News in Felixstowe

In part two of Nub News' UP CLOSE with Paula Bellamy, the managing director of a world wide logistics company, gives her thoughts on Brexit, Freeport East and explains why she is setting up a UK office in Felixtowe.

Paula Bellamy is never one to miss an opportunity to promote and grow Ocean Wide Logistics, and a combination of circumstances has led her to opening a UK office for the British/USA shipping firm following her success in building a headquarters in Dubai.

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Paula Bellamy - award winning Ocean Wide Logistics MD and businesswomen mentor

Nub News get UP CLOSE with Paula Bellamy who, in the first of two parts, talks about getting to the top of her industry after leaving school at 15, inspiring women, and why she has returned to her hometown of Felixstowe.

Little did a 16-year-old girl who had left Orwell High with two O-levels, realise when she jumped on her moped to start her first job in a Felixstowe shipping office that she would one day return, via the Middle East, as the managing director of worldwide logistics company.

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Cafe work progressing (Picture credit: Warren Page Pagepix)

As part of ongoing investment in Felixstowe's South Seafront, the development of a new iconic café is entering the final phase.

Barnes Construction started work on the landmark building in August last year and are now entering the final phases of the development, estimated to be completed late this summer.

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The new Green, Liberal Democrat and Independent opposition group at Suffolk County Council has unveiled its team of spokesmen and women set to hold the Conservative administration to account.

The Conservatives unveiled the new-look cabinet at Thursday's annual meeting, held at Wherstead Park to enable social distancing.

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A Felixstowe councillor has been handed a key role as adaptations were unveiled for Suffolk County Council's cabinet following the election, with big changes to those overseeing key services in highways, education and health services among others.

Steve Wiles, who was re-elected for Felixstowe Coastal in the recent county council elections, will sit as a deputy cabinet member with a responsibility for highways drainage in the new look executive.

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