Bury Free Press (Bury St. Edmunds, England) back issues from March 2008:
Region battered by gale-force winds.
Mar 01, 2008 ... The emergency services have been inundated with calls and homes have been left without power after gale-force winds battered the region. Fire crews and police in Suffolk and Norfolk have dealt with damaged power cables, tree debris on the roads, and a tree which fell on to a ...
Bob named mayor.
Mar 01, 2008 ... As a tailor, wine merchant and a bus driver, Bob Cockle has led a varied career - now he will be mayor. The St Edmundsbury borough councillor received unanimous support when he was named the borough's next mayor on Wednesday. Cllr Cockle has already worn mayoral robes ...
Foreign workers are arrested.
Mar 01, 2008 ... Workers at a Chinese restaurant in Bury St Edmunds have been arrested during a raid by immigration officers. Six people were taken into custody at the Full House Restaurant, in Woolhall Street, on Friday night by Border and Immigration Agency officers after the agency was tipped ...
Carole hits airwaves.
Mar 02, 2008 ... Yoga teacher Carole Baker, from the Self Centre, in Bury St Edmunds, found herself live on radio this week when she handed out tips to Chris Evans and held a one-to-one training session with BBC2 sports editor Johnny Saunders. Carole sent a cheeky text to Chris after listening ...
Plan for extra 230 homes on estate given go-ahead.
Mar 02, 2008 ... A revised masterplan, which will see 230 extra homes built on Moreton Hall, has been given final approval. A full meeting of St Edmundsbury Borough Council approved the plans on Wednesday. The plans were amended from an original masterplan for 750 homes. Due to a ...
If you value it . . . buy it.
Mar 03, 2008 ... The National Pig Association (NPA) says a rise in meat prices of just 7p a pork chop, could save the UK industry from going under. Pig farmers in the Bury St Edmunds area have already had to slaughter 1,500 breeding sows after dramatic rises in feed prices left them making a ...
Primary schools win outstanding ratings from Ofsted.
Mar 03, 2008 ... Dedicated, strong and enjoyable were just some of the qualities highlighted in recent Ofsted inspections, where Hartest Primary School and Ickworth Park Primary School scored highly. Ickworth Park Primary School was rated outstanding in nine categories in the inspection on ...
Football: Weekend results.
Mar 03, 2008 ... Ryman League Division One North: Potters Bar Town 0, Bury Town 2. FA Vase quarter-final: Merstham 2, Needham Market 3 (Denniss, Parker, Evans) aet. Ridgeons League Premier Division: ...
Restaurant hit by fire.
Mar 03, 2008 ... A fire broke out in a bedroom cupboard above the Rose of Bengal Indian restaurant, in Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds. Three fire engines from Bury Fire Station and a turntable ladder ...
Council chief leaving.
Mar 03, 2008 ... The chief executive of St Edmundsbury Borough Council is leaving to become boss at the East of England Development Agency. Deborah Cadman will leave the council in July to become chief executive at EEDA - replacing David Marlow. ...
Town clerk to retire.
Mar 03, 2008 ... The clerk of Bury St Edmunds town council is to take early retirement. Linda Sherer will retire at the end of the month "It has been a privilege to work in Bury for the past ...
Football: Needham into semis.
Mar 03, 2008 ... Needham Market moved to within touching distance of Wembley after fighting back from a nervous start on Saturday. After going a goal down in the first minute, strikes from Jay Denniss and Craig Parker saw the Reds go in at the break 2-1 up. Merstham piled forward ...
Olympic sites in Suffolk.
Mar 03, 2008 ... Olympians could be flocking from across the world to train at Suffolk facilities listed in a new Olympic guide. West Suffolk Athletics Arena in Beetons Way, Bury St Edmunds, Thetford Forest and Culford School have all been included in a pre-games training camp guide released by ...
Skull may be that of soldier killed in battle.
