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From your MP Jo Churchill popular that they have had to take and hospitality and the start of a new incredible small businesses. The lure 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

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News from the BID most challenging years in recent times. 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 From the Dean’s Desk By Our Bury St Edmunds Business able to expand into larger units – such Support and Marketing Offi cer Mike as Wright’s which has taken on the By Rev Ben Edwards. Cathedral curate Kirkham former Pizza Hut premises. Carluccios As 2020 draws to a close we hope has also re-opened at arc shopping centre and Burger Amour is a new I could have and togetherness – for the most part that 2021 will bring more optimism venture for the town too. RevRReev BBeBenen EdEEdwardsdwawardrds picked no such good, life-giving and wholesome and our lives will all start to get better day things – will no longer hold fear and back to what we used to know as If you are not sure where to start in than today to anxiety for us. normal. Our businesses here in Bury St the town centre then make sure you sit and write Edmunds town centre will need your download the LoyalFree App which has And Mary gives many of us hope that this piece at support more than ever – not just in some fabulous trails to guide you to running through all those things is my desk. It is the January sales but throughout the various different businesses – whether something deeper; God, the Universe, both the day year. It’s never been more critical to you want to know who is dog friendly the Divine, the Source, the Blueprint the Church ensure you shop local and support or who has a special offer at the – whatever name you might want celebrates businesses that play a role not just moment you’ll fi nd all the information to give to that ‘something else’, that the Conception of the Blessed Virgin in our local economy but among the there. As the name suggests the app ‘something deeper beneath the surface Mary, and also the day in which a UK whole community. is completely free to download too. of it all’. And not only that, but that grandmother, Margaret Keenan, had If you don’t use a smartphone then this something is For Us, and In Us and If you are lucky enough to receive become the fi rst person in the world don’t forget to look on the Our Bury With Us. And always has been. And an Our Bury St Edmunds Gift Card in to be given the Pfi zer Covid-19 jab as St Edmunds website for all our latest always will be. your Christmas stocking then you’ll part of a mass vaccination programme. have the option to spend it in over 50 news and information about the town centre too. Both fi gures, the teenage girl Mary Both these women symbolise the very different shops and businesses. It’s real hope we fi nd at the very centre and grandmother Margaret, provide not just for retail though, you can buy Finally all of us at Our Bury St of who we are as human beings. To us with symbols of hope. Receiving tickets for the Abbeygate cinema with Edmunds wish you a peaceful Be With, is the yearning at our very the vaccine, Margaret gives us hope it, visit a beauty salon, have a meal or Christmas and all the very best for hearts. And this year ahead we are that we have now begun to emerge a coffee or use it in one of our unique 2021. Thank you for supporting the graced with the hope To Be With those from a time of sadness, of loss, of independent shops, even a handful of town centre during the recent diffi cult we love again. This is both what Mary disruption and chaos. Hope that we market traders and some of the bigger times. can now look to our future as a nation, and Margaret bring to us in their names too. Remember that giving and as a region and as a community, that choice to say ‘Yes’. using an Our Bury St Edmunds Gift For more information visit www. we can begin to plan for a return to a Card helps support our town centre ourburystedmunds.com or download common life where closeness, touch following what has been one of the the LoyalFree

