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Video Watch Suffolk poet Luke Wright perform live on Twitter every night during lockdown

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Jayne Lindill

Have you heard award-winning Bungay poet Luke Wright performing live on Twitter every evening at 8pm? Picture: Luke Wright

Amazing award-winning poet Luke Wright, from Bungay, hasn’t let Coronavirus silence him and plans to keep going until audiences can return to the theatres, arts centres and venues he would usually perform in.

Why Suffolk needs to make the most of Ed Sheeran’s open-air homecoming concerts

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Ed Sheeran watches on during the championship match between Ipswich Town and Aston Villa at Portman Road on Saturday 21st April 2018 - Picture: Steven Gardiner

Terry will be in the crowd when mega star and local legend Ed Sheeran performs in the county town

Jamie Cullum: ‘The left-field jazz that you can dance and lose yourself to is what Cheltenham does well’

Thursday, March 14, 2019 Katie Jarvis

Jamie Cullum will be showcasing songs from his new album at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival – and it’s going to be emotional

Suffolk barrister Sarah Langford releases new book examining Britain’s justice system

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Barrister Sarah Langford hopes her fictionalised accounts of some of the challenging cases she’s defended will give people a deeper understanding of the justice system | Words: Catherine Larner - Photo: Sophia Schorr-Kon

Love is on the air: Paul Barnes and Helen McDermott

Monday, May 14, 2018

Radio and TV presenters Paul Barnes and Helen McDermott talk about living and working together

Lesley Dolphin: It’s 40 years since I joined the BBC

13:30 Lesley Dolphin

BBC Radio Suffolk broadcaster, Lesley Dolphin has made her home at Felixstowe. Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN

BBC Radio Suffolk afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin talks about her long career and why she’s glad to call Suffolk home

Lynne Mortimer: Why Family Fortunes is for dinosaurs

12:03 Lynne Mortimer

According to Family Fortunes, all shopped out, and with nothing on TV and having finished her library book, it's only a matter of time before Mother starts moaning. Image: Getty Images

What’s wrong with Family Fortunes? Well some of the questions need updating for a start.

What makes a true Suffolk person?

Yesterday, 11:33

At a time when being a Suffolk girl has never been more important to me, or pertinent, exactly how Suffolk am I? | Words: Lynne Mortimer

Video Hear Dunwich bells ring again on band’s new film

Sunday, July 12, 2020 Jayne Lindill

David Stainer, of the folk/rock band The Silburys, on location at Dunwich. Photo: The Silburys

Suffolk folk/rock band The Silburys have created an atmospheric video about the city beneath the waves as the backdrop to their original song, The Dunwich Bells

The crucial wartime role of Suffolk’s airfields

Monday, July 6, 2020

Lancaster crew of 90 Squadron at Tuddenham, 1944

Ken Delve looks at the key role Suffolk’s many airfields played in the defence of the country during the early years of the Royal Air Force

Get your hands on a limited edition deckchair decorated by a renowned artist

Thursday, May 7, 2020 Jayne Lindill

Three of the limited edition deckchairs on sale in the Art For Cure Big 100 Artists online exhibition, from left Barbara Pierson's Testing the Water, Richard Knight's Spitfires Ascending and Birdget Davies Scarlett i Gold

There are only 25 of each specially designed deckchair being offered as part of the Art For Cure Big 100 Artists online exhibition, which is raising funds for vital breast cancer support.