Recently added articles from Haverhill Echo (Haverhill, England):
Launch of book about Haverhill Rovers prompts return of familiar faces.
Aug 04, 2008 ... A NUMBER of famous faces from Haverhill Rovers' past returned to Hamlet Croft on Saturday for the launch of the club's new history book. Brian Holmes, Jim Thomson and Len Basham attended the launch of the book held on the same day as Rovers' friendly with Halstead, more than ...
Police speak to 100 people about sexual assault.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Almost 100 people were spoken to by officers carrying out anniversary checks yesterday in Haverhill, a week after a 12 year old girl was sexually assaulted. The girl was walking with a female friend, also aged 12, along the old railway line on the afternoon of Thursday, July 24, ...
Lack of 'dough' not a problem for shoppers.
Jul 31, 2008 ... THE 'credit crunch' may be causing everyone to tighten their pursestrings, but there's no shortage of 'dough' in Haverhill, according to a survey by a well-known bread manufacturer. Kingsmill Bakery commissioned a survey which found that 72 per cent of people questioned in ...
Slumber party helps break records.
Jul 31, 2008 ... GIRLS from Sixth Haverhill Brownies used their pyjamas and toothbrushes to get themselves into the record books and raise money for charity. The brownies bedded down at the Old Independent Church Hall, in Haverhill, overnight, as part of the Giant Sleepover, a national event ...
Bringing some sunshine as part of Prince's team.
Jul 31, 2008 ... by Mark Beaumont A HAVERHILL teenager has completed a Prince's Trust team-building programme at West Suffolk College in Bury St Edmunds. Laura Mason, 18, from Haverhill was part of a team that painted the decking, archway and walls in the garden of the college's ...
Sport gets a [pounds sterling]25k boost in the town.
Jul 31, 2008 ... A NEW community sport network which has been given [pounds sterling]25,000 by Sport England to help get residents active, was due to be launched in Haverhill yesterday. West Suffolk Sport will distribute the money to provide a range of activities such as projects with young ...
Culina doubles park's numbers.
Jul 31, 2008 ... by Steve Barton THE impending opening of Culina Logisitcs distribution warehouse at Haverhill Business Park will more than double the number of people working on the park as its success story continues to gather pace. Culina is the latest in a series of major new ...
School trips get Variety.
Jul 31, 2008 ... GRANTA Special School, in Linton, can now take entire classes on school trips thanks to the donation of a third coach from the Variety Club. The money for the specially-adapted coach, which can be accessed by wheelchair-bound students, was raised thanks to a charity ball at ...
Water way to support those without a tap to drink from.
Jul 31, 2008 ... by Steve Barton CHILDREN at a Steeple Bumpstead activity club raised hundreds of pounds for some of the poorest communities of the world by carrying water around their local basketball court. The 22 five to ten-year-old members of Pilots walked two circuits of the ...
Going out in style.
Jul 31, 2008 ... YOUNGSTERS at Happy Days in Stradishall have performed an end-of-term concert for their parents. The children, all aged four and five welcomed their parents to the childcare centre in Lancaster Way on Monday. Caroline Priestley, owner, said: "It was a great success ....
New roles will see couple helping to shape area's future.
Jul 31, 2008 ... by Steve Barton THE former head of St Edmundsbury Council, who left her post to be replaced by her husband, has officially taken up her new role as chief executive of the East of England Development Agency (EEDA). Deborah Cadman, who in 2006 received an OBE for ...
Charity group boosts funds for hospice.
Jul 31, 2008 ... FOUR Wickhambrook women who got together to organise a series of charity fund raisers, have passed the [pounds sterling]5,000 mark. Ros Clarry, Marise Morling, Lyn Newell and Jan King, who make up Wickhambrook Charity Fundraisers, held a dance at the village hall, with 60s band ...
Rotarians welcome their first female president.
Jul 31, 2008 ... SAWSTON District's Rotary Club named its new president as Sue Coles, at a recent hand-over dinner held at Abington Hall, Great Abington. Sue, who has lived in the area for 24 years, has been a member of the Rotary Club for four years, and will be the club's first female ...
Runners' cash will help group carry on with its charity work in Africa.
Jul 31, 2008 ... A GROUP from Haverhill charity Focus On Africa has just returned from a trip to Kenya. Members of the team were allowed to take extra baggage by Virgin Airways, which enabled them to take a suitcase full of football boots, donated by Haverhill Rovers Juniors, and a suitcase of ...
'Disappointed.. . . but we're not defeated'.
Jul 31, 2008 ... by Derek Bish HANLEY Grange will be easier to deliver after the Wellcome Trust's decision to pull out of negotiations with Jarrow Investments last week. That is the view of Nick West, Hanley Grange's project director, who refused to admit defeat as the battle between ...
Ronnie Kray paintings fetch [pounds sterling]16,550 at auction.
Jul 31, 2008 ... A COLLECTION of paintings by notorious gangster Ronnie Kray has fetched more than [pounds sterling]16,000 at an auction in Clare. The oil landscapes - seven of which were painted between 1971 and 1977 by Kray while in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight and carried his ...
Summer fun playscheme gets off to a lively start.
Jul 31, 2008 ... WITH the start of the summer holidays comes the return of Haverhill's Summer Fun Playscheme, based in the town's Castle Manor Business and Enterprise College, Eastern Avenue. This was the first week of the volunteer-run scheme, which provides plenty of activities for children to ...
Town groups join forces in bid to solve parking problems.
Jul 31, 2008 ... A HAVEBURY Housing tenant in Wickhambrook has criticised his landlord's grass-cutting contractor, Norfolk County Services, for the 'mess' its workers leave behind. Ken Meekings, who has lived in Nunnery Green for ten years, said the visibly poor standard of the contractor's work ...
Blazing Big Bash.
Jul 31, 2008 ... ALTHOUGH there was no showpiece 10-5-1 run this year, Sunday's Haverhill Big Bash went down a treat under the blazing summer sunshine. With more than 100 car boots, 25 local organisation stalls and plenty more entertainment there was lots to see and do at Haverhill Recreation ...
Serious sexual assault on girl, 12, on old railway line.
Jul 31, 2008 ... by Derek Bish POLICE are hunting a man who dragged a 12-year-old girl into bushes on the old railway line in Haverhill last week, and seriously sexually assaulted her. Police launched a major investigation on Thursday, after the man attacked the girl and her friend. ...