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Hospice’s project for young people wins Nursing Times Award which adults can sometimes be reluctant to have, is led by hospice educator Lisa Patterson. During the awards ceremony, which took place virtually in November, the importance of Life’s Questions was recognised, with judges saying: “Given A hospice initiative which encourages the signifi cant impact bereavement children and young people to talk and death can have on child health, openly and honestly about life’s wellbeing and life outcomes a public challenges has been nationally health approach to conversations recognised. about life, death, loss and grief in St Nicholas Hospice Care’s Life’s partnership with schools should be Over the last three years, the initiative, the students they have talked with, Questions has scooped a Nursing celebrated. Our winner has led the which is supported by volunteers, and we see this in the post-it note Times Award after been named the way in developing an informed and has continued to grow. Sessions are responses after a session, and I’m winner in the award’s children’s tested approach that is sensitive yet delivered in secondary and primary looking forward to training more services category. impactful. It will make a difference on many levels, and this work is schools, as well as colleges and groups volunteers soon. particularly important in light of the in the community. “Winning this award hopefully gives global Covid-19 pandemic.” Currently, Lisa is producing a training us the national (even international) It was a visit to a school in May 2017 manual, which once fi nished, will reach to share with other hospices that prompted Lisa to come up with allow Life’s Questions to be shared or schools to take on once training the idea. She wanted to bring the more widely. through our pending training manual.” topics adults can often fi nd themselves Lisa said: “What an amazing accolade To date, the Life’s Questions team shying away from into open to have been given considering it all have facilitated 85 sessions (14 conversations with young people. started in my kitchen as a test to see if during recent months through the With the support of other hospice a group of local teenagers thought it online communication tool Zoom) to teams, Lisa planned a pilot session could be useful in their schools. 1,618 children, young adults, parents, which took place in her kitchen. teachers, support staff, public and “I am super proud that the hospice With feedback showing a need for health and social professionals. and our local community have Life Question’s Lisa, began to drive embraced this project and supported If you’d like to fi nd out more about the initiative forward, and soon had wholeheartedly. Life Questions, and hear from some of Life’s Questions, which focuses on invitations from schools who wanted the initiative’s volunteers, visit https:// helping children and young people her to come in and speak to students. “Our volunteers that we trained last to have conversations around topics, stnicholashospice.org.uk/support-and- year have made such a difference to information/education/lifes-questions/

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Bury Postcard club postcards to fi ll one side, while the WALTON BURRELL address and sender’s message were on POSTCARDS the reverse. This gave photographers a whole new market for their pictures, David Addy writes: and very quickly the collecting of picture postcards became a national Walton Robert Burrell, who was pastime. profoundly deaf from birth, was born at New Hall Farm, Fornham St Martin, When the Great War began in 1914, on 16th February 1863. The farm Burrell was in his 50s. He documented eventually became known as Hall the army camps and hospitals around Farm as memories of the previous old West Suffolk throughout the war. farmhouse faded away. He lived there His picture postcards were eagerly with his parents and some sisters until bought by servicemen to send home to 1919. worried relatives and sweethearts. He also became a friend to injured men, He attended a school for the deaf in bringing them tobacco, sweets and London, returning home in 1881 and sometimes garden fl owers to cheer took a course in photography with the wards. John Palmer Clarke at his 7 Angel Hill Studio, Bury St Edmunds. By now, he The postcards shown depict the French had a brother and two sisters who Ward at Ampton Hall, and Canadian were also deaf. Seven other siblings soldiers being treated at the hospital were born with hearing, and his in Mill Road, Bury St Edmunds. brother, Frank Burrell, became well For more information about the Club/ known locally because of his garage in Events please contact Sue Rawles Mustow Street. on 01284 769480 or Maureen By 1903, Walton had been selling his Barker on 07702 243267, email pictures to the press occasionally and [email protected], entering club competitions. The Post Facebook “Bury St Edmunds Postcard Offi ce introduced new regulations Club”. in 1902 which allowed pictures on

