Did you know?

Many in the Felixstowe area still back the Blues, and Town's owner Marcus Evans has lost £50m over the past year leaving him 188th in the 2020 Sunday Times rich lost, with £750n, down from 174th on the list.

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Today's sunrise over the Felixstowe area: 04:54

This evening's sunset: 20:46

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Tide times:

• 02:25 0.84m

• 08:59 3.03m

• 14:46 1.14m

• 21:17 2.97m

Flood gates open.

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Today's weather:

Bright start with a few scattered clouds and day will warm up nicely Top temperature of 18c dropping down to a low of 8c.

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Orwell Bridge: Open

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Today's supermarket shop openings:

Co-op Hamilton Road – 07.00-19.00

Co-op Wadgate Road – 07.00-19.00

Co-op High Road West - 07.00-19.00

Co-op King Street – 07.00-19.00

Morrison's – (09.00 for NHS workers) then 10.00 – 16.00 (petrol 08.00-22.00)

Tesco Metro – 10.00-1600

Sainsbury's Warren Heath – 10.00-16.00

Lidl Langer Road 10.00 – 16.00

Lidl Haven Exchange 10.00 – 16.00

Respect social distancing rules and treat shop staff with respect.

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This weeks' surgeries and dispensary times:

Closed until Monday. Call 111 for medical advice.

Felixstowe Community Hospital (458820)

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Live travel updates:

Train times and traffic hold ups

Bus services:

Check here for Monday to Saturday timetable

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See which businesses are still operating with our Felixstowe Business Directory:

Add your business or community group to our Local List

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Sunday quotes:

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

Princess Diana

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Riddle: 

You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match. Which should you light first?

Previous riddle answer:

What do you call Alpacas taking over the world?

A: The Alpacalypse. 

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Pause for Thought;

Government guidance around non-essential contact, advices that public worship is suspended until further notice. 

In the absence of church services here is a thought by Andrew Coulson.

The first verse of my favourite hymn is as follows and is sung to the tune Finlandia

We rest on Thee, our Shield and our Defender;

We go not forth alone against the foe;

Strong in Thy strength, safe in Thy keeping tender.

We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.

Some people will tell you this is a funeral hymn but just to prove them wrong I can tell you that Maureen and I chose and sang this at our wedding 40 years ago.

It reminds me that we are never alone, even in these dark and difficult days when we are unable to spend time with family and friends. We can think that God is only with us when we call to him when things are not going as we would wish. Yet I believe, and the truth is, God is there all the time and doing things for us that we don't even notice or appreciate as well as at those times we call out.

As we continue in our time of lockdown be assured you are not alone and that God is by your side.

Let me know if you have a favourite hymn, and why it is your favourite, and I will arrange to get it sung once our church is able to re-open.

Andrew

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