mo 14 Jul 2025 | The Constabulary run Safe Rider Workshops at their Martlesham HQ for much of the year. With special deals for under 25s next month's workshop is 8-9 August.
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su 13 Jul 2025 | Beautiful evening last night at the Wingfield Barns for Roughcast's outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet and despite the play's tragic conclusion Joe Edwards-Gill as Mercutio was still getting laughs. Just one more chance to see the star crossed lovers.
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|  Maggi Hambling has generously donated her painting Night Waves to the Sudbourne Park Printmakers. Oil on board and measuring 37x27cm a striking image that is being raffled to fund buying the Printmakers' two etching presses. The draw closes tonight at midnight.
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sa 12 Jul 2025 | ♫ Jess Gillam at the Snape Maltings in August hasn't sold out but the Klezmer Party is. More £10 tickets will be released Thursday next week ... think we've got that right.
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| The village doesn't support you? Promote yourself on nearthecoast. |
| Thursday evening on the B1119 a black VW Golf travelling from Framlingham towards Little Lonely Farm crossroads left the road. The driver sustained minor injuries but one passenger sustained injuries described as life threatening . The driver was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while over the drug limit. Any info contact Thomas.IVES@suffolk.police.uk quoting CAD 358 or you can call 101.
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fr 11 Jul 2025 | 2-4pm Saturday 2 August at The Firs Church Street IP13 0AT Marlesford Village Fete. Free entry, easy parking with live music, games and teas. More info from lesleybensley@gmail |
th 10 Jul 2025 | The tractorati quiver with antici ... pation for the nearthecoast digest which will email out this afternoon. To get your free copy click on Alan Smethurst The Singing Postman. ♫
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| Company Here & Now have an improv comedy show in Woodbridge 1st of August but through out this month they have classes mostly in Woodbridge,
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| Suffolk Overheard: When she was little she threw her tamagotchi in the duck pond because it kept interrupting her.
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| Blimey, the end of last week was busy; private views in Sax and Fram, an opera recital and the three day Maverick festival. ♫ |
we 9 Jul 2025 | Fish was a good friend to both this web site and his chums on and off line. In 2011 he committed suicide ... still very much missed Fish 1972-2011.
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| We know at least four of the castings for SHAKE's Akenfield. |
tu 8 Jul 2025 |  Roughcast Theatre return to Wingfield Barns Saturday with two shows of Romeo and Juliet. Be warned the company's production of Pygmalion last year sold out, tickets for R&J here and here.
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fr 4 Jul 2025
 | The Sudbourne Printmakers have a 10 day show of new work (including a rather nice view of Castle Street) starting today in the Old Theatre Framlingham. All are welcome to the private view 5-8pm tonight for ♫live jazz♫ and refreshments. 
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| ♫ This year's Maverick has a Cajun flavour with tonight Ruben Moreno closing the Peacock stage but we'll be multiplexing ourselves with Sara Petite closing the Barn. |
| The next Fram Station Session is 4-9pm tomorrow Pizza, Drinks, Music & Friends. |
th 3 Jul 2025 |  Originally from Wales Hilary Barry has been a Suffolk blowin since 2016 and her oil on canvas paintings have grown a strong sense of Suffolk place. Hilary's Green Issues show at the George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham runs until Saturday 19th.
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| Our Alamy stock photo portfolio is now over 10,000 images.  |
we 2 Jul 2025 | ♫ Saturday the Phoenix Singers concert Opera Stars is just that with four impressive guest singers and a programme that includes Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. Staged in the Framlingham College Theatre tickets online here.
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| Dishearteningly the excellent More Or Less (around 13:56) finds that the first claim in Adam Curtis' SHIFTY is wrong. Thatcher wasn't behind in the polls and she didn't make that speech then. |
mo 23 Jun 2025 Akenfield | From Benhall the SHAKE Festival is touring their adaptation of Akenfield around near the coast this autumn with venues including The Old Theatre in Fram and the Halesworth Cut. With a cast of local people hopefully there won't be any accents sloightly on th' huh:)
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sa 21 Jun 2025 SHIFTY | Only available on iPlayer SHIFTY uses archive film with a text commentary to cover Thatcher to New Labour and supports Marina Hyde's view about nutters. .png) |