su 28 Apr 2024 | We failed to make it to last year's Dallinghoo Plant and Cake Sale, it's today. |
fr 26 Apr 2024 | Sometime between Sunday and Monday last weekend a New Force 150 quadbike was stolen off a trailer in an agricultural shed in Dorleys Corner Kelsale. If you have any info contact police quoting ref 37/22264/24, you can call 101. |
tu 23 Apr 2024 | last week a Butley Low Corner shed was broken into by jemmying the padlock and a large green ATCO 36 ride-on lawnmower stolen. If you have any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/22014/24, you can call 101. |
mo 22 Apr 2024 | Debach Airfield Museum opens this Sunday for the summer ... it's free entry. |
sa 30 Mar 2024 | The Suffolk Middy will light up (literally) tomorrow for Easter. Real ale bar, bunny hunts, train rides and this year they are joined by the 34th Bomb Group who were station at RAF Mendlesham. |
fr 29 Mar 2024 | ♫ Next Friday a concert at the Butley Mills Studio with a lineup including Core of the Coalman who might be old school analogue synth. ♫ |
we 20 Mar 2024 | The Eastbridge Eel's Foot and the Middleton Bell have closed but hopefully only temporarily. We've never quite made it to the Bell but visited the Eel's Foot a good few times when chum and one time landlord of the Farnham George Leon Bonds lived opposite and if memory serves Thursday nights were folk music night. ♫ |
tu 19 Mar 2024 | Yesterday between 2pm and 2:15pm tools were stolen from a van parked in Hall Road Wenhaston near the village hall. Any info about this theft please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/15220/24. you can call 101. |
mo 18 Mar 2024 | Sunday Model Railway and Remote Control show at Stonham Barns, free entry for under 12s. |
th 7 Mar 2024 | Overnight Tuesday a chainsaw, electric drill, nail gun and socket set were stolen from a works vehicle in Stonham Aspal. Security advice and any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/12622/24, you can call 101. |
mo 5 Feb 2024 | This weekend four pedal cycles worth nearly £17,000 were stolen by forced entry to a secured Syleham garage. Three of the bikes are YT Capra 27 CF Pro Race and the fourth a black 2022 Specialised Levo Turbo 29. Any information please contact police quoting crime number 37/431/24 , you can call 101. |
fr 26 Jan 2024 | Some time last weekend a white BMW 3 Series left off road at Bourne Hill Wherstead was turned over and the catalytic converter, the wheels and the leather interior stolen. Any info please contact Suffolk Police quoting crime reference number: 37/4178/24, you can call 101. |
sa 20 Jan 2024 | Last chance today to see near the coast Miss Mimple Meets The Ice Wolf. |
th 18 Jan 2024 | A white Mercedes Sprinter van registration AV13HHW was stolen overnight Tuesday from a driveway in East Green Road Kelsale. Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/3044/24, you can call 101. |
fr 29 Dec 2023 | Monday it's Steam and Light Festival at the Middy in Wetheringsett. What's more Eastern Counties Bus Preservation will be running a free shuttle from Stowmarket station. |
su 10 Dec 2023 | ♫ The free (retiring collection for church repair) Illuminati Choir concert Music for Christmas next Saturday has a wine bar and mince pies in Dallinghoo. |
th 30 Nov 2023 | This weekend will be the second of the Sudbourne Park Printmakers winter show. Free entry, the obligatory mulled wine and mince pies plus framed prints that no doubt would make very acceptable Chrissy presents. |
mo 27 Nov 2023 | The second ever Mid-Suffolk Light Railway at Wetheringsett Vintage and Bygones Fair is this coming Sunday. Tickets on the day only and the bar will be open. |
we 8 Nov 2023 shed | Sunday night on The Green Grundisburgh an outbuilding's wooden door forced and a leaf blower and a long reach hedge trimmer stolen. Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/64706/23, you can call 101. |
fr 27 Oct 2023 | Earlier this week a burglary in Farnham and yesterday a 125cc Kawasaki moto stolen in Saxmundham. |
su 8 Oct 2023 | The Shepherd and Dog at Forward Green between the Norwich road and Stowupland has builder's fencing up. Regrettable but it has been TO LET possibly since 2018. |
