News in Felixstowe

Council leaders have condemned the actions of vandals who caused extensive damage to a historic shelter on Felixstowe's South Seafront after police confirmed it was an act of arson.

East Suffolk Council investigators have confirmed that it will cost in the excess of £10,000 to repair the shelter, which was only recently restored in a £150,000 project as part of the Council's ongoing investment in the south seafront area.

The Port of Felixstowe has been made a part of a £77.6million national contract to increase the country's import and export capacity as we approach the end of the Brexit transition period.

The contracts with Brittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O and Stena, collectively worth £77.6m, will focus on nine routes serving eight ports in areas less likely to experience disruption.

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Today's Felixstowe sunrise: 07.19

2020 was a great year for local author Iain Maitland – AbbottVision, the makers of Shameless and Cracker, optioned his 2019 novel, Mr Todd's Reckoning, for a six-part TV series.

Iain also saw his thriller, The Scribbler, the first of a series of Gayther & Carrie detective novels, published by Contraband in May.

A fresh plea has been made for free school meals to continue over half term next week by a Suffolk councillor.

But those vouchers, worth £15 per week, are not due to continue over the October half term next week or the Christmas holidays in December.

Nub News gets socially distanced UP Close with Vivienne Warren, manager at the Palace Bingo and Cinema Hall in Felixstowe, who talks about her love for the job, how diversity is the key and Pretty Woman.

After 43 years in the business, 23 of those at the Palace, Vivienne knows a thing or two about the entertainment bliss, hasten the changes, for better and worse and has a clear idea about how she sees the future.

Felixstowe's Spa Pavilion has been given a £746,000 lifeline by the government's Culture Recovery Fund.

The grant is part of a total of £257 million is being share among more than 1,300 venues, theatres, museums and cultural organisations across the UK with Suffolk receiving more than £3.8 million.

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Today'sFelixstowe sunrise: 07.16

Independent Suffolk charity St Elizabeth Hospice's Christmas Day Dip 2020 has been cancelled due to the ongoing global pandemic but alternative festive fundraising plans will be announced soon.

Due to take place on Christmas Day the event, which has been held for more than 15 years, usually sees hundreds of swimmers don festive outfits before plunging into the icy cold North Sea at Felixstowe beach.

The long serving manager at Felixstowe Palace cinema and bingo hall has urged the government not to close their 'lifeline' to lonely customers.

Vivienne Warren fears Boris Johnson will order stricter measures to combat the coronavirus and while it is likely to be mainly in the norther towns, increased confirmed Covid-19 cases in East Suffolk, could see localised lockdowns being extended.