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Update: Fire at Memorial Hall in Trimley St Martin - Second blaze in two nights at village - Police treating as suspicious
Firefighters tackled a blaze at a memorial hall overnight – the second blaze in two nights at a Suffolk village.
Suffolk: Project to boost region’s coastline gets lottery funding windfall
An ambitious and far-reaching project that aims to conserve and enhance Suffolk’s much-loved coastline – and enable thousands of people to gain inspiration from it – got lucky at last yesterday.
Colchester: Man robbed at knifepoint
Detectives have launched an investigation after a man was robbed at knifepoint in Colchester.
Ipswich: Work on £30m flood barrier across New Cut due to start in July
Work on the new flood barrier for Ipswich is due to start next month.
Suffolk Coastal: Leiston, Saxmundham and District Citizens Advice Bureau seeing increasingly more complex cases
A citizens’ advice bureau (CAB) is seeing increasingly more complex cases, with more families forced to seek help as wages fail to keep pace with the cost of living.
- Essex: Police custody staffing levels need to be addressed, says report
- Ipswich: Radio presenter Terry Baxter announces he will leave role
- Ipswich: Man arrested on suspicion of rape following Tavern Street incident
- Thetford: Concern for otters following diesel spill in River Thet
- Update: Fuel spillage on A14 cleared
- UK: MPs call on Government to consider splitting RBS into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ banks
- Suffolk/Essex: MPs call for ambulance service board members to resign after damning report
- Gallery: iwitness photographers out in force for summer
- Video: Publican fled to safety after blaze engulfed barn at The Three Mariners pub in Trimley St Mary
- Lawford: Humble spud set to be star of show at Tendring Hundred Show
- Video: Arson probe after blast rocks historic Three Mariners pub in Trimley St Mary
- Suffolk: Accomplice of Suffolk prison escapee is jailed for 10 years
- Gallery: Pink power as walkers raise £6k for Suffolk Breakthrough Breast Cancer with Walk on Waterside
- Ipswich: Jade Bagley, whose body was found at her Ipswich home, died of a drugs overdose
- Hadleigh: Agricultural show to feature on BBC2 programme celebrating spicy food
- Suffolk: European criminals still allowed to hide history of offences upon entering UK, one year on
- Peterborough: Sugar beet growers call for better prices
- Woodbridge: Work starts on multi-million-pound investment at Seckford Hall Hotel
- Gallery: Open day at Bentwaters Cold War Museum draws the crowds
- Suffolk: Hottest day of the year expected tomorrow – but no sun
- Gallery: Life-sized saucy seaside postcards brighten historic Harwich building
- Ipswich: Chairman hails success of John Lewis at Home and Waitrose stores at Futura Park
- Gallery: Children enjoy open day at Eye Castle after restoration project
- Suffolk: Worrying drop in number of honey bee colonies
- Ipswich: Group set up to fight terrorism and promote peace in wake of killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich
- Gallery: Families out in force for the Woodbridge Cycling Festival
- Gallery: Vintage enthusiast let off steam for charity at Great Waldingfield
- Elmswell: Little girl is visited by a large four-legged friend after her operation
- Ipswich: Orwell Walk stalwart raises £15,000 taking part for 35 years
- Ipswich: Council bosses aim to help first-time buyers get a foot on the housing ladder
- Hollesley/London: Prisoner is recaptured after going on the run
- Ipswich: Teen is attacked in attempted robbery
- Braintree: £7million affordable housing project
- Sudbury: Cinema bid gathers pace
- Stansted: easyJet to buy 135 Airbus A320 planes over the next nine years
- Sudbury: Listed building reopens after two year delay
- Suffolk: Motorists warned over driving while tired as new figures reveal extent of fatigue-related accidents
- Bradwell: Fears proposals to bring nuclear waste to Essex are the ‘thin edge of the wedge’.
- Colchester: Cyclist in serious condition as police appeal for witnesses to crash
- Suffolk: Fears tough exam could hamper university hopes
- Eye: Concern development plans for airfield will turn businesses away
- Ipswich: Murder victim Christopher Thompson was strangled after being put in a headlock, court heard
- Great Blakenham: 100 tonnes of rubbish go up in flames at Mason’s landfill site
- Ipswich/Woodbridge: Two teenagers arrested for possession of firearm at Suffolk New College
- Suffolk: Police sergeant admits charge of harassing a colleague
Politics See all
Sudbury: Cinema bid gathers pace
The last cinema in Sudbury closed more than 30 years ago, but a push by local councillors could see a new three-screen complex built in the town.
