Sudbury

With her face painted like a peacock, the image of Keeley Thomas, 7, from Sawston is being featured on a chocolate brand in shops and supermarkets everywhere in the UK.

Getting close to nature is the aim of Daws Hall Nature Reserve, a 250-acre wildlife centre based at Lamarsh, near Bures, which is dedicated to environmental education for young school children.

A driver has been jailed for two years and eight months following a serious collision which left a woman in a coma for three months.

Two thieves stole catalytic converters from five white vans during a crime spree last week.

Nearly 80 Hadleigh residents turned out to a meeting to voice opposition to a chicane – a traffic calming measure to force drivers to slow down– in Benton Street.

An 18-year-old man from Sudbury has been charged following an armed robbery at a convenience store in Ballingdon Street.

Two friends are teaming up again to brew another batch of their signature beer all in the name of charity.

A 78-year-old man has been charged with driving offences after a collision in Sible Hedingham.

People have been invited to give their views on local healthcare issues at this year’s patient revolution conference.

Drama student Lucy Farrant has helped raise hundreds of pounds for an anti-bullying charity by organising and directing a play at her school.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) charity is holding a recruitment evening in Hadleigh to encourage more volunteers to get involved.

The six-year partnership between the Bridge Project and Waitrose in Sudbury has been honoured by Suffolk Community Foundation’s annual High Sheriff Awards.

A community minibus which is used by several groups has been sponsored by a housing association, ensuring its future and offering another service in the community.

Priest-in-charge of Leavenheath, Nayland, Polstead, Stoke-by-Nayland and Wiston for four years, the Rev Adrian Mason and his wife Maria are moving to Lincolnshire to be closer to Mrs Mason’s parents.

A church in Assington is to benefit from more than £37,000 of after securing funding from a government scheme.

A man exposed himself to a woman while she was walking her dog across Kings Meadow in Great Cornard on Friday.

An inquest into the death of an 84-year-old woman who was found dead following a house fire in Clare has been opened and adjourned.

I don’t want to worry anyone but, according to my calendar, it’s almost April.

A Sudbury primary school has raised more than £2,600 for Comic Relief after pupils embarked on 27 ways to make the world a better place.

There have been calls for community-led patrols and for women to be accompanied at night following the latest rape in Hadleigh.