Home and lifestyle news from Bury St Edmunds
Your Summer Capsule Wardrobe
Holiday packing can be a real challenge, especially if you’ve only got limited baggage allowance. It’s tempting to try and cram in your whole wardrobe but, with a bit of smart shopping, you can get a set of complete looks to take you from beach to bar without breaking...
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Independent Custody Visitors
Ensuring that people in police custody are treated properly is a statutory duty of Tim Passmore, the Police and Crime Commissioner and he relies on an army of volunteers to help him monitor the welfare of people who are detained in police stations in Suffolk. Tim...
garden confidential
By Paul Clarke Paul's Plants of the Month: COSMOS Cosmos come in a wide range of colours including pink, white or purple. They are usually grown as annuals in this country and are easy to grow from seed. Cosmos will grow easily in most garden soils and are best grown...
Wolves all in place for Bury St Edmunds art trail
Finishing touches have been put on 26 wolves that form an art trail around Bury St Edmunds for the next four months. The trail officially opened on Monday 20th July with the creations placed in prominent locations around the town centre. Each of the wolves, 20 of...
The WI Inspiring Women
Our July meeting was on the hottest day of the year and our Chairman introduced the new sound system. We were updated on the WI Centenary Annual Meeting held at the Royal Albert Hall and it was interesting to hear about seeing the Queen, other members of the Royal...
Home Covert plant survey
By Woodlands Way Home Covert is a woodland planted around 250 years ago, next to Moreton hall Community Centre. Home Covert is owned by St Edmundsbury Borough Council, with management as a community woodland by Woodland Ways. In the north- west corner are two craters,...
lords and ladies By Woodlands Way
Lords-and-Ladies’s is a plant in the lily family, with its arrow-shaped leaves found commonly in shady places in Moreton Hall such as woods and our retained rural hedges. There are two varieties, one with spotted (‘maculate’ leaves and one with unspotted...
The Moreton Hall Community Centre News March 2015
Hello all, welcome to the March update from the Moreton Hall Community Centre and Club! Hello everyone. Lovely to see the nights getting shorter and the mornings getting lighter! I hope you’re all getting ready for Spring, which means that we are making plans for our...
Christ Church Moreton Hall March 2015
We are now beginning the season of Lent which is one of those periods of time that seem to persist despite the apparent decline in interest in Christianity. Lent is forty days, and six Sundays, starting on Ash Wednesday on Easter Sunday. They are supposed to remind...
Bury Rugby Club to move to semi-professional status
Bury St Edmunds RUFC is set to move its 1st team squad to a semi-professional status next season. The decision to make this change has been taken after much consideration by the Club’s Executive Committee, in line with the Club’s ongoing development programme and...