Sudbury

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.

There was once a person who could not make up his mind. He did not know which way to vote. Then he died.

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The cattle returned to the pastures on May 1 following the pomp and procession of the turning on ceremony.

A butcher from Hadleigh has won a regional award for the quality of his meat – and is through to the finals of a national competition.

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A man from Sudbury has been charged with drug offences after a number arrests were made following investigations in Essex by specialist organised crime officers.

A gospel singing event in Hadleigh has been described as ‘electric’ and ‘Hadleigh at its best’ by organisers.

A 57-year-old Boxted man is due to appear at Ipswich Crown Court tomorrow charged with 42 counts of fraud.

Sudbury’s lorry park was described as full to overflowing as travellers stopped off in the town last week.