It's been a couple of years since we've seen a cyclocross and though a nice day may have helped there was impressive youthful involvement at the Amis Velo Supacross in Colchester. Old timers complained like they always have that the course was too easy and national junior cross champion and Ashfield cum Thorpe resident Hugo Robinson won the event with such ease it must have been little more than a training run for him ... mind you he still broke sweat.
mo 10 Oct 2011
The Keeper's Daughter are taking Dracula! out on the road again and this time on the roads of three counties starting at Cotton Friday night. Laughs, scares and pretty girls ... what else do you want?
th 6 Oct 2011
The Good Pub Guide has awarded the Middleton Bell value pub of the year.
mo 3 Oct 2011
Brandeston, a horse and trap at the Framlingham Station and Marlesford railway station on post cards.
sa 24 Sep 2011
Wednesday afternoon a boiler and five radiators were stolen in Walpole.
mo 8 Aug 2011
A yellow pressure washer was stolen from a barn in Sudbourne at the end of last week.
sa 30 Jul 2011
The freeWestleton wild flower festival in the village hall started yesterday and ends tomorrow, and it's the divine Buster Keaton in the feature length comedy The General at the Aldeburgh cinema tomorrow evening.
th 21 Jul 2011
In even the quietest places, two chain saws stolen in Bruisyard.
sa 16 Jul 2011
WANTED RSPB Minsmere (the ad says Westleton) a learning manager.
th 14 Jul 2011
Bikes stolen from an unlocked shed in Marlesford and unpleasantness at Thorpeness golf club.
su 19 Jun 2011
Open garden 2:00-5:00pm this afternoon at The Barn Westleton (there's a cocktail garden!) and open gardens in Sibton 11:30am-5.30pm.
we 18 May 2011
The Apache helicopter back again last night but this time around Horham.
tu 7 Jun 2011
Needham Market Limes definitely back ... The Outlaws play in October.
we 20 Apr 2011
A 70 year old local man has died after a road accident in Swilland earlier today.
fr 8 Apr 2011
A £2,500 reward for Coco the young cocker spaniel bitch missing from Laxfield and recently spotted in Bruisyard.
fr 1 Apr 2011
Jewellery and euros stolen in Woodbridge (again) Tuesday morning and police want to contact a Wangford good Samaritan in a black 4x4 ... and now more dubious goings on in Wangford.
th 24 Mar 2011
Sandy gutters and Scots pines so clearly the Sandlings but Butley? What road is it exactly?
♫ Looks like the death of another near the coast music venue, the Needham Market Limes will close today unless it gets a saviour.
th 20 Jan 2011
Despite chillingly miserable rain there'd already been a customer for PCSO Kevin Mann at the mobile police station in Walpole when we visited last Monday morning, Nat Bocking had visited to tell Kevin about the handy bus project. The Suffolk Coastal mobile is one of four in the county and has on board Internet, loads of info, can postcode free bicycles and mobile phones and has a computer linked speed indicator display to monitor traffic speed through a village. We followed Kevin on to Rendham but the rain seemed even more penetrating so we didn't hang about.
tu 18 Jan 2011
Damien Payton isn't so much gamekeeper turned poacher as gamekeeper turned grocer. His Village Grocer van takes a week to visit villages between Felixstowe and Southwold and the0n starts again. Despite the chilling and insistent rain yesterday he was parked up on that corner in Walpole where there used to be a pub and his fruit and veg looked in good shape ... more pix