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Our A to Z of ntc helps you find your town or village but unlike a satnav it kills 99% of all known germs, doesn't have a patronising voice and has never knowing undersold.

Now would be a good time to make us your home page.

To link to one of our internal header pages the syntax is always all lower case with no dashes or underscores so Framlingham is www.nearthecoast.com/framlingham.

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Past astonishers have their own page.

The twice monthly digest emailed out this afternoon ... click Jess Postman Pat's black and white cat to get yours.

Hoxne gets its own page ... and why not?

Women's american football gets its own Facebook album.

ASTONISHER No.45:  When Johnny Cash gave an unlikely concert at San Quentin state prison fellow country singer Merle I'm an Okie from Muskogee Haggard was in the audience serving two and a half years for burglary and an attempted jail break.  Equally unlikely (though perhaps not in the USA) Haggard was pardoned in 1972 by then governor of California Ronald Reagan.

The page Halesworth 2013-11 has morphed into Halesworth 2014-11.

SRN Nearthecoast is in, fiddling with her tick list, pen and prescribing guidelines but still listening (apparently) at ntc@nearthecoast.com or text 07970 865730

Last Friday we spent well over an hour resetting and then configuring a new to us camera body so it would behave as we expected.  Saturday after a photo op in Bedfordshire we found it had defaulted to jpg not RAW file format.  Sunday in Norwich we noticed it wasn't auto-rotating portrait orientation pix.  MORAL: Expect it to take time to sort out new kit.

Don't know your way round nearthecoast?  You need the A to Z, it's FREE, it kills 99% of known germs plus you don't have to pay and display or walk through the gift shop to get out.

Worried too many people might turn up at your coffee morning?  Garden fete?  Swingers' party?  Don't do promotion on nearthecoast then.

The twice monthly(ish) digest emailed out today to the 1900+ nearthecoasters on the list ... click the Singing Postman to go on the list.

The village doesn't support you?  Promote your event on nearthecoast.

Planning a witch ducking this year?  Promote your event with us.

We now have 4,000 plus stock images available on Alamy.

Anorak Alert No.26:  Lovely Olivia Coleman voice overing Secret Life of the Zoo says the newly born vampire crabs (Geosesarma) are 5cm in size.  The babies are absolutely tiny, they may not even be 5mm.

Click the birdy to see our Twitter feed.

Throwback Thursday:  Twelve years ago today much of Framlingham had been without gas for some 24 hours, it happened again four years later.

09:40am: The bulletin board will be unavailable for a bit while it is upgraded.

12:02pm: That could have been easier, in the end did a full re-install, board's back.

Bury St Edmunds may not be near the coast but it is in Suffolk, was the county town of West Suffolk and is home to brewer Greene King and roller rink Curvemotion so it now has its own page, and why not?

Dr Nearthecoast is in and listening at ntc@nearthecoast.com

How to promote yourself on nearthcoast.com.

Rural Myth 77:  In Suffolk a homosexual is a man who likes women better than tractors.