Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England) back issues from May 2007:
Man denies Ipswich murders.
May 02, 2007 ... A man accused of murdering five Ipswich prostitutes will go on trial in January after pleading not guilty to the charges. Forklift truck driver Steve Wright, 49, was arrested after one of Britain's biggest manhunts was sparked by the discovery of the body of Gemma Adams at ...
Car vandals spark calls for parking.
May 03, 2007 ... Angry neighbours who have pledged [pounds sterling]10,000 of their own money for a project to protect their vehicles are demanding to know when work will begin after yobs left a pensioner's car upside down. Vandals flipped over the 86-year-old woman's Aixam car in the early ...
Georgina so proud of model success.
May 03, 2007 ... A curvy teenager has hit out at the trend for size-zero models and proved bigger is beautiful in a national competition. Eighteen-year-old Georgina Veness, from Bulmer Tye, who is a size 12-14, has spoken of her delight at beating 5,000 competitors to be named one of six ...
New pub will bear old name.
May 03, 2007 ... A name from Sudbury's past will grace the town's newest pub. JD Wetherspoon has chosen the name of a former general store on the site of its megapub in North Street. The Grover and Allen takes its name from a general store which stood on the site before the Co-Op. ...
15th century gold cross comes home.
May 03, 2007 ... A medieval gold cross that caught the heart of Queen Victoria will return to Clare where it was first found 141 years ago. The intricately-designed Clare Reliquary was discovered in 1866 during excavations as the new railway line and station were being developed at Clare Castle ....
Upset as club for elderly faces axe.
May 03, 2007 ... A club which provides elderly people with a hot meal and company once a week is closing because of funding cuts. The Friday Club, run by Age Concern at the St John's Methodist Church Hall, in Sudbury, is having its annual [pounds sterling]11,500 grants from Suffolk County ...
Revealed: New face for store.
May 03, 2007 ... Clothing firm Fat Face - due to open in Sudbury next month - has revealed how it will transform a famous Sudbury shopfront. Initial plans from the firm, which has taken over EW King, on Market Hill, caused concern for members of pressure group the Sudbury Society, who were keen ...
Tesco takes pharmacy decision to appeal.
May 03, 2007 ... Tesco says it will appeal against the decision to reject plans to open a pharmacy in its Sudbury store. The supermarket was refused permission to open the pharmacy because Tesco refuses to sell emergency hormonal contraception, or the morning-after pill, to girls under the age ...
Football - Digging in for a perfect pitch.
May 03, 2007 ... Long Melford's Stoneylands pitch, which has come in for criticism in recent months, had some much-needed remedial work done at the weekend. A large number of volunteers gathered with spades, rakes and wheelbarrows as several loads of topsoil were delivered. Both ...
Boxing - Mark on top in return.
May 03, 2007 ... A long drive to Aylesham in north Norfolk paid dividends for two of the youngest members of Sudbury Boxing Club, Mark Reeve and Michael Readings, who both won points decisions. Reeve's opponent was Liam O'Flaherty from Hornchurch BC, whose trainer had asked for a return bout ...
Swimming - Kern takes over coaching duties.
May 03, 2007 ... Kern Death has been appointed acting head coach by Hadleigh Dolphins. He has a long and successful history with the club, having been a member and a swimmer since the age of five. Some 25 years later, Kern still competes as a master swimmer in Suffolk ASA winter ...
Rugby - Reunion proves a big success.
May 03, 2007 ... Sudbury Ladies enjoyed a reunion at Moorsfield on Saturday, with tag matches before getting down to a contact game against visiting Hertford, Sudbury winning 40-5. This was the first time in six years Sudbury had fielded a senior ladies side. Despite the fact that many of the ...
Hockey - Top coaching for juniors.
May 03, 2007 ... Four players from Sudbury Hockey Club were invited to a roadshow at Ipswich where they enjoyed a day's coaching from international players. India Fitch-Holland, Sophie Childs, Will Fisher and William Dudley attended the roadshow, which was open to 11-16-year-olds, one of four in ...
