Bury St Edmunds

A photographer’s personal project to take portraits of 50 different nationalities living in Singapore has been published as a book to mark the former colony’s 50th anniversary.

Children from a group of schools in Bury St Edmunds are being encouraged to step up their reading in the new year.

Ingenious beakers which make it easier for patients with sight difficulties, dementia and wrist and shoulder problems to hydrate themselves, designed by a West Suffolk Hospital employee, are now being used in her workplace.

Two photography companies are joining forces this weekend for an event near Stowmarket to raise awareness for a rare but devastating illness.

Thousands of homes and £150 million of community investment will be coming to Thetford after the approval of a landmark development.

Green fingered pupils at Walsham-le-Willows Primary School will be reaching for the stars when they plant seeds which have been sent to space.

A special Christmas-themed exhibition opened at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, in Bury St Edmunds, yesterday.

Bury St Edmunds had more rainy days last month than have been recorded for any November since 1991.

A man who lost his car in Norwich for two weeks after forgetting where he where he parked it is up in front of ITV’s Judge Rinder today.

Garden power tools have been stolen from an outbuilding at a home on the B1078 in Great Bricett.

Young people in West Suffolk are being offered a lifeline towards obtaining work thanks to £40,000 of funding to Abbeycroft Leisure.

There was a mini literary festival in Fornham All Saints yesterday when the children at the Creative Education Centre met three children’s authors and launched their own novels.

Tributes have been paid to Sapiston’s ‘incredible’ and ‘well respected’ oldest resident, who passed away last month aged 96.

Sir Bobby’s Online Auction, the charity auction in memory of football legend Sir Bobby Robson, has raised £169,500 for charities.

Children enjoyed a fantasy trip into the wonderful world of Narnia when parts of Suffolk Owl Sanctuary were transformed into the magical world of C S Lewis’s tale.

Police are appealing for information following a burglary in Bury St Edmunds in the early hours of this morning.

Beauty therapy students at West Suffolk College are doing their bit to raise funds for Text Santa next month.

Organisers of a popular charity cycle ride which came to an end this year plan to buy life-saving defibrillators for businesses, sports clubs and community groups.

This week’s winner of See it, Snap it, Send it is Shirley Alexander, from Stowmarket, who said this sunrise was the start to a perfect day that she and her husband spent in Langworth, Lincolnshire.

This week’s poem, called Know Who You Are, is by John Radford.