kids Halloween events

Halloween Treasure Trail at Nowton Park, Bury St Edmunds 22nd – 30th October Follow the spooky trail and collect the answers to the clues to win a treat. Tickets £1. No booking required – just pick up your quiz sheet from the Nowton Park café. Halloweenie’s...

Halloween Recipe – Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients: 300g self-raising flour 300g light muscovado sugar 3 tsp mixed spice 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 175g sultanas ½ tsp salt 4 eggs , beaten 200g butter, melted Zest 1 orange 1 tbsp orange juice 500g (peeled weight) pumpkin or butternut squash flesh, grated...

Halloween Recipe – Blood Beetroot Cocktail

A great alcoholic drink to serve at your adults only Halloween Party! Ingredients: For the beetroot lemonade 200g raw beetroot, grated Juice of 8 lemons 200g golden caster sugar For the cocktail 300ml Aperol Ice 750ml prosecco , chilled Method: First, make the...

West Suffolk Hospitals My Wish Charity News

Our Every Heart Matters Appeal has hit its first milestone, thanks to a very kind legacy left to the charity we have reached over £100,000! Due to this generosity, we are now a fifth of the way towards our eventual target. We can’t thank our community enough for...

Sally Retires After 21 Years at Glasswells

Sally Blake, Catering Assistant in the Place to Eat Restaurant at Glasswells, hung up her pinny for the last time on Friday, after 21 happy years at the family-run home furnishings store in Bury St Edmunds to spend some more quality time at home with her husband and...

Open days…to go or not to go! by Cat Dube

Educating our children can seem like a bit of a minefield.  There are so many options out there; it is hard to know if you have made the correct decision.  As a parent myself, one thing I have learnt is that what is right for one child isn’t necessarily right for...