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we 31 Dec 2014	At midnight 54 years ago today the farthing stopped being legal tender. We always thought it charmingly suitable that the smallest British coin had the tiny (the goldcrest is the smallest) British bird the wren on the reverse ... so comforting that the wren population, around Framlingham at least, seems to be increasing.
tu 25 Nov 2014	In memory of Fish we've been meaning to mention the Samaritans' Twitter app Radar launched at the end of October. The app monitors friends' Twitter accounts for concerning words or phrases. The Samaritans have since suspended the app.
su 2 Nov 2014	9:02am: The bulletin board will be going offline while we upgrade the software. 9:54am: The bulletin board is back, in the end we had to do a full re-install so the board style is the default subsilver ... we're leaving it like that.
we 1 Oct 2014	We've just taken the the road tax disc off our state of the art news gathering vehicle and feel liberated ... so far today though we've seen only one fellow liberatee.
fr 26 Sep 2014	Anorak Alert 7: We rather like the unlikely l♥ve child of Wee Jimmy ... more here
su 3 Aug 2014	Guess Who 33?: Congratulations to flinders for their first win by naming writer Charles Hamilton, one of his many noms de plume was Frank Richards who created the fat owl of the remove Billy Bunter.
th 24 Jul 2014	Don't know whether to be pleased or embarrassed but Alamy have licensed one of our pix to the Daily Mail Online ...
sa 19 Jul 2014	Fish's ashes were scattered on the River Blyth at Southwold on Tuesday 15 July.
mo 14 Jul 2014	The weather will be back soon on the right, not that your interested but it went after the cURL library also went missing when Apache had to be re-installed after a MySQL upgrade ... see, we said you wouldn't be interested ... weather's back ...
fr 4 Jul 2014	Very flatteringly Aldeburgh Music is following us on Twitter ... perhaps it was us being nice about Musicircus?
sa 28 Jun 2014	If nothing else Bobby Womack thank you for this ... RIP
we 11 Jun 2014	♫ Darren's got his beard on • Hip hip hooray • Darren's got his beard on and the sun is out to play! ♫ Delighted to welcome back fishmonger and Framlingham market supervisor Darren Smith. Next available advertising slot is now 8th July at just £14.95 for two months ... did we say we get around 17,000 visitors a month?
sa 3 May 2014	des' dinners has been restructured but nobody has lost their job.
fr 28 Mar 2014	Coming Soon! Top ten reasons for not reading lists.
tu 25 Mar 2014	Life eh?
mo 17 Mar 2014	We get papped on Framlingham market ... #Suffolk eh?
fr 14 Mar 2014	Well that that didn't last long ... today our Alexa ranking is 300,005:)
th 13 Mar 2014	Halesworth 2010 to 2007 has got its own page and encouragingly our Alexa ranking has gone under 300,000
th 30 Jan 2014	We were saddened to discover that Ming the Merciless' head of security General Kala died early last year from pancreatic cancer ... as far as we know she was never on the council but probably would have fitted right in.
we 29 Jan 2014	Finally mobile phone users visiting us have a friendlier and stable(ish) if not polished version to see, the left and right side bars disappear and the central content is bigger so it can be read without zooming. It's been tested on four different telephones, comments welcome by email, Twitter or Facebook.
we 1 Jan 2014	No doubt in 2014 the East African and councils will continue to rot your brain, nothing will get cheaper and you'll need your passport to buy a box of matches or a potato peeler, but there'll still be proper beer and coffee to drink, Suffolk Roller Derby should bout publicly, we'll get a record 20,000+ monthly visitors, we stick to VB46 and despite all the expected building near the coast it will remain a pleasant place to live, safe for trees and the barking ... bring it on 2014.
su 24 Nov 2013	We can't help thinking that if The Beatles hadn't been called The Beatles but Four Nice Young Men from Liverpool and surrounding villages they may have got more public funding but probably wouldn't have been quite so significant.
tu 15 Oct 2013	There are now three advertising slots where there were five giving even better value. Next available advertising slot is 2nd November ... did we say we had nearly 20,000 visitors last month?
tu 17 Sep 2013	Five years ago today the wheelie bins arrived in the now disappearing industrial south of Framlingham and what was then Solar was ram raided by four balaclavaed men.
fr 13 Sep 2013	Ray Dolby has died aged 80 ... that's the A, B and C of it.
su 8 Sep 2013	Mr Smith found these left overs from from a good time by the A12 near Saxmundham. Is there a Burger King in Sax now? We were surprised to discover there's a Costa Coffee and no Mr Smith, the babe on the bench is not Benjamin Britten although it is a bloke.
tu 18 Jun 2013	This web site was six on Saturday, our first report was reubens opening at the back of the Framlingham Crown. We forgot all about it being our birthday. Can we forgive ourselves? Well at least we avoided the urge to have dodgy clip art of balloons, cakes and sprinkles.
th 6 Jun 2013	Downton Abbey's Countess of Grantham is creeping up to being our first 1,000 viewer on Flickr.
fr 31 May 2013	Linda in Framlingham Stationers know who Guess Who 28? is because we told her.
mo 6 May 2013	The right side bar has been and will continue to wobble while we give it a bit of a makeover to improve the way it loads.
th 28 Mar 2013	Today: The Easter (the weather may not be quite as horrendous as feared for the weekend, our giant icicle on the front door has morphed into an icy front step) digest has just gone out to the 5,000+ ntcers on the list ... click Postman Pat to get your FREE copy.
su 10 Feb 2013	Even Vlad the Imp has gone quiet over Guess Who 27?
tu 1 Jan 2013	Hopefully in 2013 Fram market will stay a place to rant and drink good coffee, Earl Soham beer from its new Debenham brewery continues to bring its own joy, Maverick gigs proceed triumphally, the new Wickham co-op discovers it's not Ikea, roller derby find its way to coastal Suffolk (it's found Bury St Edumds and the west of the county with a US military connection), the great and good get greater and gooderer and near the coast continues to madden and endear. Happy New Year!
th 27 Dec 2012	We've established that Guess Who 26? is not Lester Piggot, French and an ex-sportsman, and it may be in a large town near Chelmsford but what a job op for a young snapper.
tu 4 Dec 2012	Alexa.com is telling us our pages are loading a bit faster since our server change/upgrade and publishing is certainly a lot faster, so worth all the pain ... maybe.
mo 3 Dec 2012	Guess Who 25? is Ethel (wasn't Just William's sister called Ethel?) Jane Cain the first voice of TIM the speaking clock, next Guess Who? in a month or so.