Mar 04, 2008 ... Archaeologists have showed off grisly human remains discovered in the River Lark, in West Row, last year. It was announced last week that an adult human skull, which looks to have been pierced with an iron arrow or a spear, was found by workers from the Environment Agency while ...
Drop in crime is 'move in the right direction'.
Mar 04, 2008 ... Overall crime in the region has fallen by three per cent, but burglary is on the increase - according to new figures. Crime in the western area of Suffolk has dropped by 533 offences between April 2007 and January 2008 compared to the previous year. Types of crime in ...
Athletes welcome.
Mar 04, 2008 ... International Olympic athletes could flock to the region to train at regional facilities listed in a new venue guide. West Suffolk Athletics Arena, in Beetons Way, Bury St Edmunds, Thetford Forest and Culford School have been included in a pre-games training camp guide released ...
Football: Brooks leaves Thetford.
Mar 04, 2008 ... Thetford Town FC team manager Simon Brooks has been relieved of his duties after three years at ...
Bury Festival 2008 tickets on sale.
Mar 04, 2008 ... Tickets for this year's Bury Festival, which will run from May 9-25, are now on sale. The Theatre Royal, Abbey Gardens and Athenaeum are just some of the locations taking part and artists booked for the Festival range from classical musicians, to world cinema, to ...
Thieves steal from ambulance.
Mar 04, 2008 ... Thieves have stolen from an ambulance while its crew was attending to an elderly dementia patient in Ixworth. The ambulance crew was called to The Beeches Residential Home, in High Street, at around 7.20pm on Sunday. While there, thieves went into the unlocked ...
Car crashes into school gates.
Mar 04, 2008 ... A road in Mildenhall remains closed after a car crashed into the gates of a primary school. Emergency services were called to St Mary's primary school, in North Terrace, just after 4pm today. According to a spokesman from Suffolk Police, no-one is thought to have ...
Pupils to perform.
Mar 05, 2008 ... Youngsters in Bury St Edmunds are once again getting into the festival spirit by singing with the Township Youth Choir. Approximately 40 pupils from schools across Bury are taking part in weekly rehearsals in preparation for a Bury Festival performance on May 13 with Mbawula, a ...
Eating away at disorders.
Mar 05, 2008 ... Sufferers of eating disorders could benefit from a support service that is to be extended in to West Suffolk. Specialists are being recruited to form a team dedicated to treating patients and families of people who have been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other ...
Main road closed near Stanton.
Mar 06, 2008 ... A main road is closed after a collision between two cars near Stanton. The crash happened just before 4pm on the A143. Emergency services were called out to the incident after a 60-year-old woman was trapped in her car - a purple Metro. The woman has since ...
No-nonsense Anne entertains.
Mar 06, 2008 ... No-nonsense MP Anne Widdecombe had members of the Women's Institute howling with laughter when she spoke at their annual meeting in Bury St Edmunds. The Suffolk West Federation of Women's Institutes (WI) held their annual meeting at the Corn Exchange on Thursday, where ...
Town-made clock is auctioned.
Mar 06, 2008 ... A grandfather clock made in Bury St Edmunds has been sold at auction for [pounds sterling]3,000. The 7ft 5ins tall mahogany longcase clock was auctioned by Bonhams, in London, on Tuesday. It is the creation of Mark Hawkins, who had his workshop on the corner of ...
Laptops and cash stolen by theives.
Mar 06, 2008 ... Police are linking two burglaries in Wattisfield in which cash, laptops and valuables were stolen. Thieves forced a door and stole two computers, watches, jewellery and money from a home in The Oaks between 5pm and 10pm on Wednesday. Burglars also stole a large ...
Police link crimes in Thurston.
Mar 06, 2008 ... Burglars stole a mobile phone from a house in Birch Road in Thurston after breaking in through an unsecured door. Golf clubs and an orange mini motorbike were also stolen from a garage at the same property in the raid, between midnight and 6am on Wednesday, March 5. ...