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UK: MPs call on Government to consider splitting RBS into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ banks
Radical plans to split Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) into a “good” bank and a “bad” bank must be looked at immediately as part of an urgent rethink of Government plans for privatisation, according to an influential Parliamentary commission.
Woodbridge: Work starts on multi-million-pound investment at Seckford Hall Hotel
Work has begun on the first phase of a multi-million-pound investment to expand and refurbish the Seckford Hall Hotel at Woodbridge.
Ipswich: Chairman hails success of John Lewis at Home and Waitrose stores at Futura Park
The employee-owned business sector could eventually grow five-fold if helped by more favourable Government policies, the leader of the John Lewis Partnershp said yesterday.
Stansted: easyJet to buy 135 Airbus A320 planes over the next nine years
Budget airline easyJet is to upgrade and expand its aircraft fleet under a deal to buy 135 Airbus planes over the next nine years.
UK: Rising air fares help drive CPI inflation higher to 2.7%
A surge in air fares helped lift inflation higher than expected last month to heap more pressure on households, official figures revealed today.
- UK: Costa drives first quarter growth at Whitbread
- Movers & Shakers: Cathryn James appointed MD of Norse Commercial Services subsidiaries Waveney Norse and Suffolk Coastal Services (SCS)
- Leiston: District council land sale could pave way for supermarket
- Video: Co-operative Bank to plug £1.5bn hole in balance sheet by convering bonds into shares
- Essex: South East LEP chairman John Spence receives CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Environment news
Suffolk: Project to boost region’s coastline gets lottery funding windfall
An ambitious and far-reaching project that aims to conserve and enhance Suffolk’s much-loved coastline – and enable thousands of people to gain inspiration from it – got lucky at last yesterday.
- Ipswich: Work on £30m flood barrier across New Cut due to start in July
- Thetford: Concern for otters following diesel spill in River Thet
- Gallery: Life-sized saucy seaside postcards brighten historic Harwich building
- Bradwell: Fears proposals to bring nuclear waste to Essex are the ‘thin edge of the wedge’.
- Ipswich: Flooded Elm Street likely to remain closed until at least Monday
- Otley: College’s garden bursts into life
- Tattingstone: Solar farm proposals thrown out
- Video/gallery: Burst water pipe causes water to pump out across Elm Street, Ipswich
- Suffolk: Flooding fears don’t dampen enthusiasm for coastal scheme
- Suffolk Coastal: Controversial growth plan is given the thumbs-up by inspector
- Suffolk: Wildlife warning sounded over plans for Sizewell C
- Suffolk: National Trust’s green vision at Ickworth and Sutton Hoo
- Aldeburgh: Dispute over removal of old coastal defence
- Suffolk/UK: Tree protection could be hampered by “skills gap”
- Henham: Unwanted tents to get new lease of life after Latitude Festival
- Gallery: Bright blooms come to live during open garden day in Boxford
- Felixstowe: Road collapse and park flood could be linked
- Sizewell: Defuelling reaches half way stage at nuclear site
- Sudbury: £1,000 fine warning in dog fouling crackdown
Features
Ipswich: Council bosses aim to help first-time buyers get a foot on the housing ladder
First-time buyers struggling to get a foot on the housing ladder will be given a leg up under a new initiative aimed at breathing life into the town’s housing market.
- Felixstowe: First-time buyers to build dream homes
- Review/Gallery: A pleasant family holiday with young children doesn’t have to be fantasy - as the Gaw family discovered in Woolacombe
- Which is your favourite in battle for East Anglian book prize?
- Gallery: Bury Hidden Gardens event draws thousands of people
- Colchester: Owners of rundown, empty properties could be forced to make them available for social housing
- Gallery: A food festival, Midnight Walk and a step back in time - the photos behind the headlines
- Through the Lens: It’s a dogs life
- Bury St Edmunds: Hidden gardens in the centre of town to reveal colourful secrets
- Suffolk/Essex: Thousands of younger people are being priced out of rural areas, new figures suggest
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