sa 7 Oct 2023 | Aspal Antiques at Stonham Barns and the Aspall Cyder logo certainly have a family resemblance. |
we 27 Sep 2023 | Saturday in the Harleston Swan Hotel Carvery a rehearsed script in hand reading of Pygmalion by the Harleston Players and Roughcast Theatre. Free entry (donations welcome) and a bar ... what's not to like? |
fr 22 Sep 2023 | 5-8pm tonight at the Butley Mills Studios is the private view (which isn't private) of Jim Racine's The Bird Alphabet ... on other random planets showing until 1 October. |
Last chance this Sunday to visit Debach Airfield Museum which is ending the year with a jeep run ... it's free entry. | |
we 13 Sep 2023 | Police are not treating as suspicious a dead man found in a field off Snape Road Friston but they can't identify him. Later: Police now satisfied they know who the man is. |
tu 12 Sep 2023 single vehicle | Around 12.40am yesterday a silver Volkswagen Polo collided with a tree on the Woodbridge Road B1083 Sutton and the single occupant in his late teens sustained potentially life-changing injuries. The road remained closed for several hours reopening shortly after 9am. Any info contact police quoting reference: 37/52983/23. |
su 10 Sep 2023 | ♫ This afternoon the last of six chamber music concerts in Cratfield this summer. It's SOLD OUT so you probably will be missing <sigh> the London Haydn Quartet playing a programme of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and not surprisingly Haydn. |
th 7 Sep 2023 | Suffolk Overheard: Listen, it's quite simple, the bar is open Fridays, Saturdays and Wednesdays ... except when the pool team is playing away. |
we 6 Sep 2023 | After 126 years the Framlingham Barclays bank closed the Friday before last. The cash dispenser and signs have gone, they'll need a carpenter to close the lobby doors which have no keyhole on the outside. 30 years ago Felixstowe was the nearest LINK cash dispenser to near the coast and Aldeburgh complained it had no ATM for visitors wanting to spend money ... what goes round comes round. |
tu 5 Sep 2023 | The Breath of Life by David Hare is a two hander played by Suzanna Pickering and Nina Trebilcock in this Old School Theatre production. There are three dates this month around near the coast starting Friday at The Two Sisters Felixstowe which we have yet to visit. |
mo 4 Sep 2023 | Thursday this year's Tour of Britain will be visiting much of near the coast. |
su 27 Aug 2023 | Martin & Howe's ultimate pop up today offering antiques+ in Peasenhall |
fr 25 Aug 2023 | ♫ You may have noticed that from beyond the grave Allan Smethurst The Singing Postman delivers one in three of our fortnightly(ish) email digests. Tonight at the Friston Chequers there's a tribute to him in aid of the air ambulance on a donation basis. |
th 17 Aug 2023 | Sudbourne Park Printmakers are a group of some 30 artists and has a well equipped studio in a parkland setting near Orford. Two members moving from Suffolk has created vacancies, more info and email Chrissy Norman before tomorrow the 18th. |
th 3 Aug 2023 shed | Sometime in the previous month a Yamaha YZ426F motocross bike, a chain saw, two hedge trimmers and a strimmer were stolen from a Tannington shed on The Green. Any info contact police crime ref 37/44517/23, you can call 101. |
we 26 Jul 2023 | Common Ground's autumn tour gothic murder mystery The Hellgate Club is set in 1905 Paris. Dates set near the coast include Halesworth, Woodbridge and Wingfield. |
Suffolk Myth No.101: Not everyone in Suffolk is related. | |
sa 1 Jul 2023 | As previously the Dunwich Dynamo will pass through near the coast in the early hours of tonight. |
fr 23 Jun 2023 | Yes it's been a while but a new review of house sales around near the coast and Peasenhall now has its own house sales page. |
sa 17 Jun 2023 | Today and tomorrow a weekend of open gardens in Fressingfield. Attractions include as you'd expect refreshments alcoholic and otherwise, cake of course, two markets plus sculpture and scarecrows. |
sa 27 May 2023 | As a slightly preemptive strike the Sudbourne Printmaker's summer open studios starts today and runs until tomorrow week. Refreshments of course (almost certainly with cake) and next week printmaking demos. |
