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Today in the Old Theatre Framlingham a charity auction of works donated by local artists in support of RSPB Minsmere's wildfire appeal ... bidding starts at 2pm.

Police are asking motorists in the area at the time of the fatality on the Orwell Bridge to review any dashcam footage.  Any info contact Suffolk Police quoting 37/61160/26, you can call 101.

Perhaps because she sets the hearts aflutter in men of a certain age Joanna Lumley live at the Aldeburgh Cinema tomorrow is SOLD OUT.

♫ Cornish (part of the Celtic fringe) singer/songwriter James Dixon plays the Debenham Community Centre tonight, tickets a reasonable £12 in advance or £14 on the door. ♫

♫ Soprano Rebecca Knight and mezzo Karen England will be the Opera Babes at the Halesworth Cut tonight. ♫

♫ The Fressingfield Chapel Hall Arts is in itself a venue worth visiting and it's also where Fressingfield Sounds are hosting their monthly concerts.  Next month Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin and Huw Watkins piano perform Spiegel im Spiegel. ♫

#FollowFriday ain't too proud to beg eh?

Can't remember honest Aldeburgh folk being noted for enjoying a laugh but starting tonight it's the second Aldeburgh Comedy Festival.  We've heard of and like all of the acts though a teensy bit vague about Dane Sofie Hagen.

Even if yours is a local event just for local people you could still benefit from How to promote your event.

Throwback Thursday: 14 years ago today we visited Valerie Leverett Memorials in Farnham.  They were on that tiny industrial estate by the A12's 90 degree turn in the village... both the business and estate are gone.

Sunday after next motorcycle trials at Blaxhall.

You can always tell which of the woodpigeons on your lawn is the Brexiteer, it's the one so busy bullying the others it gets to eat less bird seed.

♫ The Phoenix Singers will be 50 this year and celebrating with a December concert of Purcell. Bach, Mozart and Pittoni.  What's more they have a new musical director the acclaimed singer and conductor Tom Appleton. ♫

Suffolk Overheard: I feel sorry for people but they don't feel sorry for me.

♫ Next week's Wednesday Fram Concert players are Clélia Iruzun and Shelley Levy with a programme including Brahms and Schumann for their clarinet and piano duo. ♫

The Queen's description of Jeffrey Archer as irrepressible and not without flaw rings like the working class lovable rogue who is in fact an annoying little squit with criminal tendencies.

Astonisher No.71: After Hitler's 1938 invasion of Austria (the Anschluss) Austrian Jews immediately suffered violent repression.  In time Sigmund Freud the founder of psychoanalysis understandably wanted to flee to the UK but the UK like other European countries was not issuing visas to Jews.  Fellow psychoanalyst Earnest Jones was in the same ice skating club as the home secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and Jones persuade Hoare to issue Freud a visa ... no, you couldn't make it up ... same ice skating club?!

Santa's red hatted head is already popping up; breakfast with Santa at the Snape Maltings and steam train rides at the Wetheringsett Middy.

11am-2pm today drinks & nibbles at the George Farnham Gallery in Sax for Lupe Cunha's Seeking the Colour which runs until the 26th.

Launch party last weekend on Sizewell beach of the mobile wood fired Sizewell Sea Sauna which starts regular weekend service this weekend.

The fortnightly(ish) digest emails out today at tea time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy.

Ruby Tyger 2 opening next month on Saxmundham High Street.

The Presence of Snowgood is a modern day horror starring Hammer Horror queen and Talking Pictures' The Cellar Club presenter Caroline Munro, see it at Dennington village hall last Friday of the month.