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

  1. The church of St Mary-le-Tower in Ipswichpublished at 17:22 Greenwich Mean Time 1 December 2020

    Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St Mary-le-Tower in Ipswich. In 1552, there were just five bells and a Sanctus in 1553, but by 1865 they had been augmented to a full peal of twelve which were subsequently restored and recast by Taylors of Loughborough, including in a 35 hundredweight tenor tuned to the note D flat. We hear them ringing Cambridge Maximus.

  2. Gosden & Prescott team up for new eventpublished at 09:16 Greenwich Mean Time 1 December 2020

    Trainers John Gosden and Sir Mark Prescott are to team up for the new Racing League competition which launches next year.

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  3. 'We have got this virus back under control'published at 18:14 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2020

    Health Secretary Matt Hancock has hailed the success of the national lockdown, which lifts on 2 December.

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  4. 'I'm the boy who saved Christmas'published at 09:27 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2020

    Siblings Harry and Jessica inspire their mother to give crackers and goodie bags to 350 school kids.

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  5. Ipswich Town 0-2 Charlton Athleticpublished at 17:44 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2020

    Charlton inflict a second successive home defeat on Ipswich Town thanks to goals from Albie Morgan and Omar Bogle.

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  6. MP to 'make case' for county to be in lower tierpublished at 13:23 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    Suffolk is being put into a tougher set of Covid-19 restrictions in December.

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  7. Suffolk to face tier 2 Covid-19 restrictionspublished at 19:06 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2020

    Suffolk has been put into a tougher set of Covid-19 restrictions in the run-up to Christmas.

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  8. Offshore wind farm apprentices 'break stereotypes'published at 18:43 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2020

    Jovita Beeston, 18, and Hope, 17, begin a three-year apprenticeship at a £2.5bn offshore wind farm.

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  9. Hancock explains how Liverpool has moved to tier twopublished at 12:33 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2020

    The health secretary said that more community testing would lead to life getting back to normal quicker.

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  10. 'We cannot flick a switch to get back to normal'published at 12:14 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2020

    Health Secretary Matt Hancock sets out England's new coronavirus tier system

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  11. England's regional Covid tiers to be set outpublished at 09:49 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2020

    Most areas are expected to be put in the two toughest tiers of restrictions when the lockdown ends.

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  12. Shut-down Christmas shop wins council reprievepublished at 18:48 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2020

    Christmas Wonderland has been allowed to reopen because it sells real Christmas trees.

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  13. Town's £125m bridge gets government approvalpublished at 18:18 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2020

    The £125m bridge is expected to reduce congestion in a coastal town.

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  14. Ipswich Town 0-3 Hull Citypublished at 21:20 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2020

    Hull stroll to a comfortable win at promotion rivals Ipswich to remain top of League One and drop their hosts to fifth.

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  15. Ex-PC who made fake cocaine wraps is jailedpublished at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2020

    Daniel Jackson threw away the drugs and made fake wraps using sugar, a court hears.

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  16. Coroner writes to Hancock after 'wrong drip' deathpublished at 15:26 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2020

    Susan Warby's death at West Suffolk Hospital was "contributed to by unnecessary insulin treatment".

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  17. Don't go to work when sick, 'peculiar' Brits toldpublished at 14:42 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2020

    People have tendency to soldier on, potentially making colleagues sick, health secretary says.

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  18. Daily Covid tests to cut 14-day isolation trialledpublished at 17:16 Greenwich Mean Time 23 November 2020

    Contacts of people with the virus will not need to quarantine if they test negative, the government says.

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  19. Matt Hancock: Life back to normal 'after Easter'published at 08:38 Greenwich Mean Time 23 November 2020

    The health secretary says the bulk of the vaccine rollout will happen in early 2021.

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  20. Ipswich Town 2-1 Shrewsbury Townpublished at 18:02 Greenwich Mean Time 21 November 2020

    Jack Lankester's header seven minutes into stoppage time helps Ipswich come from behind to beat Shrewsbury Town.

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