THE BURY ST EDMUNDS Issue 43 January 2021 Delivered from 28th January Also covering - Horringer Westley - The Fornhams - Great Barton AAdvertisingdvertising SSales:ales: 0012841284 559292 449191 wwww.flww.fl yyeronline.co.ukeronline.co.uk The Flyer 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 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 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 BenBBeen EdwardsEdEdwawardrds 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 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 BURY ST EDMUNDS come to town. So there are good things happening now and more to Issue 43 December 2020 rom January Delivered f come. Also covering - Horringer Westley - The Fornhams - Great Barton 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 February edition: 15/01/21 there are few ( like me) who are not soon I will see you around the town.