News in Felixstowe

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The United States Congress dubbed her 'the first lady of civil rights' and 'the mother of the freedom movement'.

There are many similarities between Felixstowe and Falmouth. Both are coastal resorts popular with visitors searching for sun, sea and sights to enjoy when not on the beach.

Distance aside, another thing will separate them as from Wednesday when Falmouth enjoys being in Tier One, and all the freedom that means, while Felixstowe will be in Tier Two, and the tears that brings to many publicans and family groups.

Millions of unsafe items of PPE coming into Suffolk have been seized by Trading Standards – as more than half of checked items failed to comply with UK safety laws, shock new data has revealed.

Suffolk Trading Standards reported that it examined 11million goods between April 1 and September 30 this year across more than 400 different product types coming through the Port of Felixstowe, 10.9m of which was PPE.

Councillors at a Suffolk authority will not be upping their allowances this year – but a fresh review is set to take place within two years.

A review of councillor remuneration last took place at Suffolk County Council in 2017, with current rates agreed to run until the end of March 2021.

A cyclist has died following a serious road traffic collision in Trimley St Martin last Thursday, police have today confirmed.

Emergency services were called at 10.45am on Thursday 26 November, to reports of a collision involving an Iveco lorry and a bicycle on Kirton Road, at the roundabout with the junction of the A14 eastbound off-slip.

November 2020 AONB Monthly update

1. River restoration work near Bures

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St Andrew is also the patron saint of fishing and golf, which shows he was not all bad.

Felixstowe gym-goers and swimmers will be able to pump away again from Wednesday.

East Suffolk Council and Places Leisure will re-open of Brackenbury Leisure Centre, Deben Leisure Centre, Felixstowe Leisure Centre, Leiston Leisure Centre and Waveney Valley Leisure Centre, when the second lockdown ends and the county goes into tier two on December 2.

On this day in 1530, Suffolk's very own Thomas Wolsey, English Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, died en route from York to his imprisonment in the Tower of London of natural causes. Wolsey, the son of an Ipswich butcher, who stripped Felixstowe monastery of its goods and banished its monks. But it was his failure while Cardinal to secure permission from the Pope to divorce Catherine of Aragon so he marry Anne Boleyn, that caused his downfall. Wolsey did though help introduce a new tax system when he was Chancellor, which meant a shilling in every pound was taxed, so the poorer paid less and the rich more.

Today's Felixstowe sunset: 15:48

A man has died of a heart attack at Felixstowe port today, it has been confirmed.

Police were called to the scene just before 8.30am today by the East of England Ambulance Service and a number of police vehicles stayed at the Port of Felixstowe all morning.