Summary

  • Updates for Friday, 13 January 2017

  • Despite severe flood warnings for areas along the Suffolk coast, most places avoid flooding

  • Environment Agency says a change in wind direction helped avert flooding

  • Some local flooding, including at The Harbour Inn, Southwold

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    Referee Darren Drysdale is charged with improper conduct by the Football Association after clashing with Ipswich midfielder Alan Judge.

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    The men travelled across the North Sea for the drugs but had to be rescued on the return journey.

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    The health secretary urges people to come forward to get their first coronavirus vaccine dose.

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    Saturday's League One game between Shrewsbury Town and Ipswich Town is postponed due to a frozen pitch.

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    But scientists warn against treating coronavirus like the flu, with mutations getting "more dangerous".

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    A pub chain's boss said research found people felt some of its premises' names were racist.

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    The health secretary's comments prompted criticism from Labour who said people wanted clarity.

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  20. 'People know there is uncertainty about holidays'published at 09:15 Greenwich Mean Time 11 February 2021

    Matt Hancock tells the BBC that people understand the "uncertain" situation about holidays.

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