Leiston

Late Saturday night a silver BMW 325 collided with a Leiston tree giving the driver potentially life changing injuries ... even quite small trees can be surprisingly unforgiving.

Wednesday evening at the Long Shop Leiston a talk on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway with tea and coffee available ... so a big night out then.

2019 is the centenary year of Aldeburgh Cinema (Leiston pre-dates them by five years) and they will be marking it with their first Cinema on the Beach.  We've been told that Aldeburgh folk would dress up for the cinema and be greeted in the foyer by the manager wearing evening dress, a floral buttonhole and smoking a cigar ... these days celebrities don't feel the need for a tie:)

Lowestoft had a fishing village known as The Grit, and Poetry People are presently touring a words, music and film show about the lost village.  You've missed it in Halesworth but there are shows this week in Ipswich, Leiston and yes Lowestoft.

This coming weekend the Leiston Long Shop Museum is appropriately having a Steam Punk Spectacular.  Patrons are encouraged to dress in keeping.

Missing Leiston teenager Amelia Cook found safe and well yesterday.

Prescription drugs and cash stolen in a Leiston street robbery yesterday.

05:02pm: The A1904 Aldeburgh Road is closed near the B1069 junction for Knodishall and Leiston because of a serious road accident.

An unlocked lady's shopper bike stolen in Leiston and a load of tools taken from a van in Stratford St Andrew.

Break-ins and they were break-ins in Rendham, Leiston and Framlingham over Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Catalytic convertor marking at Appleton's garage Leiston 10am-2pm today, we're reasonably certain it's free.

Surprising assault in Wickham Market Saturday afternoon and an internet safety evening at Alde Vally High School Leiston tomorrow evening.

A free concert at the Eye community centre this noon, tonight a Valentine's disco in Saxmundham and free sports for youngsters in Leiston but sadly tonight will also be Chelsea's last (for obvious reasons) dispensing liquid therapy at the Framlingham Station.

WANTED in Leiston a CAD CAM operator by a company making trim for classic British cars.

In the first episode of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads (1973) Bob and Terry (who has been away in the army for five years) bump into each on train and Bob mentions owning a car, Terry clearly doesn't really believe him.  Difficult to remember there was a time when it wasn't a statutory right to own a car.  We suspect this peloton are leaving Garrett & Sons Leiston, the cyclist in the middle is signalling, no hands to his right and a flat cap on the motorcyclist.

Concern for 76 year old Brian Nunn who was last seen in the High Street/Cross Street area of Leiston at 8:15am this morning ... he isn't wearing a coat.

3:30pm:  Thankfully he's been found.

Leiston police station holds an engraved man's watch that was found on Aldeburgh beach August last year.  They suspect the watch may be of sentimental value and perhaps the loser is a visitor who has returned to the Suffolk coast this summer?