News in Felixstowe

Joan Rich had special company for her 75th circuit of her 102 lap NHS challenge, when she was joined by someone even older than her.

Wynnie Dunger, who celebrated her 102nd birthday last week, went round with 101-year-old Joan as edges ever nearer her target, making it an astonishing 203 years together, and still going strong.

A drive-in cinema will NOT be screened in Felixstowe this year, after councillors voted against taxpayers funding the event.

The Finance and Governance committee also flushed away suggestions of installing temporary loos at Landguard as they felt with more visitor attractions now opening up, there was no longer a need.

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The Apollo 11 space rocket successfully launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon.

Hundreds of Felixstowe dockers have been offered cash to quit their jobs.

The Chinese owners of the Port Of Felixstowe have given a £10,000 incentive to workers to accept what they call a 'mutual termination, as a way of reducing the workforce.

A final decision on the revamp of children's centres in Suffolk has been pulled at zero hour, after an error was spotted in the council's reports.

Suffolk County Council's cabinet was this afternoon due to agree a shake-up of children's centres into a new 'family hubs' model which would see two centres close entirely, eight transformed into nursery or school places, 11 remain open only part time and 17 to continue full time.

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Talented film and television crews from the Felixstowe area are getting the chance to appear in local blockbusters, thanks to a new initiative.

Suffolk's official film office has launched a new database of local TV and film professionals to help kickstart the industry following the coronavirus lockdown.

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Pubs and restaurants in the Felixstowe area are today being urged to register for the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme, which will allow customers to feast for half price.

A number of pubs that open from Monday to Wednesday can use the scheme to offer a discount to diners and encourage them to eat at their establishment.

The number of parents in the Felixstowe area wishing to home school their child is expected to rise, after the coronavirus lockdown gave families a 'trial run'.

Around 1% of Suffolk's children are educated at home normally, before the coronavirus lockdown enforced at the end of March meant most children were being educated at home.