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That's a very great pity, local hardware shop chain Coopers will cease trading and its six shops including Halesworth, Leiston and Framlingham close 3pm today.

The next available supporter slot is now, it will take your link well into winter.

We saw Common Ground's The Tales Our Mother Told! in Framlingham last weekend and it was an intriguing mix of drama and entertaining farce.  The show continues to tour including Woodbridge, Campsea Ashe and Laxfield.

The fortnightly(ish) digest emails out this lunch time ... click Jaques Tati to get yours for free ...

Next month to mark Framlingham Community Library's centenary there will be coffee mornings for the weekend 8-9th November and a time capsule to bury in the Hay Loft.  Preloaded free SIMs are available at Suffolk Community Libraries as part of the Good Things Foundation's digital inclusion.

  The year moves on. the clocks go back Sunday week.

One off tonight at the Bungay Fisher Theatre A Whistle Stop Tour of the Second World War.

♫ Upcoming afternoon Framlingham Concerts are pianist Maiko Mori this afternoon and in November the Woolf String Quartet.  Buy a ticket online or by email before 12 Nov and be entered into a draw for free tickets to the four spring concerts.

Dennington Stay and Play are fortnightly (next one tomorrow week) get togethers for pre-school children and their carers from Little Oaks Playschool.

UPDATE: Harvey was found safe and well last night.

23 year old Harvey Jasper was wearing a black puffer jacket when last seen leaving his Framlingham home Sunday evening.  His black VW Golf was later found towards Dennington, it had been in a collision but was locked and there was no evidence anyone had been hurt.  Any info you can report online or call 101.

Suffolk Overheard:  I've never been to Ikea or the Suffolk Show but I've got two Coop cards and I'm thinking of getting a Cockapoo.

Support for Windows 10 ends Today but you can extend it to 2026 for free.

Friday morning outside Halesworth library following an earlier iroad rage incident a man in his 60s was punched three times and the key fob in his car snapped off and taken.  The suspect a cycling white male in his early 50s has black hair and was wearing a black jacket, black bottoms and a black helmet.  A woman with the suspect had blonde hair, pink cycling shorts and a pink helmet.  Any info contact Halesworth police quoting crime number 37/57541/25, you can call 101.

The wonderful Magda from Lead Balloon moonlighting as Dr Marion Boyle in Alan Partridge last night (05:34).

Saxmundham's Social Bar is living up to it's name with nights this month for board games, tapas, quizzing, vinyl and of course for Halloween a Spook Nite.

Tomorrow week Wingfield Barns are showing Akenfield , made in 1974 and shot in and around Charsfield.  Later in the month there's a Ceilidh Light Party and a Yoga Day Retreat.

A home in Judith Avenue Knodishall was broken into towards the end of last week and two watches stolen.  Any info please contact Lowestoft CID quoting crime reference 37/ 56185/25, you can call 101.

7:00-10:30pm tomorrow evening it's Bar Night in the Parham village hall.

The Sweffling Printroom will be open Saturday and Sunday for the show Dissent and Displacement.  We visited last month and the artist Monica Petzal was engagingly informative and there might be tea and cake.

♫ We fear that the Sweffling Jam Parties won't be returning.

How nice, Windows 11 is going to make all our lives better.

♫ Jerry Joseph on stage at Maverick last year is returning to near the coast playing the John Peel Centre Stowmarket Sunday.

Here at nearthecoast batteries are no longer available for a Toshiba laptop and a HP laser printer probably because of a Win 10 update has started refusing to listen to a desktop ... the hidden cost of tech.

♫ Saturday Funk, Soul and Motown from The Optics with bar and fast food in St Peter's Sibton to help fix the roof ... nice.