	Because of the server change towards the end of last month we had to knit two sets of statistics together to find out last month you visited a record 94,579 pages, thank you.
sa 17 Nov 2012	We could be a bit wobbly at some point in the future as our host migrates us on to a shiny new operating system.
mo 15 Oct 2012	Our Twitter feed on the left there is back which is nice and a pig stolen in Dunwich ... not as funny as it sounds.
tu 4 Sep 2012	Hopefully you've noticed we look slightly different? Not only that but the 400+ pages of nearthecoast.com should be looking more consistent but in true Suffolk style there are still bloody minded outposts of this website fiercely resisting change.
th 31 May 2012	We're very pleased to welcome back advertiser Warne's taxi service and we were told Boulevard Blond is no more but Mrs Warne and most of the BB lineup are putting together a Motown influenced band.
th 3 May 2012	ASTONISHER No.23: Johnny Johnson's big afro was in fact a wig ... you're going to have to trust us on this one. ♫
th 12 Apr 2012	That's taken forever importing on this day in but it's here now, look up your birthday and see what happened on that day in history.
tu 20 Mar 2012	Stackton Tressel now has it's own page, as does Little Mutterings.
fr 6 Jan 2012	<blush> Our pic of Truly Thumptious and son has been nominated by US website Derby Life for Most Derby photo 2011.
fr 23 Dec 2011	Have a good one ... see you on the other side ...
sa 6 Aug 2011	Because of hyperactive spambots we are reluctantly blocking new registrations by hotmail and gmail email addresses on the bulletin board.
mo 1 Aug 2011	A record 11,000+ visitors to this web site last month, perhaps it was our coverage of the Dunwich Dynamo?
sa 4 Jun 2011	07:03pm What's that Skip? You don't know what oxymoron means? Don't worry Skip, it's a self contradictory figure of speech ... like ethical banking, sports personality or technology centre.
th 31 Mrr 2011	The truly green alternative to the iPod; no batteries, no USB, no mains adaptor, just wind it up and off it goes and on ebaY starting at just one penny!
fr 24 Dec 2010	Log your first Christmas row on the bulletin board so we know we are not alone.
su 15 Aug 2010	ASTONISHER No.1: Country singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson has a boxing blue from Oxford ... we know but it's true.
su 30 May 2010	We found the thing to click so ntcers can now tag our FaceBook photies.
mo 2 Nov 2009	Thank You! In the end we had a record 9,409 visitors last month, perhaps if you tell more of your friends about us (or if you're a property developer tell that bloke at the district council you take out for a drink ... again) we'll get over 10,000 this month?
sa 31 Oct 2009	We don't have even a 100 followers on Twitter, and some of those we do have are distinctly dodgy, but WeFollow reckons we're the fifth most influential tweeter in Suffolk ... mind you we've got a ways to go to catch up with Food Safari; and thank you everybody for a record 9,134 visitors in this month so far.
we 15 Jul 2009	We love NearTheCoast, thanks for latest update, Rachel, Diss
sa 18 Apr 2009	We can now tweet from our mobile phone ... if we could find it that is.
mo 10 Nov 2008	Tomorrow's weather is cancelled.
th 23 Oct 2008	You may think we're geeks but just imagine what the uber geeks at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) must be like. W3C specify standards and if your web site complies with the standards it makes the world a better place. We spent a very long day yesterday replacing embeds with objects, includes with nested templates, nowraps with nowrap="nowrap"s and eventually we ended up with a wobbly looking home page but it did W3C validate ... just made a small change and it doesn't validate anymore, well see for yourself ... then we fixed it.
tu 14 Oct 2008	Thanks to Karl Semple's conversion script the bulletin board is more or less back. (PC Jeff Burt's wedding pics have gone missing but we can soon upload them again.) God bless you Karl Semple. May all your children be pension fund managers.
mo 13 Oct 2008	11:00am We seem to be sorted but have to wait for name server changes to spread to your service provider. 01:30pm Ah well, mother said there would be days like this. The database software on the new host is a newer version than the old host and attempts to post on the board get an error message. Working on it ... they're probably thinking about a siesta in Salobreña right now (it's 2:30 there) ... we would say "Apologies for any inconvenience" but we're not Icelandic and we don't have your money ...
sa 11 Oct 2008	The bulletin board admins are putting up a team for Man in the Hat's Screen and Music quiz next Thursday at the Framlingham White Horse.
fr 25 Apr 2008	Board mod Amanda Frost is on Weakest Link Monday night and yes, it was recorded weeks, if not months, ago.
tu 4 Mar 2008	Last month on average someone visited this site every 2 minutes 37 seconds, which was nice.
tu 22 Jan 2008	It's gone 1pm and we've sent out the first Near The Coast monthly digest. If you don't want it just reply STOP and we will.
tu 11 Dec 2007	Amongst other things Reporters Without Borders maintains an annual worldwide press freedom index. The UK comes in 24th behind Iceland and Norway equal first but ahead of USA (Land of the Free) in 48th position.

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