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th 6 Aug 2026	Tassie Russell's show Fragile Boundaries runs at The Watch House on Orford Quay until tomorrow. There's a large public car park on the left just before you get there.
sa 31 Jan 2026	What could be the Worlingworth fire brigade early last century and a very vintage motor car outside the Orford Crown and Castle when the road was still unmade.
tu 20 Jan 2026	Botanical artist Guy William Eves has a show finishing today at the Craft House in the Woodbridge Thoroughfare. In the spring he's showing in Orford and late summer Aldeburgh.
th 31 Jul 2025	Overnight Monday from a building site in Ipswich Road *Orford* Makita tools, batteries and tool boxes were stolen using a later abandoned wheelbarrow . Any info please contact police quoting ref 37/42682/25, you can call 101.
su 1 Jun 2025	Today a free day out at the Sudbourne Park Printmakers Summer Open Studios. In a very attractive location on the way to Orford live printmaking, print sale and goodly behaved dogs welcome.
th 13 Feb 2025 shed	Between Saturday and Tuesday a leaf blower, chain saw and hedge trimmer were stolen from forced entry into a shed off Daphne Road *Orford*. Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/ 7882/25, you can call 101.
we 29 Jan 2025	Orford on the telly.
th 22 Aug 2024	This coming three day bank holiday weekend is the 37th Havergate Adventure. Hourly a boat from Orford Quay to the island where a RSPB volunteer guides. Free binocular hire and at the end a sit down and refreshments to buy... you need to book.
sa 13 May 2023	Vehicle documents were stolen from a car parked near Castle Green *Orford* between 7:00pm last Wednesday and 8:30am the next day. Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/27216/23, you can call 101.
fr 31 Mar 2023	Between 12am 26 Sunday and 12pm 29 Wednesday March someone scratched and dented the bodywork and window of a car parked in Gedgrave Road Orford. Any info contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/18354/23, you can call 101.
su 4 Dec 2022	Orford Festive Makers' Market until 4pm today.
mo 21 Nov 2022 Doreen Carwithen	♫ Radio 3's Composer of the Week is Doreen Carwithen, this could be of interest to near the coast because her 1964 Suffolk Suite has movements Orford Ness and March: Framlingham* Castle*.
th 10 Nov 2022	Confusedly we expected a cheery Susan Calman eating free ice cream but Villages By The Sea Orford had an over gesturing man presenting with the intensity of a war zone visit ... this is the third series?!
fr 16 Sep 2022	♫ Ness Fest tomorrow is at Sizewell not Orford and on the cliffs? Perhaps in Suffolk the definition of a cliff is not that ambitious and has anybody found a Fest programme?
su 10 Jan 2021	Pleasant Green is near the coast's own Sleepy Hollow and is between Orford and Rendlesham.
mo 29 Jun 2020	Set in East Suffolk police whodunit DI Gwen Danbury has no strong sense of place but name checks locals like Orford and Woodbridge. Copper Gwen Danbury is played by the delicious Annette Badland who was so wonderful in Little Voice.
fr 3 Jan 2020	If Count Dracula's ship the Demeter had got lost in all that fog and landed at Orford instead of Whitby after his first meal in Suffolk the Count would know a lot more about tractors.
we 15 Nov 2017	♫ The Black Tower is a BBC parable play with music by Benjamin Britten and first broadcast in 1946. According to at least two Radio 3 presenters it was recorded in Orford church.
tu 31 Oct 2017	This Saturday Slow Living Market at Orford Town Hall.
mo 15 May 2017	Saturday afternoon an Orford traffic incident involving two Volkswagens ended with a VW Bora hitting a tree and injuries to both driver and passenger ... trees can be very unforgiving.
sa 9 May 2015	9:30am Starting right now the fourth annual Orford real food market.

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