Football - AFC march on in style.
May 03, 2007 ... Enfield Town 2 AFC Sudbury 4 AFC Sudbury produced a magnificent team performance in the Ryman League division one North semi-final play-off in North London on Tuesday. Victory takes them through to Saturday's final at Harlow Town, with a place in the premier division ...
Football - Cunningham heads for glory.
May 03, 2007 ... Tilbury 0 AFC Sudbury 1 DANNY Cunningham's headed goal late in the first half gave AFC Sudbury victory at Tilbury on Saturday to secure the last of the Ryman League division one North play-off places. Had it not been for AFC's poor performances in recent matches a ...
Football - Upgrading goes on.
May 03, 2007 ... Hadleigh United's clubhouse upgrading continues, with the new toilet block at the Millfield being opened. The official opening was performed by Ted and Tommy Clark, who have both made important contributions to the building of the new facilities, which include a disabled toilet ...
Police warn elderly after flat ransacked.
May 03, 2007 ... Police hunting conmen who have duped old people have stepped up their warnings after three men ransacked an elderly couple's Sudbury flat. Officers say they are becoming increasingly concerned about the spate of crimes that is deliberately targeting the elderly. The ...
Speed cameras - week of May 7.
May 04, 2007 ... Suffolk SafeCam's mobile safety camera locations for week starting Monday, May 7 are: A11, A12, A14, A134, A143, A1101, A1065 A137 Brantham A140 Coddenham, Thwaite & Stonham Parva A1071 Boxford A1088 Euston, Norton, Fakenham Magna & ...
Babergh Council election results.
May 04, 2007 ... Conservatives became the biggest party on Babergh on a dreadul night for Labour. Here are the full results ... Babergh District Council Overall Conservative (19), Liberal Democrat (16), Independent (8) Alton Gordon Jones Con 559 Trot ...
Babergh Tories celebrate.
May 04, 2007 ... Tories were celebrating after gaining eight seats in the Babergh Council election - but it was a bad day for Labour who lost all six of their seats. The Conservatives now have 19 seats, compared to the Liberal Democrats' 16 but the Independents held all their eight seats ...
Harlow Town 2 AFC Sudbury 2 aet (Harlow win 5-3 pens).
May 06, 2007 ... AFC Sudbury's bid for promotion to the Ryman League premier division ended cruelly in a penalty shootout at Harlow on Saturday. David Head, Michael Brothers and Shane Wardley all scored from the spot, but with Harlow leading 4-3 in the shootout, and superb save by James Hasell ...
Three bailed over fatal crash.
May 07, 2007 ... A third person arrested in connection with a road accident in which three teenagers died has been bailed. The victims were thrown from a Ford Escort which collided with a VW Bora on the A131 between Halstead and Sudbury. A 17-year-old male, a 26-year-old man and a ...
Pubs step up crime fight.
May 08, 2007 ... Publicans are being issued with radios to give them an instant link to each other and police in case of trouble. The scheme is part of a drive to cut alcohol-related crime in the Sudbury area. Eleven radios plus a desktop version and an extra ...
Woman dies on rail line.
May 08, 2007 ... Sudbury commuters were held up as trains were delayed or cancelled today after a suspected suicide on the main line near Colchester this morning. The death, at Kelvedon station, forced trains in both directions to a standstill, with a bus service running between Colchester and ...
School in mourning.
May 10, 2007 ... Friends of the three teenagers killed in a tragic road accident on Sunday are struggling to come to terms with their deaths. The three 15-year-olds - Chris Jolley, Richard Warren and Danny Archer - were popular year 10 students at Hedingham School where grieving classmates are ...
Town pubs tune in to stop crime.
May 10, 2007 ... Publicans faced with troublemakers will soon be able to send out an instant warning to fellow landlords and the police. Licensees of Sudbury's town-centre pubs and clubs are being issued with radios which will keep them in constant touch. If problems start they will ...
