- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
- 'Crush racism' in football: PM
Community
Magic tricks
AWARD-winning magician Robert Gough will perform magic tricks for 24 hours from 11am today until 11am tomorrow at Asda, in Bury St Edmunds, to raise money for the West Suffolk Disability Resource Centre, which is in need of urgent renovation.
Landowner says planning mistake cost him £500,000
A LANDOWNER may be more than £500,000 out of pocket after a computer error led Mid Suffolk District Council to issue multiple planning consents for an 81- home development in Thurston.
It’s a diamond day for Bill and Olive
A WOMAN who was told on her wedding day ‘it will never last’ is to celebrate her 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday.
Teachers look forward to running challenge
THREE teachers who are used to running around after children will be running a half marathon for charity at the end of the month.
Group sheds pounds for charity
A WEIGHT loss group shed pounds for charity last month during a sponsored slim.
Community News
Olympic legend opens new gym
OLYMPIC gold medal winner Sally Gunnell cut the red ribbon to open a new £250,000 gym at Bury St Edmunds Leisure centre.
Details of new bus service
MORETON HALL is to enjoy the truth of a popular saying about buses – ‘you can be waiting for ages then two come all at once’.
Eight join board set up to run county libraries
THE full board of the new Suffolk libraries social enterprise has been chosen.
New canon at cathedral
ST EDMUNDSBURY Cathedral is to install a new residentiary canon and precentor.
Police launch bike workshops
SUFFOLK Police are running a motorbike safety course to help cut the number of bikers killed or seriously injured on the county’s roads.
Announcements
Wilfred Lynn Goldman : Memorial
Published in the Bury Free Press on 22 February 2012
Ann Doig : Memorial
Published in the Bury Free Press on 22 February 2012
Margaret Ann Woods : Obituary
Published in the Bury Free Press on 17 February 2012
John Colin Fojut : Obituary
Published in the Bury Free Press on 17 February 2012
Lily Ellinor : Obituary
Published in the Bury Free Press on 17 February 2012
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Weather for Bury St Edmunds
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Heavy rain
Temperature: 8 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 26 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 9 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: West
