Ann Hayton is releasing her first book later this year
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A Suffolk author is preparing to release her debut novel ten years after she first put pen to paper.
Ann Hayton, from Wickham Market, will publish her first young adult novel this year.
The Other Side of the Whale Road will be released in September by Lightning Books under Mrs Hayton s pen name, K.A. Hayton.
The story follows a 16-year-old boy named Joss, who is sent to live in a Suffolk village and ends up travelling back in time to the Anglo Saxon period to meet King Edmund.
Malcom Sobey received the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab in Mildenhall
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A new mass coronavirus vaccination centre in Suffolk has been opened to the public.
The West Suffolk Council office in Mildenhall is the latest site to open up as a mass vaccination centre in the county.
The site began to see its first patients on Friday, as the NHS looks to focus on patients aged 55 and over.
Patients have started to be vaccinated in Mildenhall today
- Credit: CHARLOTTE BOND We are really pleased that we ve opened this site, it s the sixth the Essex Partnership Trust has opened across Suffolk and north east Essex, said Pam Sabine, vaccination director for Suffolk and north east Essex.
Therese Coffey visited the Gainsborough Vaccination Centre in Ipswich.
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Suffolk Coastal MP and cabinet minister Therese Coffey visited Covid vaccine centres in the Ipswich and Felixstowe areas on Friday as the government prepares to announce that it has met its first vaccination targets.
The government had set itself the target of offering a first jab to everyone over the age of 70 by Sunday, February 15, and this weekend cabinet ministers will be out around the country supporting centres as they near that target.
Work and Pensions Secretary Dr Coffey visited teams at Gainsborough Sports Centre in Ipswich, Trinity Park and at the Grove Medical Centre in Felixstowe.