Starting @ 1p on ebaYto reach our 9,000 visitors each month.

The Stratford St Andrew garage was broken into last night but the thieves failed to rob the cash dispenser; more encouragingly an engraved gold watch has been handed in to the Woodbridge cop shop.

Go to the A to Z to find your village or town.

The Invited's gig at the Meerkat Hall Saxmundham this Saturday has been CANCELLED but the table top sale in Laxfield is still on and with bacon rolls!

42 year old Simon Adams has been missing from Wenhaston since yesterday, more details on the bulletin board.

On Framlingham's Market Hill Saturday fishmonger Darren Smith still had after three weeks his young assistant despite her getting the new shoes, and Gosia's Over the Moon has a new coffee machine.  In Fram's industrial south Hatcher Components have upset the packaging waste police (thanks Alan).

Framlingham's taxi service Warne's Cars' 01728 724160 saw the value our BOGOF offer and took the Fram page.

What time zone is near the coast?  Ooh, about 1954.

Local author, Framlingham community centre trustee and a man with a genuinely extraordinary life experience Paul Briscoe passed away aged 80 the Sunday before last.

The Framlingham 10k Sunday week won't be taking entries on the line this year though the fun run will.

You can tell the typically over 9,000 monthly visitors to near the coast about yourself from £4.65 per month, more info here.

No surprise is it that we are the nation who invented the Pakamac?

Newest Suffolk Constabulary police dog is Springer spaniel Arnie.  He is trained to sniff out drugs and later this year he'll be taking a course in firearm recovery then, rumour has it, a NVQ in leisure management and perhaps one day his own boutique hotel.

Earlier this week a fighter plane at the former RAF Bentwaters in Rendlesham had its nose cone stolen.

Near another coast Littlehampton has not only the somewhere or another's longest bench but probably the biggest marital aid too ... it must be the name ... Littlehampton.

Rural Myth 28:  Never do any more than token promotion for your event in case too many people turn up and then you won't have the pleasure of moaning how the village doesn't support you.

Tell us about it on ntc@nearthecoast.com or text 07970 865730

Guess Who? 4 (no, there isn't a bloody prize) and we want to know who's the lad in the middle?

You can order near the coast prints at PhotoBox.

... and you think we rant?  Also on the board a piano FOR SALE in Badingham and the Gentleman Plumber recounts the heady days of the Fram Ram Raiders and the Bruisyard Bruisers.

After the Framlingham Crown and Anchor's "REFERB" the style is changing to posh food and includes a massage facility ... so not so much a gastro pub then more a gastro rub.

10-5pm tomorrow at Framlingham Sports Club it's the 60th East Anglian Archery Tournament and spectating is FREE, more info on the board.

07:03am  What's that Skip?  You read in the Daily Mail that town councils give you cancer?  Don't worry Skip town councils never give anybody anything ... except maybe the pip.

Brundish has been lively, earlier this week a car ended up in a garden and hit the oil tank and Wednesday night there was a house fire (thanks Sandra).

An art and photography exhibition this weekend at the Riverside Centre, Stratford St Andrew.

Don't know what was happening in Framsden Saturday (the Helmingham

Hall Suffolk Rare Breeds was Sunday) but Amanda Frost has put some rather nice pix on the board.

Don't expect to get a smoke in the Framlingham Co-op this morning (thanks Writer) and good luck everybody with those A level results.

All eleven of these wrappy round sports posts thingies went missing from Robert Hitcham's school in Framlingham.  Three have been found but if you see any more contact the school 01728 723354 or take them to Fram nick.

A handbag was blatantly stolen from a shop in Trinity Street Southwold yesterday.

The Greener Garden Guy arrives on a pedal bike with trailer and only uses tools powered by lithium ion rechargeable batteries so the whole thing is a calmer, quieter experience.  Ssshhh...

Advice on how to use nearthcoast to promote your event here.

Is this what's happened to all those Framlingham ducks?

Probably not a good idea to start a fire on Sizewell beach in the early hours.

Advertising rates near the coast compared on the board.

Working lemon cocker spaniel called Scramble has been missing from Easton since Saturday afternoon.  Info to ... too late, doggy's back home!

When using Word to print a series of A4 sheets to make up for example S/A/L/E, F/E/T/E or L/Y/N/C/H/I/N/G you might find that the pull down font sizes doesn't go big enough.  Don't panic you just type in a font size ... and the next one rrrright in here please!

A red Hyundai in Aldeburgh had it's rear window smashed yesterday.

ASTONISHER No.1:  Country singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson has a boxing blue from Oxford ... we know but it's true.

Framlingham camera club members Sue and Mike Westgate are showing at the Beyond The Image gallery near Eye all this month.

Some of the M25 between the A12 and M11 junctions now has four lanes but the road surface is a bit patchwork.

Man in the Hat wants a couple more Framlingham first responders, you don't get a nee-naw but you might get a t-shirt.

12:15pm:  The slalom one digest is going out on email.  Get the digest by clicking on Helen and Rose.