Tories take control.
May 10, 2007 ... Conservative candidates were celebrating after their share of council seats soared in last week's elections. Labour was obliterated from both Babergh district and Sudbury town councils, losing all its seats. The Tories seized control of the town council, winning an ...
Snub likely over next town mayor.
May 10, 2007 ... Political rivals plan to oust Sudbury's deputy mayor in a vote that would traditionally have seen her elected to lead the town council for the coming year. The new ruling Tory group on Sudbury town council say they will not vote for Liberal Democrat Debbie Thomas whose move up ...
Fresh alert over doorstep conmen.
May 10, 2007 ... Police are becoming increasingly concerned about crimes that are deliberately targeting the elderly. Three pensioners were conned by distraction burglars in Bures and Sudbury over a 15-day period and officers have now revealed a fourth incident bears similar traits. ...
You and your Free Press - making a difference together.
May 10, 2007 ... Local Newspaper Week is going green this year in celebration of how papers and their communities make a difference to the environment. The Suffolk Free Press is proud to be part of a community which cares about its environment and that is why we launched our successful Social ...
Pensioner fights back over crime.
May 10, 2007 ... A pensioner has hit back at vandals who broke CCTV cameras outside his home - by setting up a neighbourhood watch. Christopher Berg, 69, who has lived in Great Cornard for more than 30 years, took action after cameras at the front of his home in Broom Street were damaged. ...
Joy as Kizzy comes home.
May 10, 2007 ... Kizzy the lost spaniel was back home at the weekend after being missing for more than three weeks. Owner Allison Jessop had spent 23 days distraught after Kizzy ran off from her sister's home in Belchamp Otten. The four-year-old springer spaniel turned up around five ...
Football - Promotion the target for 2008.
May 10, 2007 ... AFC Sudbury manager Mark Morsley has set himself and his players a goal for next season - to win promotion to the Ryman League premier division. Having so narrowly missed out in Saturday's division one north play-off final, Morsley is determined to go one better in twelve months ...
Football - Morsley wishes Harlow well.
May 10, 2007 ... AFC manager Mark Morsley, accepting defeat with grace and generosity, had this to say on the Harlow Town website messageboard. "Can I take this opportunity to congratulate all at Harlow on your victory yesterday, and to wish you all the best for next season in Ryman Premier. ...
Football - Disappointment at the death.
May 10, 2007 ... Harlow Town 2 AFC Sudbury 2 (aet. Score at full-time 2-2. Harlow won 5-3 on penalties) AFC Sudbury's season ended in play-off final disappointment on Saturday after Harlow Town won the lottery of a penalty shoot-out to gain promotion to the Ryman League premier ...
Football - Cruel end to brave, battling display.
May 10, 2007 ... The lottery went to a lottery, and to the last kick of the last game. You can't get much closer than that. Play-offs are a desperately cruel way of deciding the outcome of a season, and to lose in a penalty shootout ... So Harlow keeper James Hasell earned the plaudits ...
Football - Ricks hat-trick too late to save Halstead.
May 10, 2007 ... Halstead Town 3 Wisbech Town 3 Despite another Jamie Ricks hat-trick, and leading 3-1 with ten minutes to go, Halstead were pegged back, Gareth Pritchard also completing a hat-trick, to confirm it's Ridgeons League division one for the Rosemary Lane outfit next ...
Motorsport - Jamie in the lead.
May 10, 2007 ... Castle Hedingham driver Jamie Perry took first place in the second round of the MG Owners Club championship at Donington, leading from the start. After finishing second to Doug Cole at Mallory in the first round Perry, in his ZR160, was expecting a tough race, and had to be on ...
Cricket - Sudbury fall short.
May 10, 2007 ... Sudbury were beaten by six wickets in their Two Counties division one match at Coggeshall, Al Younger top-scoring with 66. David Fulton and Peter Siegert started brightly against an attack which included the very lively Garraway, Fulton edging behind for 15. Siegert ...