Waitrose staff celebrate 20 per cent bonus.
Mar 06, 2008 ... Supermarket staff were in high spirits today after learning they are to receive a bonus of 20 per cent of their annual salaries. Workers at Waitrose, in Robert Boby Way, Bury St Edmunds, will each see a payout equivalent to 10 weeks' pay after the John Lewis Partnership, which ...
Lucy inspired by orphanage.
Mar 07, 2008 ... A teenager was so inspired after helping orphans with a life-threatening disease, she has decided to dedicate more of her free time to caring for them. Lucy Wallace, of Bury St Edmunds, took two weeks out of her Christmas holidays to visit an orphanage in Romania for children ...
Court told of shed fire threat.
Mar 07, 2008 ... A Bury St Edmunds man covered himself in petrol and threatened to set light to himself in a shed full of gas and petrol canisters, a court heard on Friday. Homes were evacuated and police fired a rubber 'bullet' at John Peter Harpley, 30, of The Beeches, during the incident, ...
Waste not, want not . . .
Mar 07, 2008 ... Residents in St Edmundsbury have been challenged to reduce their black bin waste to zero for a week. Next week is Zero Waste Week and people are being invited to go the extra mile to reduce their carbon footprints. Between March 10 and 17, people are invited to use only products ...
Celebrations for leap day babies.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Two special birthday girls celebrated their big days on Friday, February 29. Baby Ellie Louise was born at West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, last Friday, weighing a healthy 8lb 2oz. Her mum Clare Sturman, 27, of Glebe Close, Thetford, was scheduled for a ...
Pair retire after 94 years.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Almost a century of dedicated service has been celebrated at a retirement ceremony at Seamans building, in Thurston. David Steel, 65, of Lockington Crescent, Stowmarket, retired from Seamans last Friday after 50 years of employment. Mr Steel was joined by David ...
Service remembers four Iraq war fallen.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Gunners from 1 Squadron RAF Regiment who were killed in Iraq were remembered at a memorial service at St Mary's Church, in Bury St Edmunds. Servicemen from RAF Honington gathered to pay tribute to their fallen comrades at the service alongside the families of the four men, who ...
Clinic signs to be made clear.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Patients could be missing out on sexual health appointments because they are too embarrassed to ask where the clinic is, it has been suggested. The theory, put forward by a West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust board member, came as figures showed the hospital failed to meet a target ...
Gambler burgled to pay off debts.
Mar 07, 2008 ... A carer, who turned to gambling after his wife was paralysed in a road accident, burgled 22 homes in an attempt to pay off debts, a court heard on Tuesday. Serial burglar Stephen Ellis, of Heatherset Way, Red Lodge, pleaded guilty to three charges of burglary after stealing a ...
Food production firm reveals [pounds sterling]73.5m loss.
Mar 07, 2008 ... A food production company, which has a factory in Bury St Edmunds, has recorded a pre-tax loss of more than [pounds sterling]73.5 million. Premier Foods, which makes brands including Haywards pickles and Loyd Grossman cooking sauces, slashed its dividend after posting the loss ...
Moving on . . .
Mar 07, 2008 ... It's all change at the church as two long-established vicars in West Suffolk move to new parishes. Canon Simon Pettitt, rural dean of Mildenhall and vicar of Exning, is to become vicar of the Benefice of Horringer, while Canon Gregory Webb will leave his position as team rector ...
Yobs push over wall.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Yobs have been causing damage in Bury St Edmunds during the past week. Overnight on Friday, a wall outside a pub in Northgate Street was pushed over into the pub garden, while railings on the edge of the Abbey Gardens were pushed over between ...
Alex expects tough time.
Mar 07, 2008 ... An intensive care unit sister at West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, is hoping to take the London Marathon in her stride to raise money for charity. Alex Moffat, 41, will run the London Marathon for the first time on April 13 in aid of the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust ....
