Opinion

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.

April sees the annual singing contest between the bird life at Suffolk Wildlife Trusts Lackford Lakes nature reserve as they sing to attract a mate.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I heard Cllr Colin Noble had been chosen as the new leader of the Conservative group on Suffolk County Council.

Hats off to Nantwich Education Partnership which this week ruffled a few feathers by announcing it will report parents to the police and social services for neglect if they allow their children to play computer games rated for over-18s .

I caught a repeat on television a few days ago of the 1986 movie Mosquito Coast. In the film, Harrison Ford decided to uproot his family from their comfortable home and relocate them to a Central American jungle.

As we roll over into a new month so we see an upturn in the arrivals of spring migrants. One of the first birds to arrive back in any numbers is the sand martin, the earliest of our breeding hirundines (swallows and martins) to make its return – see www.birdtrack.net