Opinion

The courts have a tough job these days – what was acceptable a few years ago is frowned upon today. Sentencing options are broad but there are guidelines and, in reality, little wriggle room for today’s finest legal brains.

I didn’t make any new year’s resolutions as we started 2015 after failing in previous years to stick to anything. But now I am wondering whether I should have.

In my last column, I covered some tips for managing your time on social media better. Before heading off, here are a few more things to keep in mind to ensure you are more efficient with your participation and continue to work toward your goals.

It is during these cold winter months that we are treated to the sight of starling flocks and their amazing pre-roost ‘murmurations’.

It is the simple things in life that bring us most pleasure. For me it is bed time stories with my kids. In my head it will be a time when we can sit together with the children in their pyjamas, hair brushed, listening attentively to the book we are sharing.

Green Light Trust first started its Community-owned WildSpace programme more than 25 years ago, inspired by the co-founders’ (of GLT) trip to Papua New Guinea where a chief in one of the villages of the Hunstein Range asked: “What are the trees like where you come from?”

A month on and my new regime is taking shape. Twice a week I travel into work by bus, two days I share the car with my wife and one day I try to work at home. Well, that’s the plan.

My wife is a switch. Now I appreciate I could describe her in so many sweeter ways, especially with St Valentine calling in 15 days.

The story we carried last week about Maisie Boreham retiring from Mulleys after 43 years took me back to my own days ‘on the buses’.

It’s over. After months of furious personal statement writing, pestering for references and agonising over campuses and courses and cooking, it’s over. The UCAS (that’s University and College Admission Service) deadline has passed.

Well, January delivered some interesting food waste news. If you managed to catch Channel 4’s Friday Night Feast, with Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty, you would have witnessed some promising food waste rescues that could inspire national change, particularly within supply chains and the hospitality sector.

I take my hat off to Kate Oakley.

Freezing temperatures and laying snow can cause problems for some of our wintering birds, a pattern repeated more widely across Europe.

When I was five my family moved to Thorpe Morieux from London. The move meant my brother and I were no longer able to walk to school as we had in the city.

At the start of every new year we all look forward with optimism and confidence; we welcome change and renewal – something I think we are rather good at in Suffolk.

If you want to engage with your customers on social media, you should spend time on social media sites every day. One of the comments I hear most often regarding social media is that it’s so time-consuming.

At the start of this year we were faced with the difficult news that Mildenhall US Airbase would be closing. This news came as a shock to many, not only from West Suffolk but across the UK.

In the 15 years I’ve edited the Bury Free Press, I’ve not come across John Room House. So let me explain.

It was the closest I will ever get to being Maverick. Laying face down at the front of a KC Stratotanker as a fighter jet was refuelled in mid-air.

For more years than I care to remember, I’ve happily poured milk over my breakfast cereal and tucked in, free to think about the day ahead, listen to the radio or read the paper.