Broken main brings floodwater to door.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Residents were left without water for five hours when workmen damaged an underground pipe, flooding a road. Twenty-eight properties in the Barons Road area of Bury St Edmunds were affected by the incident last Friday, when contractors working for Anglian Water hit a main close ...
Priced out of the market.
Mar 07, 2008 ... First-time buyers now need to be earning [pounds sterling]52,000 to afford the cheapest properties. And they are set to be priced out of the market even more over the next three years, with the average home in St Edmundsbury set to rise by [pounds sterling]67,000 from around ...
Housing is a big issue.
Mar 07, 2008 ... The lack of affordable housing is the single biggest issue in the countryside, according to a Government report. The findings of the Government rural advocate Dr Stuart Burgess comes at the same time the Country Land and Business Association has called for more flexibility from ...
Affordable homes are being built.
Mar 07, 2008 ... More affordable homes are to be built in West Suffolk after Havebury Housing Partnership and St Edmundsbury Borough Council secured a successful bid for [pounds sterling]3.5 million from the Housing Corporation. Ninety-one new homes will be built by Havebury, which will spend ...
Card to cut thefts.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Police are hoping to cut purse thefts at supermarkets with a nifty new gadget the size of a credit card. The clever scheme was launched at Sainsbury's, in Bury St Edmunds, on Monday, following incidents involving purses and bags being stolen from shoppers. A credit ...
A134 crash witness call.
Mar 07, 2008 ... POolice are calling for witnesses to an accident on the Ingham to Thetford road in which a woman driver was injured and her car damaged. The accident happened on the A134, north of Ingham at the Seven Hills, on Saturday between 2.50pm and 3pm, when a black car travelling towards ...
'Keep them open'.
Mar 07, 2008 ... More than 9,000 people have signed a petition to save rural post offices threatened with closure. Up to 2,500 branches across the country could be axed as part of Post Office Ltd's Network Change Programme - with fears people in rural communities could lose out as a result. ...
Group comes to the rescue.
Mar 07, 2008 ... A housing society is stumping up [pounds sterling]55,000 for roadworks to complete a housing development that has suffered months of delays. Highmore Homes, the developer behind the 106-home Peach Maltings scheme, on Thingoe Hill, Bury St Edmunds, is facing fury from buyers who ...
Woman injured in Stanton crash.
Mar 07, 2008 ... A sixty-year-old woman was taken to hospital after a two vehicle crash at Stanton yesterday. The woman, who was a passenger in purple Metro, had to be freed by firefighters and was taken to West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds. The crash happened on the A143 ...
Lunchtime thefts in Bury.
Mar 07, 2008 ... TWO elderly women had their purses stolen while they were shopping in Bury St Edmunds yesterday. The snatches happened between 12.05pm and 2pm. One woman had her purse stolen while shopping in Argos while the ...
Military honours for region's servicemen.
Mar 07, 2008 ... The heroic efforts of soldiers, gunners and pilots from the region have been recognised in an exceptional list of military honours. In an unprecedented medal haul, the Royal Anglian Regiment won six military crosses for the courage and sacrifice or servicemen during their ...
Speedway: Tigers will warm up against elite opponents.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Mildenhall Fen Tigers begin their 2008 season with a trip to the 2006 Elite League Champions, Peterborough. Despite the fierce rivalry between the two clubs, the Fen Tigers have not ridden at Peterborough since April 1992 when they won 47-43 in a Gold Cup clash. The ...
Angling by John Easdown: The close season - introduced to replenish stock.
Mar 07, 2008 ... RECENTLY, I enjoyed a conversation with a young angler who asked me if I would tell him all about the closed season for coarse fish - something he had been reading about in old books. He wanted to know what was the point of stopping fishing for three months (as was the way in ...
