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Video: Vicar boldly going . . . into the pulpit
It’s not the usual text for a sermon – but on the day that marks the Holy Spirit coming to earth, a Suffolk-based clergyman is preparing to boldly base his sermon . . . on a Star Trek!
Kesgrave/Clacton: Haulier jailed and fined £50k for crush death accident at Ipswich docks
A haulier whose lorry loader tipped over and crushed a man to death at Ipswich Docks has been sentenced to 12 months in prison and fined £50,000.
Trimley St Martin: Proposals for 66 new homes on land in Trimley St Martin to be debated by planning chiefs
A proposal to create more than 60 new homes on land in Trimley St Martin will be debated by planning chiefs next week.
Hadleigh: Tesco to make new bid for town store
Retail giant Tesco’s latest bid for permission to build a new store in Hadleigh will be discussed by Babergh’s planning committee in July.
Bury St Edmunds: The body of PCSO Sue Medcraft is found days before husband’s funeral
A well-known Police Community Support Officer from Bury St Edmunds has been found dead at her home just days before her husband’s funeral.
- Ipswich: Police find missing 13-year-old Connor Horner
- Newmarket: Race night raises £26,000 for St Nicholas Hospice Care
- Mistley: Grade II listing awarded to historic riverside quay
- Colchester: Firefighters tackle blaze in semi
- Witnesham: Chimney fire drama
- Eye: Proposals for £200million gas-fired power station are debated at public exhibition
- Aldeburgh: Friends stepping out in aid of still birth and neo natal death charity, Sands
- Suffolk/Essex: Starting salaries for new constables revealed
- Ipswich: Woman arrested after breaching terms of licence
- Suffolk: Fire crews spent almost 29 days tackling chimney blazes
- Ipswich: War on loan sharks launched as concerns raised
- Suffolk: More than 4,500 young carers is ‘just the tip of the iceberg’ say Suffolk Family Carers
- Stradbroke: Young teacher wins national award for work at village primary school
- Ipswich: Man forced to pay £853 to court after refusing to clear up dog mess
- Suffolk: Ride and run crimes are under-reported by taxi drivers
- Ipswich: Forknight fun kicks off with quayside festival
- Gallery: Stowmarket Operatic and Dramatic Society stage hit Broadway comedy The Pajama Game
- Suffolk: Youth football coach says it’s time to ban parents from the sidelines
- Suffolk FA call upon parents and coaches to blow the whistle on those that misbehave in the grassroots game
- Ipswich/Dovercourt: Campaigning son’s charity bike ride to buy defibrilator in aid of mother
- Bury St Edmunds: Amy Winehouse Foundation donates £30,000 to Focus 12 charity
- Ipswich: Man jailed and woman given suspended sentence after trying to fraudulently claim refunds from Argos
- Stowmarket: Town council oppose plans for flats at Riverside snooker and entertainment club
- Felixstowe/Ipswich: Dangerous caterpillars also found in garden at resort
- Suffolk: Chamber members opposed to withdrawal from EU but back return of key powers
- Suffolk: Chief hails the changes made to fire service
- Ipswich/ Hollesley: Police try to track down prisoner on charity shop placement
- Bury St Edmunds: Woman who died following fire is named as Katherine Douglas
- Suffolk: Curious County group to carry on running Suffolk’s tourism
- Sudbury: Gainsborough print artists stage centenary exhibition
- Stowmarket: Food bank success with fill-a-trolley day
- Suffolk: Linesman calls for a tougher stance on abuse on the touchline
- Mendlesham: Major food and farming businesses oppose proposal for £100million biomass burner
- Ipswich: Heated Question Time debate from Ipswich tonight
- Gallery: Pink ladies join forces to support research into breast cancer
- East Anglia: Archant Anglia MD to retire at end of year
- Chelmsford: Top of bus is taken off in crash
- Claydon: Man is due to appear in court charged with four offences
- Suffolk: Rise in demand for rape counselling
- Update: One arrested after helicopter search for speeding vehicle in Ipswich
- Breaking: David Beckham announces his retirement from football
- Ipswich: Urgent change MUST happen to relieve ‘unsustainable’ pressure on A&E
- Suffolk/Essex: Sex offenders should face court, grieving mum of abuse victim insists
- Ipswich: Concern after dangerous caterpillars spotted in town park
- Ipswich: Drug addict burglar who broke into church office is given chance to prove himself
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- Update: One arrested after helicopter search for speeding vehicle in Ipswich
- Update: Man leaps from balcony in apparent bid to flee police in Ipswich drugs raid - Three men arrested
- Ipswich: Man forced to pay £853 to court after refusing to clear up dog mess
- Ipswich: Tesco pulls out of Grafton Way proposal
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Candidates should stick to the issues in future
COUNTY council elections should be all about social services, education, state of our pot-holed roads, the cutbacks to our full-time fire crews, reduced library funding, museums, and trading standards.
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Every little helps with this empty town site
In a rare moment of unity, Ben Gummer and David Ellesmere have agreed that Tesco’s decision to pull out of the Grafton Way development is a blow for the town.
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Eye: New era dawns for Scout group after hut demolition
A new era dawned as the first blows were dealt to an out-of-date scout hut.
- Felixstowe: Runner ready for first-ever marathon
- Sudbury: BBC Sport to follow weight-loss marathon runner who shed eight stone in a year
- Felixstowe: Richard ready for big race after cancer fight
- Capel St Mary: Mum running for family in capital
- Yoxford: Runner hopes London Marathon could spark paralympic dream
- Suffolk: Running community defiant over London Marathon despite tragedy of Boston
- Video: Police review security around London Marathon route as relatives await news on loved ones in Boston
- Update: At least two confirmed dead as explosions hit Boston Marathon in US
- Ipswich: Four-legged friend is helping marathon runner through training sessions
- Stowmarket: Striders stepping up for marathon challenges
- Suffolk: Marathon runners slow the pace ahead of big race - but your support could spur them on
- Mildenhall: Slimmer loses 8st to run London Marathon
- Ringsfield: Minister and his son preparing for marathon challenge
- Ipswich: Words of support spur runners on in final days before London Marathon
- Essex: Husband limbers up for London Marathon while wife prepares for zumbathon
- Braintree: Milkman has bottle for run
- Purdis Farm: Marathon runner will be thinking of her grandmother during gruelling 26.2mile race
- Sudbury: Team attempts to run all the way around the Earth
- Bury St Edmunds: Teacher aims for marathon success
- Wivenhoe: Marathon challenge for charity worker
- Marathon: Your words of encouragement for runners
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