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Our response is to plan for Charles Dickens The funding will mean a new worrying the worst and work for the best. found our accessible entrance can be built on the coronavirus is town to be a north side of the station. A link to the for everyone. I I would encourage everyone to follow welcoming new car park and station concourse have spoken to the advice of NHS England at https:// place. It is still will ensure everyone in our community my West Suffolk www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/. the case today will benefi t from easier access to our constituents Please be vigilant and continue with as it has rail network. thorough handwashing. Follow the at length Jo Churchill achieved a bit of about it and advice. notoriety lately Bury St Edmunds Station is a busy transport hub for our town, both for have heard from thousands of deeply This is a huge challenge for all of on the silver screen in The Personal those visiting our wonderful area, concerned people from right across us and we will be presented with History of David Copperfi eld. However and for residents commuting to work, the country and I have also heard from diffi cult times in the weeks ahead. But one thing that has changed is the college or travelling for leisure. UK nationals living abroad. As health together, we will pull through this. We improved connectivity between our secretary, I have the UK’s best medical communities, with the world in general have the funds that were pledged by As demand grows at our busy station, professionals advising how to best becoming a much smaller place. the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the it is vital we have the facilities to meet deal with this very challenging disease. recent Budget to help us get through it Building connectivity between our it. This is of particular importance as Coronavirus is the most serious health and we have our wonderful NHS. I am communities, in part by improving we encourage people to move from crisis the UK has faced in over a incredibly proud of the way that we transport links, brings societal benefi ts. road to rail to continue their onward century. We do not know exactly how are tackling this. I am wishing all of This is why I have made pushing for journeys, as part of our efforts to cut hard coronavirus will hit or how long you the very best. infrastructure improvements a priority carbon emissions. since being elected. The new trains have also increased Now Bury St Edmunds Station has also capacity, and while there have been allocated Access for All funding been issues with their performance, as part of a Government program reliability has improved in recent 60 years of the National to improve accessibility at stations. weeks. Fantastic news and something I have long campaigned for alongside local Ensuring these facilities are accessible Womens Register groups. to all should be foremost in our minds. Bury St Edmunds NWR group organised and hosted a celebration day at the Athenaeum on Wednesday 26th February to mark the 60th anniversary of NWR. 130 members from 21 groups across the Eastern Area attended the event and enjoyed talks from Paul Stancliffe of the British Trust for Ornithology and local speaker and Guildhall tour leader Catherine Buchanan, followed by a 3 course lunch, live link to an interview with NWR founder Maureen Nicol and a local Brewery, or The Guildhall. Other toast to NWR’s Diamond Day. During events were held across the country, the afternoon members attended and media coverage included an one of a selection of pre-booked interview with National Organiser workshops - either botanical art, Natalie Punter on BBC Radio 4’s garden wildlife or spinning & weaving, Woman’s Hour. For further information a talk on The Women of Bury St about Bury St Edmunds group please Edmunds, or a tour of the Cathedral, visit the website at www.nwr.org.uk. Please mention ‘The Flyer’ when responding to advertisements THE FLYER | APRIL 2020 3 The Flyer The Bury St Edmunds Flyer From the Dean’s Desk “The Covid-19 new starts: there is no judgement from Established 2017 pandemic feels the risen Jesus as he looks at each of like we are us in love. about to be overwhelmed by Or, like ‘doubting Thomas’, maybe a tsunami, but we have doubts about this strange Advertise in the Flyer until it hits we story of Jesus returning from death. won’t know how Like Thomas, we may have moments Tel: 01284 592 491 bad it will be” – when we long for some hard evidence. Thomas’ story affi rms that we are Philip Banks so said someone I bumped into allowed that longing, and our doubts Copy deadlines: this week. In the don’t cut us off from the power of face of so much personal, medical and Jesus’ love. May edition: 15/04/20 fi nancial anxiety – some real, some To all who are anxious or despairing, imagined – what is there for you and the message of Easter is this: God’s June edition: 15/05/20 me as we refl ect on the Easter story? love is stronger. If the heavy stone The fi rst witnesses to the resurrection of the tomb cannot defeat God, are the mourning women, including then anything is possible. With God, Mary the mother of Jesus. Perhaps there is always hope, there is always Established reputation and unrivalled distribution some of us, like them, are weighed forgiveness, there is always a future. down by problems, bereavement, “God so loved the world, that he gave Bury St Edmunds, Horringer, Great Barton, Westley, Fornham St Martin illness, loneliness, and feel there is no his only Son, so that all who believe in escape. Easter offers new hope: Jesus him should not perish but have eternal The Bury St Edmunds Flyer is part of the Flyer Group established in 1997. 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This, though a serious and solemn occasion, is a glorious one in that Jesus, God’s Son, gave His life as an atonement for the sins of humankind, available for all 8 people, and for all time. This makes a way for all to come to God and receive forgiveness and new life through Jesus’ death, and His victory over death, in the resurrection, celebrated on Easter Day. The Churches in Bury St. Edmunds and District are holding a special event on Good Friday, 10th April. This will 10 19 begin with a service in the Cathedral at 10.30 am, after which there will be a procession, starting at about 10.55, from the Cathedral across Churches Together is grateful to the ADVERTISING SALES: steve.powell@fl yeronline.co.uk Angel Hill, up Abbeygate Street and town council for their support for this CUSTOMER SERVICE: accounts@fl yeronline.co.uk along Buttermarket to the Market event, for police security and road Square. The walk will be behind a large closures, and to St. John’s Ambulance. NEWS ARTICLES: newsdesk@fl yeronline.co.uk wooden cross and be accompanied by PRINT AND DELIVERY: jon@fl yerpress.co.uk a single drum beat. Our purpose is to identify with the basic facts of the Christian gospel on At the Market Square there will be this special day, in the Good Friday a stage near Moyses Hall, where, at Walk of Witness, to communicate the © The Bury St Edmunds Flyer 2020. Views and opinions mentioned are not necessarily those of the about 11.10. there will be a short editor or proprietor and no responsibility will be taken for the accuracy of information contained great message of Easter, and to be a herein. For further information on advertising in the Flyer, please call 01284 592491 or email: service of songs, and dramatised united witness to our town.