News in Felixstowe

Highways England have apologised to residents kept awake by overnight roadworks and taken steps to minimise disruption.

Neighbours along the route being used as a diversion for roadworks on the A14 road between the Trimleys and the Port of Felixstowe have complained on social media after being kept away by lorries trundling by during the night and in the early morning.

A Mafia expert from a leading university has warned Felixstowe will be among those ports where crime is most likely to flourish.

Dr Anna Sergi, from the University of Essex, at Wivenoe near Colchester, has written an in depth report about crime at ports around the world and has warned easing of border controls could make the UK an even more attractive destination for illicit goods and drugs, especially post Brexit.

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The Perseid meteor shower is one of the highlights of many meteor hunters' calendar due to its high hourly rate and bright meteors, caused by the Earth slamming into the debris left behind by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle in July and August every year.

Scores of Felixstowe will find out their GCSE and A-level results next week, but with pupils unable to take exams this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, results have had to be calculated differently.

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Due to a restriction on numbers, this year's VJ Day commemoration in Felixstowe will be live streamed on social media.

The 75th Anniversary of VJ Day coincides with the centenary of the unveiling of Felixstowe War Memorial and a small, socially distant service will be held from 2pm this Saturday.

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A grants scheme which has seen East Suffolk Council pay out over £2.5 million to small businesses is coming to a close and any qualifying company is urged to apply before next week's final deadline for applications.

The Discretionary Business Grant Scheme has been a great success and since its launch in May, the council has paid out £2,503,000 providing financial support to 227 small businesses which were ineligible for the Government's initial round of business funding.

Supply teacher agencies in Suffolk are making preparations for an increase in demand at the start of the new school year, education leaders have said.

Suffolk County Council said that traditionally supply teachers were not needed much at the beginning of the autumn term in September, but usually saw an uptake in work later into the autumn and winter as flu bugs and illnesses started to affect workforces.

"This for us is a complete culture change. We have got to all now wake up and smell the coffee."

It's unusual for such a frank admission from a statutory organisation, but the health inequalities in the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities starkly exposed by the Black Lives Matters protests and coronavirus is far from usual. Or at least, it shouldn't be.

As lovely as the hot weather has been for many, the soaring temperatures and large number of visitors to Felixstowe as seen our local coastguard and RNLI crews called out on numerous occasions already this weekend.

Those incidents were among 340 HM Coastguard dealt with 340 across the whole of the UK on Saturday (August 8) – the organisation's highest amount of call-outs in a single day for more than four years.