Bury St Edmunds

An annual football match between the Plastic Trade Frames Bury and District Sunday League and the Glasswells Bury and District Saturday League raised £1,000 for the My WiSH Charity.

Firefighters rescued a child locked in a vehicle in the arc shopping centre car park in Bury St Edmunds earlier this evening.

Dignitaries, service personnel and veterans were among those who gathered in the Abbey Gardens for a series of remembrance services to honour those who fought for our freedom.

About 300 people attended a thanksgiving service to celebrate the life of former Bury St Edmunds teacher and community activist Sue Tamlyn.

Mina is a pretty little pussy cat aged around four and a half.

An award-winning bricklayer, who helped set up an Over-60s club in Bury St Edmunds and inspired a Bury Free Press campaign, has passed away aged 78.

A petition has been launched to bring a derelict hospital back into use and stop it falling into further disrepair.

An exhibition of work by contemporary British artist Mark Cazalet was launched during a conference at St Edmundsbury Cathedral.

A 33-year-old man from Thetford has admitted causing the death of another man in a road crash last month.

Today is Armistice Day and an 11am service at the town’s war memorial was the first event in a weekend of remembrance.

The first part of the £15 million Bury St Edmunds Eastern Relief Road is to open this afternoon - paving the way for thousands of new jobs and hundreds of homes.

A top Bury St Edmunds school is celebrating a ‘good’ rating from Ofsted after making significant improvements in the last two years.

Staff at a pre-school are ‘over the moon’ after receiving a top rating by education watchdogs.

Robert Donovan ‘stole’ electricity to grow £18,000-worth of cannabis but has had just £1 confiscated by a court.

A teenager fought off a man who tried to steal her handbag in Thetford yesterday.

An early-Christmas market once again proved popular last weekend with around 600 people dropping by.

Businessman Max MacGillivray has departed this week on his 12,000 mile adventure to educate children and their families on where fresh produce comes from.

A Stowmarket man who had sex with a schoolgirl has been locked up for three years after his initial suspended sentence for the crime was quashed.

Youngsters were treated to a combination of sci-fi and Lego last weekend when they visited Moyse’s Hall Museum to take part in a drop-in craft workshop.

Bury St Edmunds’ Pea Porridge restaurant has retained its coveted Michelin Bib Gourmand award for the seventh year running.