Hospice Girls Night Out is back for its eighth year

A charity is appealing for women to support its biggest annual fundraising event. St Nicholas Hospice Care is holding its Girls Night Out sponsored walk, in Bury St Edmunds, on Saturday 10 September. Since it started in 2009 the fundraising walk has raised more than...

‘Flight of Peace’

Mount Road/Lady Miriam Way roundabout, Bury St Edmunds The ‘Flight of Peace’ sculpture is a symbolic remembrance of the gallant American servicemen based at, the adjacent, Rougham airfield during World War II. These men prepared, maintained and flew B17 Flying...

Headteacher’s delight at strong staff appointments for new school

The man at the helm of Bury St Edmunds’ newest secondary school has hailed the calibre of his teaching staff after making several key appointments. Six months before Sybil Andrews Academy opens its doors to students, Andy Prestoe has expressed his delight at how the...

A Marathon Task

Why is it that so many ideas seem so very plausible when a glass of wine or pint of ale has been consumed and why oh why at that point too, does your mind suddenly think your body is 20 years younger than it actually is?   This thought has gone through my mind on...

Christ Church Moreton Hall

In the Christian calendar we now are in the middle of Lent, a season of preparation.  In recent times it has been marked by many imaginative projects including doing a good turn every day or giving a small donations to different charities.  Almost everybody knows the...