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LOCAL PUB COMES BACK ‘FIGHTING’ WITH AWARDS DOUBLE! Bury’s Oakes Barn free house has stronger. With our seven day a week forward to the next stage of the the fl ag for West Suffolk, and bring something to celebrate having opening and expanded range of food, competition. Hopefully, we can home the National award in 2021, reopened after the second national which now includes breakfast and all- progress through the rounds, waving along with a return to normality!” lock down. It has picked up not one, day meals, we can continue to trade but two, prestigious and coveted under the Tier 2 restrictions whilst still awards from the West Suffolk & retaining an emphasis on serving the BURY ABBEY ROTARY CLUB AND KIDSOUT Borders branch of the Campaign for local community, Nick McIlwraith, of Real Ale (CAMRA). Following voting Pakenham, Fox is equally delighted BRING CHRISTMAS JOY TO CHILDREN IN amongst CAMRA’s’ thousand strong with his awards. REFUGES branch membership earlier in the year, the St Andrew’s Street local in Bury “Things are very different for a rural St Edmunds, which prides itself on a pub” he said. “it is not practical for us community focus, with real ale, cider to provide every customer with a meal the Covid-19 pandemic. Each toy and home cooked meals, came out while our potential trade is so limited box contained £80 of gender/age on top winning both the West Suffolk by the Tier 2 restrictions and we have appropriate toys designed to promote ‘Town Pub of the Year’ award and the therefore yet to re-open. I look forward social and educational development overall ‘West Suffolk Pub of the Year’ to welcoming my regulars back again and family bonding. The boxes were accolade for 2020/21. A close runner as soon as it is reasonably practicable. packed by KidsOut and distributed up, The Fox, Pakenham, took both Meanwhile I’m grateful to CAMRA straight to refuge for mothers to give the Cider Pub and ‘Rural Pub of the and our locals, who have supported to their children in time for Christmas. Year’ awards. Oakes Barn will now go us since we rebuilt and opened the pub from its derelict state four years Stuart Hughes, President of Bury Abbey forward to the County, Regional and Rotary Club said “We were delighted National championship award stages ago The plight of rural pubs strikes a chord with CAMRA’s campaigning. to be able to support children in of the competition organised annually our community by working together by the CAMRA, whilst having a full Many such pubs are at risk and were struggling before the pandemic. Chris The local Bury Abbey Rotary Club with other Rotary Clubs and KidsOut. twelve months to celebrate its success teamed up with national children’s We hope that each toy box brought locally. Bailey, Branch chair commented “as a lobbying organisation we are doing charity KidsOut and other Rotary happiness and joy to each child The awards have, for the fi rst time, are everything in our power to support the Clubs from the East Anglian region receiving one. Through fundraising supported by local builder merchants licensed trade thorough these diffi cult to provide Christmas presents to efforts Rotary clubs in the East Anglia and ironmongers, D J Evans. A times. Not least we applaud everyone survivors of domestic abuse. Children District collectively raised funds for delighted Heather Warren, owner of to support their local pub in any way living in refuges across East Anglia 550 boxes and our thanks go to all Oakes Barn, said “2020 has been a they can. In many villages and market received a box of brand new toys and those involved with the fundraising real struggle. We’ve endured months of towns this really is now a ‘use it or games to enjoy over the festive period. effort.” closure with two crippling lock downs lose it’ situation”. Christmas is always tough for families but our locals and our CAMRA branch, The fi nal word came from Heather in a refuge, with Christmas 2020 in making these awards, realise we being harder than usual because of have come out the other side a lot Warren. “We’re already looking

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Cricket club News BURY WI Hope springs eternal with a fair wind sport is important for young people BURY W.I. managed a few get culminated, due to the delay in the 2021 will be a memorable year in to understand the spirit of cricket. On togethers during the summer at various signals, in a multi-layered many ways for all of us. From the point Friday evenings we hope to continue Nowton Park, and since then have rendition of ‘We wish you a Merry of view of cricket we look forward to to create a good family atmosphere been keeping in touch by phone and Christmas’. It was followed by the a full season, we will be entering 4 at the club with parents enjoying their e-mail, and regular newsletters. As tale of never-ending turkey leftovers, Saturday, 2 Sunday men’s teams in time together. it looks as though we will be unable presented as a version of the ‘Twelve league competition and a ladies team to meet up in person for some time days of Christmas’. The meeting and junior cricket at all levels. We have July will be a busy month with Suffolk playing Cambridgeshire in a 3 day yet, we are still trying to encourage fi nished with a few games of ‘Zingo’, designated Friday evenings for junior members to use Zoom. For the a variation on Bingo but played with cricket coaching sessions when we aim Minor Counties fi xture on July 11/12 and 13 and the return of the England December meeting, the committee cards. A different, but entertaining, to have many young players girls and put together a short Panto based evening. boys learning to enjoy the sport. Team PCA Masters to play the club on Friday July 23rd. on Cinderella. On the night, suitably attired in a variety of wigs, make up Best wishes for a Happy Christmas and and sparkly extras, they encouraged Healthy New Year their audience to join in with booing Isabel Glasscock BURY W.I. and hissing whilst dispensing a mixture of old and topical jokes. This It’s back for 2021!

