A new splashpad costing £230,000 will be built at Haverhill Recreation Ground after it has been designed by more than 120 young people from local schools.
West Suffolk Council will give approval for the Western Way public services hub in Bury St Edmunds to progress after fallout from Covid-19 forced a review of the project.
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3:22 PM May 27, 2021
Everyone is being encouraged to get set for the country’s biggest mass-action community clean-up this spring
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Join more than 1,000 voluntary litter pickers in West Suffolk by getting involved in this year s Great British Spring Clean.
Led by Keep Britain Tidy, 2021 s Great British Spring Clean gets underway on Friday, May 28, and runs until June 13.
The initiative encourages local communities to tackle litter in their areas and this year organisers have set the Million Mile Mission, which involves individuals and groups pledging how much time they will spend litter picking, which is converted into miles.
Who needs a camel, eh?
Alun Davies first set out to Morocco on a dodgy Norton Commando in 1978. Thirty-two years later he finally gets to ride in this spectacular and varied North African country. In the first of a two-part feature, he reveals what it’s like to ride 1,500km over the mountains, scrubland and deserts of Morocco
It was an emotional year, 1978. Johnny Rotten quit the Sex Pistols, Jim Jones lead his People’s Temple in a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, and the layshaft bearing of my Norton Commando 850 shattered for the fifth time.
In the past, the unpredictable tube of British-made steel and ball bearings had chosen to collapse within sight of an acrid, flaming coking oven and within walking distance of my home town in the (then) mining community of the Rhondda Valley of South Wales. On this occasion the Norton had come to a crunching, grinding halt on a deserted country road 50 or so miles south of Paris on a cold, dark and wet Sunday evening in early winter.
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