Today marks the beginning of my last week as a full time journalist.

Due to Nub News closing non-profit making pages, my role as Regional Editor (Suffolk) was going to be cut with both the Felixstowe and Hadleigh Nub News websites being mothballed.

Although the opportunity to carry on running Shotley peninsula Nub News on a part-time basis was offered, I have decided to accept the package on offer and call time on my 30-year career in journalism. (More about that in another feature to come)

I'm immensely proud and pleased with what we have achieved since Nub News began in Suffolk in February 2020.

In the four years since, more than 330,000 unique users (different people) have read Hadleigh Nub News providing more than 1.8million engagements. We are the go-to online news platform for Hadleigh, number one in search engines according to Google Analytics.

We use social media to spread the word and know more people come to us for news about the Hadleigh area than any other news organisation, including the EADT, Suffolk News, Ipswich Star, and the BBC.

Our readership penetration for Hadleigh reaches more than 100% month by month, and we have been superbly supported by our wide range of columnists and contributors, sadly not enough sponsors and advertisers backed us.

I would like to thank a whole range of people, from, my army of contacts, columnists, contributors, a multitude of press officers, Stuart Boardley and Mike at the Felixstowe football club (good luck with your double of cup and promotion), but most of all - you - the readers for making Nub News the relative success it has been.

Who knows what the future holds but as a wise man told me recently:

"You may leave journalism - but journalism never leaves you..."

To be clear, my retirement from Nub News in no way affects by commitment as a councillor and I will continue serving on the Babergh District Council Cabinet for the foreseeable future.