Cricket - Brothers set up Hadleigh.
May 10, 2007 ... Hadleigh made it two wins out of two with an excellent victory at Bury St Edmunds II on Saturday. After their mammoth run chase against East Bergholt the previous weekend, this was another compelling encounter which did not finish until 8.30pm. Hadleigh did ...
Town pub for sale.
May 10, 2007 ... Sudbury's last remaining freehold freehouse is up for sale. The Prince of Wales, at the junction of New Street and Prince Street, has ...
Mathew, 19, killed in collision.
May 10, 2007 ... A teenager from Stanstead was killed as he walked along a Norfolk Road. Nineteen-year-old Mathew Theobald, of Alston Crescent, was involved in a collision with a white Vauxhall Vivaro van on the A149 Heacham, between Kings Lynn and Hunstanton at 9.40pm on Tuesday. ...
Man in barbecue horror.
May 10, 2007 ... A 42-year-old was taken to hospital suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation after a barbecue in his garden caught fire, engulfing fencing and rubbish. The fire started yesterday (Wednesday) just before 4am, in Tidings Hill, Halstead. The man, who was believed ...
Firms sign up to recycling site.
May 10, 2007 ... SUDBURY businesses are signing up to an innovative scheme based on the old adage that one man's waste is another man's treasure. The Eastex Material Exchange is a free online service for businesses, organisations, schools, societies and even individuals to help keep re-useable ...
New plans for Melford pond.
May 10, 2007 ... A village pond left devastated by "conservation" work will return to the way it was by the autumn - but campaigners are still not happy. The pond, in Laurel Drive, Long Melford, was nearly halved in size when silt was dredged from one end of the pond and dumped straight back ...
'He brought happiness to everyone's lives'.
May 10, 2007 ... Chris Jolley's mum, Amanda, is a governor at Hedingham School and parish clerk for Sible Hedingham. Dad Patrick is a parish councillor. Here, they pay tribute to their son ... "Chris was a very popular student. He loved school and the social life surrounding it, and ...
Tributes to A131 victims.
May 11, 2007 ... Poems by the brother and sister of Chris "Jolley" Barham lead tributes to the teenagers killed in the A131 crash between Sudbury and Halstead ... Chris my little bro, I watched u rise I watched u grow, I punched u then you'd punch me, I saw u ...
Speed camera locations.
May 14, 2007 ... Suffolk SafeCam's mobile safety camera locations for week starting Monday, May 14 are: A11, A12, A14, A134, A143, A1101, A1065 A137 Brantham A140 Coddenham, Thwaite & Stonham Parva A145 Shadingfield A1071 Boxford A1088 ...
Crime update - May 14.
May 14, 2007 ... Two vans had door locks damaged and a moped and bicycle were stolen during one night in Sudbury. The Suzuki moped and bicycle were stolen from a front garden in Salisbury Terrace. The moped was later found burnt out in Cornard Road. A Mercedes Sprinter van had the ...
Woman assaulted behind Sudbury pub.
May 14, 2007 ... A woman was indecently assaulted behind the Pied Cow pub, Sudbury, in the early hours of Sunday. The 28-year-old was walking to the pub between 1am and 1.25am on Sunday, with a man she had just met at Vita's nightclub, in East Street, said police. The man dragged her ...
New mayor for Hadleigh.
May 16, 2007 ... A new mayor has been elected in Hadleigh. Mary Munson was deputy to previous mayor Penny Black. She said: "I will do my very best and I am sure that, with Jane Haylock as my deputy, I shall get every support I need and we will make a great success of it." ...
Football: Morsley's new AFC signing.
May 16, 2007 ... Read Thursday's Free Press to find out what AFC Sudbury manager Mark Morsley has to say about his first summer signing Leiston skipper Stuart Boardley is moving to King's Marsh Stadium, having agreed to sign a one-year ...
