Leiston

sa 9 May 2026	♫ Spring concert for the Leiston British Royal Legion Band 3pm tomorrow at St Margaret's church in the town. Tickets on the door and tickets include afternoon tea.
mo 23 Feb 2026	The George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham has returned from it's winter break and is showing until Saturday Our Town student works from all years at the Alde Valley Academy in Leiston.
sa 24 Jan 2026	♫ Pianist Annabel Thwaite in concert at Leiston Abbey tomorrow afternoon.
th 13 Nov 2025	An unexpected result (to us at least) of Coopers hardware chain suddenly ceasing to trade was Leiston lost it's only post office.
sa 18 Oct 2025	That's a very great pity, local hardware shop chain Coopers will cease trading and its six shops including Halesworth, Leiston and Framlingham close 3pm to day.
su 28 Sep 2025	Today is Motorcycle Day at the Long Shop Museum in Leiston.
th 5 Dec 2024	♫ 7:30 tomorrow night in St Mary's Sweffling the Leiston Royal British Legion is giving a Christmas Brass Concert, tickets in advance or pay at the door and include interval refreshments.
we 27Nov 2024	A car parked in Carr Avenue *Leiston* had paint and glue sprayed over the windscreen, and bodywork sometime between Thursday and Saturday.. If you have info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/66565/24, you can call 101.
fr 20 Sep 2024	Officers were called late Monday afternoon to a crash on the B1119 Saxmundham Road *Leiston* involving a white Fiat 500, black BMW 114i and a red Mercedes lorry. Both car drivers and a passenger were taken to hospital with the Fiat driver sustaining a serious leg injury. The road remained closed until 9.50pm. Any information please contact police quoting reference: 37/52937/24, you can call 101.
fr 2 Feb 2024	Regrettably des' dinners never visited the Leiston Volunteer and now like the Farnham George and Framlingham White Horse it's long gone.
sa 28 May 2022	Leiston's Jubilee Weekend nest weekend is a two day event, Friday a free 8+ hours music festival including a skate jam presumably on the skate park.
th 24 Mar 2022	The George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham High Street in support of the Ukraine is raffling Sunflower by Leiston artist Karen Lear. The £5 tickets are available from the gallery or JustGiving.
tu 9 Nov 2021 shed	Sometime between 3.30pm Saturday 6 November and 7.30am Sunday entry was forced to a shed in Seaward Avenue *Leiston* and gym equipment stolen. Any info contact Suffolk Police quoting ref 37/62696/21, you can call 101.
tu 13 Apr 2021	A sad irony that Sunday's one vehicle fatal accident was in Lovers Lane Leiston ... trees can be very unforgiving.
su 7 Feb 2021	01:00pm: With power cuts (Leiston is out at the mo') around near the coast caused by the Beast from the East's younger brother you are likely to find this UK Power Networks' incident map useful (enter your postcode).
tu 20 Oct 2020	The Leiston Long Shop reopened last week ... didn't know it had closed.
th 3 Sep 2020	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.
fr 7 Jun 2019	Wednesday evening at the Long Shop Leiston a talk on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway with and coffee available ... so a big night out then.
we 16 Jan 2019	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:)
we 19 Dec 2018	We regret missing the dry ice rink in Leiston earlier this month, it was terrific fun when six years ago a dry ice rink settled in Framlingham for one night only.
tu 2 Oct 2018	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.

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