Opinion

Let’s be honest: the A14 trunk road is hard to love. Living here in Suffolk, we can’t avoid it. It’s as inescapable as it is unpredictable. Sometimes it delivers us to our destination with the unerring precision promised by the satnav or our online journey planner.

I was in the supermarket the other day when I overheard a conversation that always makes my heart sink. Two people were discussing who they would be voting for in the General Election and one said: “I won’t be voting for anyone – they’re all the same.”

Before you get into marketing your business or organisation, whether off line, on your website or through social media, you need to identify your business goals.

Suddenly plunged into darkness on an isolated footpath in the pouring rain, it was one of those moments I severely doubted the wisdom of my actions.

The first of the season’s nightingales have arrived back at traditional sites across the county. This migrant songster is a familiar species, at least in name, appearing throughout some of our best poetry and nature writing.

Back in May last year, I raised the potential for communities to become energy generators. The big Big 6 energy companies currently dominate the consumer energy market but changes are happening with some far-reaching opportunities for community energy ownership. Let me tell you more…

I first stepped foot inside the Haberden five years ago – and I knew straight away it was a club going places. I met a committee member who was proud of what had already been achieved and fuelled with ambition about progressing further and further.

It appears that 1970s style is coming back into fashion which, for some, will foster feelings of nostalgia while other (younger) folk will perhaps welcome it as ‘retro chic’.

On the streets of Great Britain, a conspiracy is taking place. It is the conspiracy of selfishness.

Food waste has been at the forefront of my mind since last month’s Zero Waste Awards when I had the opportunity to find out more about an interesting project in London called FoodSave.

One of the important parts of Suffolk’s Police and Crime Plan revolves around roads policing and how we make can our roads safer.

There is something very special about a sunny spring morning. There’s no mistaking the fact that Nature is well and truly wide awake!

So here we are again. Election fever is raging once more. Or perhaps, if you’re immune to it all, it’s not so much a fever as an irksome political sniffle.

While it might feel as if spring has only just arrived in East Anglia, for some of our birds the season is already well-advanced.

A report out last week suggests that living near a Waitrose or an M&S can significantly boost your home’s value, by around 12 per cent if the Lloyds Bank study is to be believed.

What gets people’s backs up the most? Simple – rubbish.

My lovely long bank holiday weekend was spent dancing around in the living room, getting overly egg-cited at the Easter trail at Ickworth House or simply revelling in my son’s Lego or new Hot Rods toys.

Like members of rival middle-aged boy bands, all four major party leaders this week climbed aboard their tour buses and started to make their way around the country. And unlike boy bands, they targeted marginal constituencies and started talking policy with the local electoral punters.

I recently interviewed the poet and author Michael Rosen. We talked about poetry and how parents might be discouraged by its seemingly rarified air.

In recent years, bank holidays have seen us pull up the drawbridge, hiding away at home to escape the hordes quite rightly out enjoying an extra day off.