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Lowestoft 1550-1750 David Butcher Boydell & Brewer of Woodbridge has just published Lowestoft (Suffolk) author David Butcher’s latest book, a 354 page hardback entitled ‘Lowestoft, 1550 – 1750 : Development and Change in a Suffolk Coastal Town’, with 24 in text half tone illustrations and six line maps, the book is priced at £50.00. www.boydell.co.uk […]
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Alerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk One Suffolk… but minus Lowestoft! Ever felt that nobody loves you? Ever felt like the black sheep (or is it sheep of multi-ethnic origin – just trying to be PC) of the family? Ever been sent to Coventry? Or to Norfolk? Well, […]
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Alerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Trees a Crowd… I can feel a career change afoot! This headline writing malarkey could be the next big thing for me… Anyway, to the plot… Being a Tuesday, it’s drill night and with an early start too. The early start was […]
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Health & Wellbeing June 10, 2008
Alerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Emergency Services Open Day – Saturday 28th June 2008 After too long a gap we are holding an Emergency Services Open Day at Normanshurst Fire Station, Lowestoft. There’ll be plenty to see and do… tons of equipment and fire engines from Suffolk […]
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Chairman’s Chat Thank you, Mr Brown! Our Prime Minister is short of praise at present and I’m an unlikely person to come to his aid! But I will do so by thanking and complimenting him for introducing in his 2002 Budget, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, the designation of Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC). After […]
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Art & Theatre / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / exhibitions / Music / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk May 15, 2008
Museums at Night Specialat the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts will be open until 10pm on Wednesday 21 May for a Museums at Night Special as part of Museums and Galleries Month. The event is free and will offer something for everyone to enjoy including creative activities, live performances, […]
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Alerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Meeting the new Dep . . . Call me an old cynic, but it was with very little interest that we all trouped upstairs to meet the (relatively) new Deputy Chief Fire Officer (Dep) of Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service. I suppose […]
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Peregrine Falcons are breeding in Suffolk again – for the first time in a staggering 200 years. The sensational birds of prey, which can hit 200mph in a dive, last thrived in the East Anglian county when King George III was on the throne and Napoleon was rampaging across Europe. Now a peregrine is sitting […]
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HARLESTON MAGPIES U18 GIRLS and U18 BOYS in NATIONAL FINALS Harleston Magpies Under 18 Girls and Under 18 Boys teams have both reached the National Finals taking place at Canterbury this weekend in a tremendous double achievement for the Club. The U18 Boys have reached the Finals with some fairly comfortable results whilst the U18 […]
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Chairman’s Chat So near, yet so …. So near, yet so far away! The draw against Fareham came back to haunt the Men’s 1sts in the EHL play-offs at Cannock last weekend when after an uncharacteristically bad game against the University of Durham and excellent wins over Harborne and Cardiff the team missed out on […]
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Art & Theatre / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / exhibitions / Music / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk May 1, 2008
www.mgm.org.uk This May museums across the East of England are celebrating Museums and Galleries Month with a festival of free events on a Chinese theme. In Norwich, Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts are collaborating for the first time to provide the city with a unique chance to experience […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Health & Wellbeing / Waveney Valley April 23, 2008
Deaf Awareness Week 5th – 11th MayBungay and Waveney Valley Hearing Support Club There are 9million Deaf and Hard of hearing people in the UK 50% of which are over 60yrs of age. The term Deaf is used in a general way to describe; Hard of Hearing: mild to severe usually a gradual loss. Deafened: […]
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Chairman’s Chat Canterbury and Leicester – here we come! Last weekend was a bit special! The Men’s 1sts completed their regular season with their 21st win in 22 games to give them a one hundred percent record since Christmas; the U18 Boys (and the hardy spectators) ignored a snowstorm to reach the national finals with […]
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Waveney Valley April 8, 2008
Waveney Valley Field Trip – April 26thSNS Geological GroupLed by Tim Holt-Wilson, the first of this year’s Suffolk Naturalists’ Society Geological Group field trips is on Saturday April 26th. We will study terrace remnants and other Pleistocene sites along the Waveney valley. The first venue is Calke Wood, Rickinghall, a good example of a RIGS […]
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MENS 1s v Cambridge City (L) 2.15 (W) H W 1-0MENS 2s v Witham (L) A conceded W 3-0MENS 3s v Norwich Union 2 (L) 3.15 (S) H W 5-3MENS 4s v Dereham 2 (L) A L 0-7MENS 5s v Norfolk Nomads (L) 1.45 (S) H W 7-0MENS 6s v North Walsham 2 (L) A […]
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Chairman’s Chat A lesson for the students? Hopefully! The Ladies’ 1sts complete their Slazenger England Hockey Division One programme with two home matches – the first this Saturday (29 March) against University of Birmingham and the second against Durham University on Saturday week. Both matches start at 12.30pm and as ever your support would be […]