PEOPLE living in an area of west Suffolk have the longest life expectancy in the country, it was revealed today.
PEOPLE living in an area of west Suffolk have the longest life expectancy in the country, it was revealed today.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show residents of the Moreton Hall estate in Bury St Edmunds has a combined life expectancy for men and women of 93.4 years.
That is almost 26 years more than the area with the worst life expectancy, the Middlehaven dockland area of Middlesbrough.
The Care Quality Commission said the discrepancy between the two highlights the health inequalities between the richest areas of the country and the poorest.
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