Sudbury tip to reopen.
May 16, 2007 ... Sudbury tip is due to reopen tomorrow (Thursday) after maintenance work. The site, in Sandy Lane, was closed on Monday for work to be carried out, but Babergh Council ...
Family's dream ends in despair.
May 17, 2007 ... It is a dream many council house tenants have - the chance to own the home they live in. For David and Danielle Getliff, last year it seemed the natural thing to do, to buy their own home in which to bring up five-year-old son David, and a second child which was on the way. ...
School tributes to Mathew, 19.
May 17, 2007 ... Staff and pupils at a Sudbury school have paid tribute to a former student who was killed on a Norfolk road. News of 19-year-old Mathew Theobald's death has left many who knew him at Sudbury Upper School shocked. Deputy headteacher Sally Scott said: "Mathew was a ...
Battling Zoe is learning to walk again.
May 17, 2007 ... A teenager has defied the odds to battle through and learn to walk again after breaking her back, legs and ribs in an horrific accident. Thirteen-year-old Zoe Talbot of Cottesford Close in Hadleigh was paralysed from the waist down, when she was 10 years old, after a concrete ...
Protester steps up People's Park fight.
May 17, 2007 ... A judge will be urged to block a legal move to stop Sudbury's People's Park being declared a public green before it is argued in court. Retired lawyer Barry Pamplin, who is now the defendant in the action brought by landowner West Suffolk Hospital Trust, will ask the High Court ...
Watching out for services.
May 17, 2007 ... A campaign group has changed its name as it looks to secure a new community hospital for Sudbury. The Walnuttree Hospital Action Committee (WHAC) has now become Sudbury WATCH - Working and Acting Together for a Community Hospital. WHAC members decided to change its ...
Asthmatic Bruno saved by steroids.
May 17, 2007 ... A cat with asthma has been given an inhaler like a human patient after almost dying of hay fever. The specially adapted mask delivers desperately needed steroids direct to his lungs, avoiding side-effects. Pedigree tabby Bruno's breathing problems became critical ...
Rotarian Peter is new town mayor.
May 17, 2007 ... Conservative councillor Peter Goodchild has been named as Sudbury's new mayor. Ruling Tories on Sudbury Town Council bucked tradition to deny Liberal Democrat Debbie Thomas, the previous deputy mayor, the chance to take the top role. John Sayers, who has been mayor ...
Albert on road to quiet life 50 years on.
May 17, 2007 ... A mechanic who has worked at the same garage for half a century is finally hanging up his overalls. Albert Crighton started work mending tractors at Riddelsdells Garage, Boxford, in 1957, aged just 15. Back then petrol was 25p a gallon, a year's road tax [pounds ...
Your chance to reward Sudbury service.
May 17, 2007 ... Have you had great service from someone working in a Sudbury shop or business lately? We are looking to find the shop and business workers who help make a visit to Sudbury a pleasure - and we want you to give them a pat on the back. The Free Press wants to reward ...
Chairman quits over pond row.
May 17, 2007 ... What started as a row over a pond in a picturesque Suffolk village this week resulted in the resignation of the chairman of Long Melford Parish Council. David Burch quit his post on Wednesaday following a meeting on Tuesday night where his fellow parish councillors refused to ...
Football - In memory of Clive.(Obituary)
May 17, 2007 ... It was a time for reminiscing at Blackhouse Lane on Saturday as old and new Cornard United players turned out in force to pay tribute to Clive Hesketh, a former manager of the club who died in November. The ex-Cornard United players, managed for the day by Clive's son James, ...
Football - Boardley first summer signing.
May 17, 2007 ... Leiston skipper Stuart Boardley is moving to King's Marsh Stadium, having agreed to sign a one-year contract with AFC Sudbury. Ipswich-born Boardley, 22, met with AFC manager Mark Morsley at the end of last week to discuss terms, and the first signing of the close-season will be ...