Early this morning a woman driver on the A12   was waved down and robbed by four youths.

5:10pm    Two males have been arrested.

Mouth to Mouth's all girl production of Bill's The Taming of the Shrew starts its garden tour of near the coast at Otley Hall tonight with other venues including the Laxfield Low House, Yoxford and Latitude, more info here.  (We've heard that Fish has been typecast as Captain Jamy in their Henry V at Eye Castle this August.)

With members from Leiston, Sweffling, Framlingham, Wickham Market, Beccles, Snape and Kelsale the Leiston Writing Group meets all round near the coast, more info here.

Beach art and underwater animals for kids tomorrow near Wrentham ... we had to look it up, it's between Southwold and Kessingland.

If local mp Sir Michael Lord becomes the next speaker then much of near the coast won't have much choice at the following election because by convention the major opposition parties do not contest the speaker's seat ... mind you as deputy speaker he doesn't vote now anyway.

Yesterday's European elections certainly brought out the nutters (Animals Count?  We've yet to meet one that could reach double figures), indeed the ballot paper could have easily been confused with a tabloid newspaper.  In the traditional slow Suffolk manner we're still waiting for the results.

11:45am  Results starting to come in

12:55pm  District bye election result

01:05pm  Beginning to look pretty bad for Labour, an indy got in here

01:15pm  Turnout across the county looks like upper 30s%

01:50pm  Good news for trees, a Green in at Upper Gipping

02:05pm  Lib Dem Caroline Page takes Woodbridge from Tories

02:10pm  Finally, in Ipswich a Labour win

02:11pm  49% turnout in Woodbridge for Caroline Page's win

02:16pm  Conservative Patricia O'Brien returned for Martlesham

02:40pm  2nd Lab win, in Ipswich again but squeaky close (13 votes).  Still waiting for the east and south of the county

02:47pm  Michael Bond (Con) in at Wickham.  He's a district and parish councillor too, what a busy chap

02:50pm  Bored now

02:52pm  European election results not until Sunday night

02:57pm  A Green came second in Bungay and Halesworth

03:07pm  Looks like east Suffolk doesn't want anyone looking at them funny so they've voted Tory too

03:31pm  Ah well that's it.  All of near the coast is dark blue apart from the single orange hold out of Woodbridge, going to butcher a hub now.

It's always a pleasure to watch dancers up close and we ... more here.

A second trailer has been stolen near the coast.

Ed_the_Greek rang NHS Direct about this swine flu, it was a terrible line all he got was crackling.

According to NHS Suffolk the UK is among the most prepared countries in the world to deal with swine flu ... doesn't sound very British ... being prepared.  Apparently Gloucester Old Spots live in terror of catching man flu.

Perhaps for the very good reason it's no longer two tone horns emergency speak now calls it the full disco not blues and twos.

The Co-op won't take a cheque any more?!

Lugubrious sort of East Anglian Sir Clement Freud has died aged 84.  He was a liaison officer at the Nuremberg war crime trials after WWII and was deeply concerned that new crimes were being created on the hoof ... so no change there then.

What's hot near the coast?  Pirate names ... Gahr!

Live Paris-Roubaix ici ... lots of splits in the bunch ... motorbike has just hit spectator(s?) ... five away, 50k to go ... more here

Remember the supermarkets are closed today. 

A government minister with an impossible name visited the coast of near the coast this week and then went away again.

This Twitter lark is really infecting near the coast, Southwold Police now tweeting.

Including us eight people so far have shown us theirs and Gamekeeper has described his.

Are you brave enough to show us yours?

Here's an unhappy thought, you're a child or young person who has to be taken in to care in a hurry.  What do you have?  What do you own?  Probably just the clothes you're wearing so Project Linus UK through the Suffolk Police Victim Care Centres gives you a quilt.  What a brilliant idea!  It seems no accident that Americans call a quilt a comforter.

Terry Byford is the new police superintendent for the Coastal Suffolk and Waveney districts.  Bit of a bio here and infuriatingly this is the only pic we have of her; ah well, maintains the mystery.

For whatever reason house sales do seem to have slowed a little near the coast, maybe not in Woodbridge.

Personally we think that dog walkers who don't clean up after need to be culled, slightly more moderate views on the board.