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Adrian Ramsay, Waveney Valley MP, calls out animal welfare 'moral failing' in Government debate

2 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Joao Santos |João D. Santos

An MP has called on the Government to introduce extra animal welfare protections due to an ongoing 'moral failing' during a debate. Adrian Ramsay, MP for the Waveney Valley constituency, led the Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday in a bid to introduce extra animal welfare safeguards in farming. He told MPs recent undercover footage of piglets being violently killed at a farm in Lincolnshire was not an isolated incident, and instead a symptom of failings in policy and enforcement.
Renewed appeal for Bury St Edmunds bus service bid to replace Marham Park Flyer

2 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Ash Jones

A renewed appeal has been made for residents of a Bury St Edmunds estate to support a funding bid to replace an axed shuttle bus service. Last Tuesday, SuffolkNews reported on a £234,000 funding request made to Suffolk County Council to replace the Marham Park Flyer.
A14 Orwell Bridge outside Ipswich will see lane closures tonight ahead of seven weeks of repair work

2 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Ash Jones

Lane closures will be in place on the Orwell Bridge tonight ahead of seven weeks of work later this month. National Highways has warned that one lane in both directions on the A14, between junction 56 at Wherstead and junction 57 at Nacton Interchange, will be in place from 8pm today until 6am tomorrow. The closure will allow teams to carry out surveys.
Ipswich RAF veteran Neil Fellingham joins the force’s leading charity as ambassador

2 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Ash Jones

An Ipswich RAF veteran has joined the force’s leading welfare charity to share his experiences of how it changed his life after he was medically discharged from service. Neil Fellingham, 36, served in the RAF for 12 and a half years as a weapons technician before he suffered a broken leg, with complications, in a car accident.
Suffolk Mind opens up 2025 Colour Rush event at Trinity Park, Ipswich, to more people than ever

2 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Ash Jones

A mental health charity has opened up its annual colour run event to more people than ever this year. Suffolk Mind expects its 2025 Colour Rush event, in Trinity Park, Ipswich, on October 4, will raise more than £25,000 this year. The charity is doubling its capacity this year to allow for 1,000 people to be doused in colour on its 1.5 or 3 kilometre courses.
Ipswich MP Jack Abbott welcomes funding for five schools, including Parkside Academy and Springfield Junior School

2 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Ash Jones

An MP has welcomed news that five schools in Ipswich are set for urgent repairs after receiving a share of hundreds of million of pounds in funding. On Friday, SuffolkNews reported that the Government had allocated £1.2 billion for upgrades to schools across England – including Suffolk. In total, £470 million of this cash would go to schools, with 19 in Suffolk set for a share of the pot. Jack Abbott, MP for Ipswich, said he had long campaigned for upgrades to schools in the town.
Last phase of major 265-home development at Eye Airfield unanimously backed by Mid Suffolk District Council

3 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Joao Santos |João D. Santos

The last phase of a major 265-home development at a former airfield has been unanimously backed. Earlier today, planning committee members in Mid Suffolk discussed plans submitted by Persimmon Homes for the second and final phase of a 265-home development, 53 of which affordable, on land south of Eye Airfield. The council granted outline planning consent for the whole project in 2018 for up to 280 homes, before giving reserved matters permission for its first phase in 2022.
‘Disability should never be a barrier to success’: New café to ‘open doors’ for people with learning difficulties

3 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Ash Jones

Inspired by their son with Down syndrome, a Suffolk family is set to open a café with the aim of helping prepare young people with disabilities for work. Stuart and Sharon Hobbs have set up 21 Young hearts CIC, which will open a venue at Unit 20, The Square, Martlesham Heath, over the coming months. Their son, Kyle, has Down syndrome and had issues getting a job after he finished at West Suffolk College.
Bury St Edmunds small plate restaurant Blue Fig to open second venue, in Market Hill, Woodbridge

3 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Ash Jones

A popular Bury St Edmunds small plates restaurant is marking an exciting new chapter as it gears up to open a second venue, in Woodbridge. Blue Fig will move into the unit formerly occupied by The Galley, at 21 Market Hill, on June 16. The restaurant, which offers modern Mediterranean dishes inspired by tapas, has been popular since it opened in Abbeygate Street, Bury, in February last year. The kitchen team will be led by head chef Wayne Gray, who has moved from its other eatery.
Plans to turn former Sports Direct gym, in Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds,into builders' merchant approved by West Suffolk Council

3 days ago | suffolknews.co.uk | Joao Santos |João D. Santos

Plans to turn a former gym in Bury St Edmunds into a builders' merchant have been approved, but councillors say their hands were tied. West Suffolk councillors discussed the plans this morning, submitted by K/S Cratfield, to turn the former Sports Direct Fitness site, on the Moreton Hall estate, into a national builders' merchant. The former gym, in Easlea Road, closed in August 2023 due to high costs after an application to turn it into a retail space was refused in January of the same year.