Bury St Edmunds

A newly established community support group in Bury St Edmunds, associated with the Bury Rotary Club, had its charter evening at the Angel Hotel last week.

The Mayor of St Edmundsbury invited a group of young people who have been visiting elderly people with dementia to a VIP visit at West Suffolk House this week.

The Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust has been buzzing with activity with a computing project, UN-style debate and acclaim for its STEM work among the highlights in recent days.

It is the end of an era for five businesses on Station Hill, in Bury St Edmunds, with the onset of major development to transform the area.

A council is hoping that relocating a Bury St Edmunds park bench will discourage ‘drinkers’ from hogging it.

Marc Gilbert became a market trader after graduating from university and finding the country gripped by recession – that was about five years ago.

A campaign bus promoting an initiative to get small businesses to switch to renewable energy will be touring the Bury St Edmundfs area tomorrow (Friday).

Residents of Moreton Hall, in Bury St Edmunds, are now able to run or walk on a newly unveiled 5km circular route.

A local artist has been appointed by Care UK to produce a special sculpture for the gardens of Glastonbury Court care home in Bury St Edmunds.

Residents are to be asked to help produce a masterplan for Bury St Edmunds’ town centre to ensure its continued prosperity.

A 45-year-old man has been given a two year criminal behaviour order following repeated drunk and disorderly behaviour in Thetford.

Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed an altercation between two men in Thetford yesterday to come forward.

The highly successful Flint Rocks exhibition at Thetford’s Ancient House Museum closes in amonth but will go on tour in January.

A man was taken to hospital after a lorry overturned on the A143 in Stanton this morning.

Jewellery was stolen during a house burglary in Bridgham, near Thetford.

A great-grandmother who has celebrated her 100th birthday puts the secret to her long life down to having ‘walked her socks off’.

From kurling without heavy stones and ice to the Paralympic sport of boccia, there was a chance to get a taste of sports for those with mobility problems at a one-day event in Elmswell.

A hit musical co-produced by Bury St Edmunds’ Theatre Royal has been voted into the ‘Top 100 Greatest Musicals of All Time’.

A child fell into an exposed manhole near a youth centre in Bury St Edmunds on Thursday after ‘mindless idiots’ removed its cast iron cover.

A coroner has expressed concern about webbing clips used to ease the pressure from car seatbelts following the death of a 75-year-old man in Bury St Edmunds.