Police have made a third appeal about Woodbridge man 73 year old Anthony Smith who has been missing since the beginning of the month.  As he is fond of walks by the Deben river users are being asked if they've seen anything that may help.

Worryingly 73 year old Woodbridge man Anthony Smith is still missing and there have been no sightings despite searches by police and the Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue team.

It's the 180th Woodbridge Regatta tomorrow.  Does it matter if it rains at a regatta?  Probably.

73 year old Anthony Smith from Woodbridge has been missing since Thursday afternoon, he has several conditions which need regular medication and his disappearance is out of character.  You may particularly be able to help if you travelled by train between Woodbridge and Ipswich Thursday.

12-1pm tomorrow Carol Twinch will be signing her new book The History of Ipswich at Woodbridge Books.

Henry the V at the Seckford Theatre in Woodbridge next week.  Always liked Henry ever since we were marched round the corner from Coopers' Company to the Mile End Odeon to watch Larry showing off.

John W Mills is a sculptor with an impressive cv, the new sculpture garden at Woodbridge School contains seven of his life size pieces.  The garden's formal opening last night was a pleasantly full monty affair with string quartet, many jugs of Pimms, Lady Tollemache cutting the ribbon and head teacher Stephen Cole telling us that the first years used to run to get their lunches but now they walk past the garden.  The sculpture in the garden will change and favour artists with a Suffolk connection.

Antiques Roadshower John Bly in Aldeburgh over the weekend and now Eric Knowles will be in Woodbridge this Sunday giving free valuations.

When the Cross Quays pub reopened in Woodbridge some ten years ago a chum who had moved to Woodbridge as a teenager in the early 70s told us he'd always known the building boarded up.  This card from the 60s (judging by the cars) shows that it was once a wine merchants called Barwells and there were traffic lights!  Barwells were a Norwich wine merchants bought by Tolly in the 1920s and there's still a Barwells off license in Cambridge.

It was looking dramatically picturesque by the tide mill in Woodbridge last night but there was no shelter from the wind coming off the water and it was perishing!  So we went for an aimless along the Thoroughfare where the Georgian Coffee House and Mrs Piper's have survived, Viccy Wine's had liposuction and its roots done to become the Wine Rack with WH Smith next door in matching dark blue livery, Currys are long gone as is, regrettably but perhaps inevitably, the camera shop at the opposite end of the Thoroughfare.