News in Felixstowe

Trimley Red Devils under-10s boys' team are celebrating receiving a Team Sport Award donation from UK Power Networks

Youngsters at a Trimley St Martin football club have been kitted out for the new season thanks to power company funding.

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William Willett, the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay's Chis Martin published leaflet in 1907 called The Waste of Daylight, encouraging people to get out of bed earlier. That led to the introduction of moving the clocks back an hour in the UK. Hopefully you enjoyed an extra in bed this morning as the we moved back into GMT, by going back an hour at 01.00.

Nub News gets UP CLOSE with David and Amanda Fisher who have taken over at the White Horse in Old Felixstowe, and discover the hard working couple are old school publicans who listen to what their customers want and enjoy a laugh.

It takes a special sort of couple to take on and open up a new pub in these times but if anyone can make it work, it is going to be David and Amanda Fisher.

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You can go aboard a Concorde at Duxford's Air Museum.

A cafe in Felixstowe has responded to the government's failure to provide school meal vouchers during the half term by providing pupils free lunches.

Owners of Crescent Cafe are offering a a half term special on a free lunch for all children in primary school years when an adult buys a one main meal.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested by police in connection with an allegation of exposure near to the seafront in Felixstowe.

A woman complained to police after claiming a man had exposed himself to her as she was walking through the Felixstowe Seafront Gardens in Undercliff Road West on Tuesday at around 6.25am.

Government plans to bypass the planning system in order to set up lorry parks for queued up port traffic post-Brexit have been dubbed "a disgrace" amid fears locals will not get a voice.

Parliament set up statutory powers on September 24 which means it will not have to go through the usual planning permission process in order to set up lorry parks in time for the ending of the UK transition period for leaving the European Union on December 31.

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The news of Nelson's famous win is celebrated annually by the Royal Navy on Pickle Night.

Calls for a blanket 20mph speed limit for Suffolk's residential roads have been rejected amid opinions that it could not be enforced.

The Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent group put forward the motion to Suffolk County Council's full council meeting on Thursday afternoon calling for a mandatory 20mph speed limit for the residential streets in the county's town and villages, with 30mph only in exceptional circumstances.

Although positive coronavirus cases continue to be recorded in East Suffolk, which includes Felixstowe and surrounding villages, the week-on-week trend has dropped.

The latest Covid-19 figures released by the Suffolk Resilience Forum, showed 13 positive test cases in the two days between October 18 and 20, with 82 over the seven day period, taking the weekly trend case rate down to 39.28, which was slightly slower than previous figures.