At the Family Fun Day in Aldeburgh it was great fun to watch the local law enforcement community re-enact that jolly royal wedding copper ... but also poignant as so many of the public services present are under threat.  We were particularly impressed by two dudes beavering under the Suffolk Roadsafe awning fixing bikes, they also teach bike maintenance and road safety ... not just cones in the playground safety but culminating in four hours on the public roads safety.  They are paid for by the county council, have had to reapply for their jobs and don't know if they'll be around next year.

Mobile phones pinched in Aldeburgh and Leiston.

Yesterday in Aldeburgh for the 10th literary festival Virago founder Carmen Callil was in conversation with Mary Chamberlain author of Fenwomen, Virago's first publication.  There was little sound as late we approached the auditorium doors, audience must be pretty thin we thought ... the Jubilee Hall was packed!  Afterwards a very impressive if slightly secret bookstall at the back of the stage and then across the road to the cinema gallery for Justin Partyka's shot on real film photos for the new Full Circle edition of Fenwomen.

The Aldeburgh White Lion shut for refurbishment last month and won't re-open until 21st April.  Now that is a refurbishment.

Be warned, the cops are going to enforce parking in Aldeburgh.

Braving the cold, and it was cold outside Leiston Library this morning, Steve Smedley was leafleting borrowers to remind them about next Saturday's demo outside the library and that unless something gets sorted the library along with another 28 including Aldeburgh, Debenham, Framlingham, Saxmundham, Stradbroke and Wickham Market will close.

Some house sales in Aldeburgh earlier this year.

Welcome to new advertiser Suffolk Exhibitions who have a show in Aldeburgh next month, thank you to the Greener Garden Guy who has renewed his Leiston slot and it's cost Damini Custard just £1.21 to support ♫Russian girlie symphonic metal band Blackthorn (we like the synchronised hair twirling).

A red Hyundai in Aldeburgh had it's rear window smashed yesterday.

Crikey!  Surprisingly nobody seriously hurt in this Aldeburgh one yesterday but the police have asked for witnesses.

Today Matthew we will be mostly localising the weather ... as always not as straight forward as it looks ... sorted, Woodbridge done ... Aldeburgh, Felixstowe, Halesworth ... that'll do for now.

Skimmers found this morning on cashpoints in Framlingham, Leiston and Aldeburgh ... so that's why a police car outside Barclays this am ... or not.

The hustings last night in the Aldeburgh parish church organised and chaired by the Reverend Nigel Hartley in an ultimately neutral manner were not

surprisingly very well mannered.  Perhaps a little surprising the church was easily 7/8s full to see all five Coastal Suffolk candidates (and what a wonderful opportunity to see them in one hit) make a short pitch (the Rev had an apologetically polite time's up beeper) and then answer questions.  We left after an hour but are assured all remained even tempered ... more pix

That must have been quite a fire at the Aldeburgh boatyard yesterday morning, there's nothing left of the main boat shed.  A bystander who was there told us that being a boat yard there were many gas bottles on the site.  More pix here

House sales a bit quiet in Saxmundham and Aldeburgh.

'Bitching and bickering' in Aldeburgh apparently, well that's democracy.