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Top ballet company to hit Lowestoft

ONE of the world's top ballet companies is to return to Lowestoft's Marina Theatre early next year, the Journal can exclusively reveal today. February 20 will see the long- awaited return of the Moscow City Ballet and Orchestra.

It will save you ££££s

03 September 2010 08:02

HOUSEHOLDERS in Waveney were promised this week that a plan to merge council management teams would help deliver the best possible services and save thousands of pounds of public money.

Lowestoft life as seen on the newsreels

03 September 2010 07:07

UNTIL recently, it was only available to historians and film researchers. But now the Pathé organisation, of cinema newsreels fame, has opened its archive to anyone, providing free access to its incredible historical records and giving us a fascinating insight into Britain, and our own neck of the woods, in days gone by.

Lowestoft panto lead set to star in EastEnders

02 September 2010 15:25

IT might be renowned for its despair, family fall-outs, tears and heartbreak, but one of the nation's favourite soap operas is set to provide a happy-ever-after for Lowestoft's Marina Theatre.

Factory worker drowns after crash

02 September 2010 14:21

A FACTORY worker died after his car skidded on ice and turned upside-down into a water-filled ditch, an inquest has heard. Marcello Ferriera Da-Costa, 37, of Audley Street, Great Yarmouth, who was described by his brother as a “safe driver”, was found in an upturned car in a ditch next to the A143 Beccles Road in Haddiscoe on February 20, 2010.

Walker discovers part of bomb on beach

02 September 2010 08:42

PART of a bomb was discovered on a north Suffolk beach yesterday. The front end piece of ordinance was found by a local walking on the stretch of beach between Dunwich and Walberswick at around

One of the 'Aliens' invasion puzzles holidaymakers

02 September 2010 07:00

An “invasion” of little green men has been puzzling locals and holidaymakers all around the borough of Great Yarmouth. Paddling in the waves at Gorleston beach, on a boat on the Broads, playing crazy golf at Pirates Cove, dressing up in the Elizabethan House museum.

Two survive as plane crash lands on Suffolk sandbank

01 September 2010 22:44

Two people were airlifted to hospital last night after a light aircraft crash landed onto a sand bank off Orfordness on the Suffolk coast. The plane crashed at North Shipwash off Orfordness at just after 6.

Firefighters deal with kitchen blaze

01 September 2010 15:05

FIREFIGHTERS from Lowestoft spent 15 minutes tackling a kitchen blaze in the town. Crews from Lowestoft South and North Lowestoft fire stations were called to Manor Court, off Dukes Head Street, at 11am this morning.

Crackdown on Lowestoft's unlicensed taxis

01 September 2010 13:20

People are being encouraged to check that taxis are safe and legal after reports of unlicensed drivers operating around Lowestoft. Waveney District Council, which licenses taxis and private hire vehicles, has asked taxi users to report any suspected unlicensed cabs in a bid to crackdown on fake drivers.

Police appeal for missing man

01 September 2010 12:34

Police are appealing for help in tracing a 42-year-old man who went missing from his home in Wenhaston, near Halesworth, yesterday. Simon Adams was last seen at his home address around 7.

MMR plea follows surge in unvaccinated mums

01 September 2010 12:15

DOCTORS are emphasising the importance of the MMR jab after a surge in the number of women who become pregnant, but have never had the vaccination themselves.

First turbines completed at offshore wind farm

01 September 2010 11:00

The region's green energy credentials will soon get a major boost as the first turbines at the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm are now in place and ready to start generating power.