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Fraud charge man declines to give evidence

May 22, 2013

A Redgrave businessman has declined to give evidence to a jury considering claims that he was involved in a £5.7 million international fraud.
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Children’s half-term fun

May 22, 2013

Breckland Council is working with Parkwood Leisure and Norfolk Wildlife Trust to put on half-term events.
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Village set for first ever beer festival

May 22, 2013

Feltwell’s first ever beer festival will take place on the August bank holiday.
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April flowers bloom in May for Chelsea show

May 22, 2013

Suffolk’s award winners at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week are old hands but were showing plants they have never shown there before.
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Donation will improve playtime

May 22, 2013

Lakenheath Primary School has been given a £200 donation to improve playtime.
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Crohn’s suffering pupils at a Bury St Edmunds school hand cash to research and support charity

May 22, 2013

Both Sophie Springett, and Nick Copsey have missed school as they struggled with Crohn’s Disease – now they have raised cash for charity.
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Seckford Foundation’s Free School bid for Ixworth is approved

May 22, 2013

A bid to set up a Free School on the site of a soon to be axed village middle school has been given the go-ahead by the Government.
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Residents raise fears over building deal

May 22, 2013

A charity has moved to ease residents’ fears they could be left without a community meeting place after it moved closer to sealing a £60,000 deal for a council building.
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New mayor drives through Tesco’s doors

May 21, 2013

St Edmundsbury’s new mayor has been treated in hospital after crashing his car through the doors of his local Tesco Express this afternoon.
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Car crashes into Tesco store’s doors

May 21, 2013

A 70 year old man is being treated by an ambulance crew after a car went through the doors of a Tesco Express.
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Thieves raid garage to steal four sets of BMW wheels

May 21, 2013

Alloy wheels worth more than £12,000 were stolen off four BMWs in a dealer’s compound at Fornham St Martin early last Wednesday.
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Woman dies after being hit by car

May 21, 2013

An 84-year-old woman who died two months after being hit by a car has been named by police.
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Crime wave hits Vauxhall cars

May 21, 2013

Police are appealing for information after five cars were tampered with in neighbouring Bury St Edmunds streets last Saturday night.
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Square dance club in Bury St Edmunds celebrates 25 years

May 21, 2013

The Cathedral Squares Square Dance Club in Bury St Edmunds has celebrated 25 years.
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Date for annual street fayre set

May 21, 2013

Traders in Bury St Edmunds’ St John’s Street just made the deadline to apply for a street closure order in time for their June 22 street fayre.
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Getting into the swing for Great Gatsby

May 21, 2013

They may not quite have the style of Leonardo Dicaprio’s Jay in The Great Gatsby, but the staff of Bury St Edmunds’ Abbeygate Picture house got into the spirit of Scott Fitzgerald’s story by dressing in 1920s fashions for the opening ...
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Application for 93 homes

May 21, 2013

Persimmon Homes has applied for planning permission to build 93 homes on an 8.75acre site next to Mr Fothergill’s Seeds in Gazeley Road, Kentford.
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New mayor gets his hands dirty in Bury St Edmunds

May 21, 2013

Barely two days into his new role as mayor of St Edmundsbury, Cllr Terry Buckle from Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds took part in a litter pick on the Horringer Court Estate with a church group.
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Shocked community pays tribute to Bury St Edmunds PCSO found dead days before husband’s funeral

May 21, 2013

A shocked community has paid tribute to a PCSO found dead at her home in Bury St Edmunds just days before her husband’s funeral.
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Two men fined £150 for hunting fox with dogs

May 21, 2013

Two men have been fined £150 each after being found guilty of hunting a fox with dogs.
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SBV vaccine out on farms this summer

May 21, 2013

Livestock farmers should have a vaccine for Schmallenberg virus (SBV) this summer.
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