Suffolk Libraries has launched a new digital story-sharing service
- Credit: Caroline England
Suffolk Libraries has partnered with Featherbed Tales to provide a new way for people to share stories.
Libraries across Suffolk will be the first to work with Featherbed Tales, who make it possible to read, record and share one of their special children s stories using your own voice.
The initiative is ideal for those who are not able to meet up other family members and can help to boost children s reading and listening skills.
Anybody with a Suffolk Libraries account can log into the Featherbed Tales website and read and record one of the six short stories and then share a link to anyone by email.
Home testing kits are now available from all libraries across Suffolk
- Credit: Suffolk Libraries
Coronavirus home testing kits are now available from libraries and pharmacies across Suffolk.
People are now able to get free lateral flow kits from any library in the county or from any of the 136 NHS pharmacies.
Director of public health for Suffolk, Stuart Keeble, said: I urge the public to play their part in the fight against Covid-19 by testing regularly and these schemes will help them do so. We want to make testing as easy and accessible to the community as possible, which is why we are making lateral flow devices available in libraries and particularly in those areas that previously had a testing centre.
Home testing kits are now available from all libraries across Suffolk
- Credit: Suffolk Libraries
Coronavirus home testing kits are now available from libraries and pharmacies across Suffolk.
People are now able to get free lateral flow kits from any library in the county or from any of the 136 NHS pharmacies.
Director of public health for Suffolk, Stuart Keeble, said: I urge the public to play their part in the fight against Covid-19 by testing regularly and these schemes will help them do so. We want to make testing as easy and accessible to the community as possible, which is why we are making lateral flow devices available in libraries and particularly in those areas that previously had a testing centre.
Jules Button of Woodbridge Emporium bookshop
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Did you count down the days until you could go back to a real-life bookshop?
As independent bookshops in Suffolk and Essex reopen their doors following easing of lockdown restrictions, shop staff have been overwhelmed with the welcome from their regular customers.
But some are worried about whether the support will continue once the initial enthusiasm wears off - and are calling for people to use their local bookshops regularly, rather than buying from Amazon.
Jules Button, outside Woodbridge Emporium bookshop
- Credit: Charlotte Bond/Archant
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