Hockey: Bury fight back twice to earn a share of the spoils.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Wisbech Town Ladies' 1st XI 2, Bury St Edmunds Ladies' 1st XI 2 This was a very close game with drama from start to finish. The match started well, with Bury on top but Wisbech got an early goal against the run of play to put them 1-0 ahead. Bury fought ...
Point-to-point: Stearn records first career treble.
Mar 07, 2008 ... A GOOD day of racing was held at a watered Higham on Sunday. Fields were not large, but the crowd enjoyed exciting and competitive racing on good to firm going. Rupert Stearn, from Wymondham in Norfolk, rode his first career treble with consecutive rides, two of which were ...
Motorsport by Arthur Debenham: Rally driver lifts club's top trophy.
Mar 07, 2008 ... THE annual West Suffolk Motor Club awards presentation recently took place at the Six Bells in Horringer. The overall club champion and winner of the Bill Vevers Cup, was rally driver, Clare Rix. David Holmes continued his winning ways by securing the award for ...
Running by Julia Jepson: Aldis makes the effort to claim victory.
Mar 07, 2008 ... THE strong wind did not help the runners competing on the undulating 10 and 20-mile road race staged at Wymondham on Sunday. A handful of local athletes travelled to Norfolk to compete and the effort proved worthwhile for Stowmarket Striders' Roger Aldis (writes JULIA JEPSON). ...
Rugby: League home defeat gives Bury a reality check.
Mar 07, 2008 ... Tabard 1st XV 26, Bury St Edmunds 1st XV 23 FOLLOWING the euphoria resulting from Bury's Suffolk Cup final victory, the Haberden-based outfit came back to earth on Saturday, losing at home against the London Division Two basement side. Bury, sponsored by ...
Rugby: That's entertainment - College win.
Mar 07, 2008 ... West Suffolk College 12, Oaklands College 0 A GOOD crowd were entertained by a tough-fought encounter between these two sides at The Haberden. Oaklands College are associated with Saracens and the final score was a credit to the local lads, who rose to the ...
Golf by Bryan Potter: Edwards in winning form.
Mar 07, 2008 ... ANYONE recording 40 points in a singles Stableford competition can can go home with a smile after a fine round of golf. When someone totals 47, it is time for an indelible diary entry, an inscribed ball and something to relate to the grandchildren. It happened last ...
Football: Evans' late strike seals FA Vase semi-final place for Needham.
Mar 07, 2008 ... NEEDHAM Market moved to within touching distance of Wembley after fighting back from a dreadful start at Moatside. In a rip-roaring quarter-final encounter, the hosts began with intent and sent the majority of the 871-strong crowd wild with a first minute opener - the powerful ...
Football: Results & Fixtures.
Mar 07, 2008 ... COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP Norwich City 1, Blackpool 2; Southampton 1, Ipswich Town 1. Tuesday: Ipswich Town 1, Sheffield Utd 1; Watford 1, Norwich City 1. RYMAN LEAGUE Division One North: Potters Bar Town 0, Bury Town 2. Tuesday: Bury ...
Cycling: Duo going for glory.
Mar 07, 2008 ... TWO of Great Britain's top track cyclists will be bidding for glory when the World Championships come to England later this month. The 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships begin at the Manchester Velodrome on March 26, with Ross Edgar and Victoria Pendleton both expected ...
Football: Blues seek to upset leaders.
Mar 07, 2008 ... BURY Town FC must put aside their midweek upset to focus on claiming an important Ryman League double at Ram Meadow tomorrow (ko 3pm). The Blues will have to be at their very best to achieve their aim as promotion-chasing Dartford seek revenge after being defeated 2-1 by their ...
Football: Cusack joins Walsham squad for vital home test.
Mar 07, 2008 ... NEW signing Andrew Cusack will go straight into the Walsham-le-Willows FC squad for their home test against struggling Swaffham Town tomorrow (ko 3pm). The 19-year-old left-back, who joined from Thetford Town on Monday, will fill the gap left by Paul Musgrove who moved to fellow ...