su 14 May 2023 | ♫ Next Sunday at the Stonham Barns the very yellow looking Jive Aces.♫ |
th 11 May 2023 | Looking at old postcards of near the coast you might think the only thing that's changed is the cars. |
th 4 May 2023 | Disappointingly not even near the coast will a Co-op card be acceptable ID for today's local elections. |
we 19 Apr 2023 | Overnight Sunday to Monday a vehicle parked in Peasenhall Road Walpole was entered and Stihl power tools including a strimmer, leaf blower and chainsaw stolen. It's not known how entry was gained. Any info contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/22521/23, you can call 101. |
fr 14 Apr 2023 photo ID | Thursday 4 May is the local elections and you will need photo ID ... surprisingly the Tories didn't also make it obligatory to be wearing a Barbour or green wellies. The back of your polling card (now an A4 paper) lists acceptable IDs apart from the obvious passport and driving license. If you have none of these (and we know people who don't) you can apply on line for a Voter Authority Certificate but you have to do it by Tuesday week the 25th. |
su 2 Apr 2023 | The Women's Tour has frequently and rewardingly visited near the coast but regrettably it's postponed this year, it would seem mostly because of money. |
Saturday after next there's a boot sale in Dallinghoo with plants and cakes, prior pitch booking essential. | |
sa 1 Apr 2023 | A shed at St Marys Church Cratfield had the lock forced last week and a lawn mower stolen. Contact police quoting 37/17827/23, you can call 101. |
th 16 Mar 2023 | We all know that governments both local and otherwise just love anything new and vibrating but not so good about keeping something desirable going. A bit surprising then that the Katch service could return in April despite being a mini-coach functioning as a taxi with a very limited number of possible destinations. |
sa 11 Mar 2023 | Wedding venue Woodhall Manor (it's sort of between Melton and Bawdsey) has an open day tomorrow and we're impressed it has a page for Asian weddings. |
th 9 Mar 2023 | The Ukrainian family of three hosted near the coast have had at least one suitable accommodation offer but have decided to return home to Ukraine. |
Peter Brockett has pointed out another upcoming A12 road works between Bredfield and Pettistree, pretty much around here we think. | |
we 8 Mar 2023 road closures | The A12 between Ipswich and the M25 has three sets of road works with at least two likely to run into next year and signs on the A12 between Martlesham and the A14 announce road works due this month ... not easy to find details online. |
tu 21 Feb 2023 | Donkey near death experience in Kelsale Sunday. |
sa 18 Feb 2023 | Near the coast you're supposed to know by osmosis when the Framlingham Gala happens and when the Stratford St Andrew Riverside Centre is open but this table top sale Saturday week has relented to let you know it's in Clopton today. |
we 8 Feb 2023 | A lot of merging has made the page nearthec in the teens when there were Designated Public Place Orders, petrol stations closed for makeovers and the Forward Green Shepherd and Dog was TO LET ... so no change there then. |
th 2 Feb 2023 shed | Overnight Tuesday a shed in Main Road Kelsale was broken into and a blue Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorbike reg YN04 KMF stolen. Any info contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/6336/23, you can call 101 |
we 25 Jan 2023 | Between 9:00am Friday 20 January and 10:24am Monday 23 January three trees on the grounds of Kelsale Primary School were damaged. Any info contact Suffolk Police quoting crime ref: 37/4298/23, you can call 101. |
we 18 Jan 2023 | Common Ground Theatre's Christmas tour of comedy A Murder at St Mutley's continues this week in the Gallery Studio Theatre Ipswich and ends Sunday over the county border in Chipping Ongar. For certain they'll be back touring near the coast soon. |
sa 14 Jan 2023 | House sales around near the coast. |
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