THE THURSTON & IXWORTH Issue 27 January 2021 Delivered from 29/12/20 Also covering Thurston - Ixworth - Bardwell AAdvertisingdvertising SSales:ales: 0012841284 559292 449191 wwww.flww.fl yyeronline.co.ukeronline.co.uk The Flyer From your MP Jo Churchill on bigger premises. We have some year, I am keen for us to make 2021 of excellent Suffolk Cheese, Suffolk wonderful traders across Suffolk, and I the Year of the High Street. Putting brewed beer and cracking Suffolk Pork would encourage constituents to visit the heart back into the centre of our often draws many shoppers on to high as many as possible. communities. Our high streets have streets and into our eateries in our towns and villages. faced unprecedented challenges in I understand that during the pandemic the past few years, and ultimately the many more of us became reliant on Living in Suffolk means we can pandemic has unfortunately hastened online shopping as a necessity, due to sometimes be truly spoilt with the the demise of several well-known the lockdown. However, we are now quality and abundance of locally brands. Nevertheless, new businesses able to visit our shops, restaurants, sourced goods. My mission in 2021 are appearing and many of them cafes and bars in person, all who have is to be a shop Suffolk, shop local exciting small independent traders. worked hard to ensure they have champion, encouraging as many a safe COVID secure environment. Whether on our high streets in Bury individuals as I can to buy from local On my many visits to businesses St Edmunds, Stowmarket or Needham retailers and producers in order to across the constituency I have been Market or out and about at some keep our rural economies energised For the start of a new decade, 2020 impressed by the level of ingenuity of the hidden gems dotted around and our community spirit vibrant. As was not what many of us would have and thoroughness in the measures our beautiful villages we have some we know shopping local drives money wanted or expected. However, with they have put in place, for the safety of fantastic small business with truly into our local economy, supports jobs the rollout of a COVID vaccine, I am customers. unique offers. With eclectic offers so and helps maintain our high streets hopeful we are moving towards a and town centres. In 2021 please shop where for example can you buy a We are known as an area which life which will more closely resemble local, use them or lose them, lets make car, a Steiff teddy bear or a humber welcomes visitors from across the UK normality. We have already come along this year the regeneration of our local doucy beer? Answer, Jefferies in to our towns and villages, many of way, with each month bringing new retail economy to ensure our high Bacton. Across the constituency we whom come to experience not just our learning on the virus, on treatment and streets are thriving for years to come. on prevention. have a number of success stories, one amazing rural landscape and historic such being the café Wrights in Bury architecture but also to visit of our However, with the reopening of retail St Edmunds which has become so incredible small businesses. The lure and hospitality and the start of a new popular that they have had to take SHOW SUITES Looking for care for your loved one? 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But despite what you may hear in the national news Bury St Edmunds is far from all doom and gloom. Businesses that have been doing well have been By Our Bury St Edmunds Business able to expand into larger units – such From the Dean’s Desk Support and Marketing Offi cer Mike as Wright’s which has taken on the Kirkham By Rev Ben Edwards. Cathedral curate former Pizza Hut premises. Carluccios As 2020 draws to a close we hope has also re-opened at arc shopping that 2021 will bring more optimism centre and Burger Amour is a new I could have and togetherness – for the most part and our lives will all start to get venture for the town too. picked no such good, life-giving and wholesome RevRReev BenBeBen EdwardsEdEdwwaardrds back to what we used to know as better day things – will no longer hold fear and If you are not sure where to start in normal. Our businesses here in Bury St than today to anxiety for us. the town centre then make sure you Edmunds town centre will need your sit and write download the LoyalFree App which has support more than ever – not just in this piece at And Mary gives many of us hope that some fabulous trails to guide you to the January sales but throughout the my desk. It is running through all those things is various different businesses – whether year. It’s never been more critical to both the day something deeper; God, the Universe, you want to know who is dog friendly ensure you shop local and support the Church the Divine, the Source, the Blueprint or who has a special offer at the businesses that play a role not just celebrates – whatever name you might want moment you’ll fi nd all the information in our local economy but among the the Conception of the Blessed Virgin to give to that ‘something else’, that there. As the name suggests the app whole community. Mary, and also the day in which a UK ‘something deeper beneath the surface is completely free to download too. of it all’. And not only that, but that grandmother, Margaret Keenan, had If you are lucky enough to receive If you don’t use a smartphone then this something is For Us, and In Us and become the fi rst person in the world an Our Bury St Edmunds Gift Card in don’t forget to look on the Our Bury With Us. And always has been. And to be given the Pfi zer Covid-19 jab as your Christmas stocking then you’ll St Edmunds website for all our latest always will be. part of a mass vaccination programme. have the option to spend it in over 50 news and information about the town different shops and businesses. It’s centre too. Both fi gures, the teenage girl Mary Both these women symbolise the very not just for retail though, you can buy and grandmother Margaret, provide real hope we fi nd at the very centre Finally all of us at Our Bury St tickets for the Abbeygate cinema with us with symbols of hope. Receiving of who we are as human beings. To Edmunds wish you a peaceful it, visit a beauty salon, have a meal or the vaccine, Margaret gives us hope Be With, is the yearning at our very Christmas and all the very best for a coffee or use it in one of our unique that we have now begun to emerge hearts. And this year ahead we are 2021. Thank you for supporting the independent shops, even a handful of from a time of sadness, of loss, of graced with the hope To Be With those town centre during the recent diffi cult market traders and some of the bigger disruption and chaos. Hope that we we love again. This is both what Mary times. names too. Remember that giving and can now look to our future as a nation, and Margaret bring to us in their using an Our Bury St Edmunds Gift For more information visit www. as a region and as a community, that choice to say ‘Yes’. Card helps support our town centre ourburystedmunds.com or download we can begin to plan for a return to a following what has been one of the the LoyalFree common life where closeness, touch Please mention ‘The Flyer’ when responding to advertisements THE FLYER | JANUARY 2021 3 The Flyer Happy new year So inside this month we have news The Flyer of a winner of the prize draw, some awards for the netball ladies and details of the art exhibition that will THE THURSTON & IXWORTH come to town. So there are good things happening now and more to Issue 27 December 2020 27/12/20 Delivered from come. Also covering Thurston - Ixworth - Bardwell Advertise in the Flyer So if you are holding an event, a Tel: 01284 592 491 meeting or fundraising then let me Steve Powell know, I will publish all I can, and see if we can spread a few smiles around Copy deadlines: Hello and welcome to the fi rst edition the town. Happy new year to you all, of the fl yer in 2021, and I am sure that thanks for reading, keep smiling and there are few ( like me) who are not February edition: 15/01/21 soon I will see you around the town.