Sudbury

A community came together this week in remembrance, but also in celebration, of its fundraising efforts nearly a year after the death of a much-loved teenager.

The new owners of the Henny Swan have fallen in love with the pub and the freedom Suffolk offers them after two decades in the capital.

Sainsbury’s in Sudbury has raised £1,317 for Compassion as part of the chain’s local charity of the year scheme.

Police in Sudbury and Great Cornard are trying to educate drivers to avoid bad parking.

An original Gainsborough – bought for just £7 – will go on show at the artist’s birthplace museum next month after being bequeathed to the nation.

Parents from Gosfield and Wakes Colne joined a demonstration in Chelmsford on Tuesday against school transport cuts.

In his first official role as mayor of Sudbury Jack Owen was given the honour of handing out vouchers to 39 residents for food or clothing in a tradition going back more than 350 years.

Guinness World Records has accepted an application for a record attempt of the fastest time to fillet a salmon at the Taste of Sudbury Food and Drink Festival on June 14.

A choir that walked out following the sacking of its musical director will perform for the first time this weekend under a new name.

South Suffolk’s new MP has got straight to work campaigning for rail improvements, one of his main election pledges.

The owner of the historic Bull Inn at Thorpe Morieux has failed in a bid to stop the premises being listed as a ‘community asset’.

Hadleigh residents are being asked to give their opinions on new play equipment.

Ruth Adams enjoys the sweet smell of success at All Saints’ Church in Little Cornard. A flower festival, held at the weekend, raised £2,000 for the church and for Suffolk Oxygen Therapy Centre.

Local Assington businessman and now Conservative MP James Cartlidge was elected as the replacement for Tim Yeo on Thursday as the seat remained a Tory stronghold.

Canon Martin Seeley, who will become Suffolk’s most senior Church of England clergyman next month, was today ordained as a Bishop at Westminster Abbey, watched by more than 1,600 people.

A bid will be made to buy Hadleigh Corn Exchange after Suffolk County Council decided to sell the building.

After waiting 260 years for a regular bus, the residents of Sible Hedingham got to enjoy three services a day last week after the parish council part-funded a new route to Sudbury.

The 176th Hadleigh Show takes place at Holbecks Park on Saturday.

A host of retailers and businesses in Sudbury are displaying more works by local artists than any other town in Suffolk as part of Art About Town - a prelude to Suffolk Open Studios.

If you think the Championship play-off between arch-rivals Ipswich Town and Norwich City is tense enough, spare a thought for the Sharpe household in Winfarthing, near Diss, where husband Neil and wife Angela hold season tickets for the opposing teams.