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Christian Zemann and his wife Lucy have vowed to resume the vital foot ferry service between Felixstowe, Harwich and Shotley, despite suffering a massive blow late on Friday night

Gale force winds pulled the former SS Canberra lifeboat from her mornings at Ha'penny Pier, Harwich, and cast her adrift. A crew from the Harwich Haven Authority managed to secure her and pull her back to the pontoon but she had taken on a lot of sea water and suffered serious damage as she partly submerged.

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The Felixstowe foot ferry to Harwich and Shotley is likely to be out of action for the rest of the season after sea water got into the engine.

High winds caused the ferry to break free of her moorings at the Ha'penny pier, Harwich last night and then took on water. She was swept around the pontoon and ended up stuck under the gangway down from the pier to where she she was originally tied up.

Felixstowe mayor Mark Jepson has spoken of the town's pride in recycling efforts after helping the resort's pier turn green

New stats show we care more about the environment than ever before and to celebrate this year's Recycle Week, two iconic locations in Suffolk, Felixstowe Pier and Ipswich Town Hall, were lit up in green to mark the occasion, as revealed by Nub News last week.

A Felixstowe pub owner has vowed to reopen this evening after a fire forced staff to flee the building at lunchtime today.

Four fire appliances were called to the small fire at the Mariners in Trimley at around 1.40pm today after a dryer in a first floor room caught alight but the emergency crews soon had the situation under control.

Felixstowe Nub News aims to be supportive to every element of the community from business and shops to people and charities and clubs and sports organisations. Everyone is finding it tough at the moment and wants life to get back to normal so we will be profiling some of these local businesses and groups regularly over coming weeks in a feature called UP CLOSE IN FELIXSTOWE:

Today we serve up a treat for your as we chat to Louis Andrews, the new executive chef at the Mariners in Trimley, one of Felixstowe's oldest pubs.

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Veteran executive Chris Lewis has been reappointed as chef executive of Hutchison Ports in a bid to sort out mounting problems at Felixstowe's container port.

Mr Lewis previously worked at the Port Felixstowe between1983 and 2010, where he became chief executive in 2006, before leaving in 2010 to become managing director of rival DP World Southampton,

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