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Bury St Edmunds may not be near the coast but it is in Suffolk, was the county town of West Suffolk and is home to brewer Greene King and roller rink Curvemotion so it now has its own page, and why not.

♫ In aid of the Beehive Children's Refuge Kenya there's a flute and piano concert in All Saints Church Wickham Market 3pm this Sunday.

 JOB  In Framlingham a Delicatessen Manager wanted.

We now have 4,000 plus stock images available on Alamy.

This afternoon in Fairfield Road Framlingham two understandably grumpy walking visitors who had followed the Castle Keep signs and still couldn't find the castle and keys found in the Fen Meadow.

Looks like Facebook is uploading pix in hires by default so we've reduced the size of our uploads.  Don't mind you using our pix for editorial as long as you credit us AS A LINK, making the pix is work so for hires to acknowledge it is work a nominal charge.

If yours is a local event for local people then you won't need How to promote your event on nearthcoast. l♥ve

L♥ve it!  Half Off If your dress like Trump  FREE If your dress like Hillary.

Almost too sunny yesterday on Framlingham market and in the evening the Rendham Mummers were crammed into the garden at the back of the Sibton White Horse.  We know we're not supposed to like the French with their nice food, world cup and Tour de France but we so enjoyed last night's Gallic aristocrats we had to suppress a Allez le bleu!

Looks like it probably won't rain today St Swithin's day.

Our A to Z of ntc helps you find your town or village but unlike a satnav it kills 99% of all known germs, doesn't have a patronising voice and has never knowing undersold.

Sign in Ashbocking advertising free horse manure not surprisingly by the stables with a dressage ring right on the B1077.

That might be the glorious Helmingham Hall in the Lovejoy Christmas special.

With our relationship with the French currently being a little tetchy, the Mummers will transport you back to a time when our relationship with the French was errrrrr still tetchy.  The Rendham Mummers at the Sibton White Horse 8pm tomorrow evening with Brothers In Arms, you'll l♥ve them and it's free!

Last week thieves attempted to steal lead roofing from St John the Baptist Snape.

Now would be a good time to make us your home page.

To link to one of our internal header pages the syntax is always all lower case with no dashes or underscores; so Framlingham is www.nearthecoast.com/framlingham.

Hollesley gets its own page, and why not?

The twice monthly(ish) digest is emailing out this afternoon to the 1800+ nearthecoasters on the list ... click the Singing Postman to go on the list.

♫ Concert by duo The Blackheart Orchestra this Friday (the 13th) in Dennington village hall.  Tickets at £10 available from Binkie Andrews on 01728 638813.

A motorcyclist is in a critical condition after colliding Friday evening with a tractor and trailer on the B1119 presumably between Framlingham and Sweffling.  From the police report the farm vehicle must have been crossing the B1119?

The four advertising slots above and the two on the twice(ish) monthly digest have an availability this month.  Help yourself with a month's worth for £11.95

♫ A very large tv screen kept the fifth Stradisphere in Stradbroke informed about the football, and Saturday night we got to see surprisingly mature well known trouble makers from Harleston Red Mecca.  In the tent Das Fenster and the Alibis were a very theatrical (we like that) rockabilly type trio with stand up bass followed by Sam and the Womp who had a million selling number one in 2012 (no, we hadn't heard of them either).  The Balkan influenced trumpet (yes, we know) of Sam etc prompted dancing and intriguingly entertained us.

♫ Magnificent weather for another brilliant Maverick producing some wonderful hats and for us the newbs on the Medicine Show stage perhaps the most rewarding, especially Banjo Jen.  Our ears pricked at a very lateral keyboard solo from the Cordovas closing the Southern Sounds stage Saturday..  When we pointed out that the lead singer appeared to really fancy himself Rachael's friend asked for my long lens to get a better look and then said If I was that good looking I'd fancy myself.

Sunday a very pleasant conversation with Alan Mutimer and we suggested that Hachfest might return in its original form Hacheston Music Day ... who knows?