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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM BURY ST EDMUNDS TOWN COUNCIL By the time you read this, Christmas tourism organisation for the town and audit opinion from the External 27 January – Planning Licensing and will be over, but you may have been the wider area. Auditor. Finance Committee – 6pm helped by two of the initiatives funded Grant funding of £9,277 was awarded GRANT FUNDING & LOCALITY 27 January – Full Council – *7pm by the Town Council to support our BUDGET FUNDING residents and businesses over the to the Bury Water Meadows Group festive period which were agreed at to develop a management plan Grant funding and Locality budget for ‘No Mans Meadows’ and the funding are available – for more 10 February – Planning Licensing and its meeting in November 2020. In fact, Finance Committee – 6pm most of the agenda items that night ‘Crankles’, and for bird boxes, planting, details please visit the Finance page of related to spending money - from the equipment and tools and additionally, our website www.burystedmunds-tc. 24 February – Planning Licensing and grant funding application made by the for an initiative to further increase gov.uk/home/fi nance/. If you have any Finance Committee – 6pm Bury Water Meadows Group through awareness of the group and the questions, please do not hesitate to 24 February – Full Council – *7pm to considering next year’s budget and training for its volunteers. In addition, contact us (see ‘Ways to contact us’ the amount of Council Tax the Town funding of up to £5,000 was allocated below). to provide support for vulnerable Council needs to fund its expenditure MEETINGS SCHEDULE (given that is its only source of income, people over the 2020 Christmas period * (or on conclusion of the previous apart from around £19,000 raised from by the creation of healthy, nutritious Residents are invited to attend any of meeting if later) menus, recipe cards and interactive the allotment rents). our meetings which are currently being WAYS TO CONTACT US video and the distribution of ‘a meal held remotely via video conferencing The current year’s budget is in a box’ for those on their own, via and, if they wish, to speak about or Email us [email protected]. underspent in many areas and agencies with existing links to those ask questions about any item(s) on uk consequently the council’s general in need. Another project provided the agenda. Visit the ‘What’s On’ Tweet us @bstetc reserves are likely to be higher, funding for the provision of secure page of our website to download the providing money which could be cycle storage in the Cathedral grounds agenda for each meeting (which is Like us on Facebook www.facebook. used to fund some of the 2021/2022 and a ‘park and walk/ride’ facility only available a few days before the com/Bury-St-Edmunds-Town- budgeted expenditure, thereby from the Olding Road car park during meeting). Council-225340431193216/ reducing the amount of Council Tax the pre-Christmas shopping period. charged. The budget will be fi nalised The Town Council is also proposing The meetings schedule for the next Phone us on (01284) 725111 at the Council meeting on 27 January to look into the costs of secure cycle few months is shown below and Write to us at 79 Whiting Street, Bury 2021 but a couple of changes were storage in the Town, including possible is available on the ‘Meetings & St Edmunds, IP33 1NX agreed. The fi rst was to increase the locations of where it might go, and Committees’ page of the Council’s amount of locality budget funding the ongoing costs of security and website www.burystedmunds-tc.gov. for all Councillors by £1,000 to maintenance. uk: bring about projects/and or events 2021 to ease the burden of the Covid-19 Finally, the process of auditing of the council’s accounts for the year ended pandemic. The second was to provide 13 January – Planning Licensing and 31 March 2020 has been concluded an additional £15,000 of funding for Finance Committee – 6pm ‘Bury St Edmunds and Beyond’, the following receipt of an ‘unqualifi ed’

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