Leiston

th 5 Dec 2024	♫ 7:30 tomorrow night in St Mary's Sweffling the Leiston Royal British Legion is giving a Christmas Brass Concert, tickets in advance or pay at the door and include interval refreshments.
we 27Nov 2024	A car parked in Carr Avenue *Leiston* had paint and glue sprayed over the windscreen, and bodywork sometime between Thursday and Saturday.. If you have info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/66565/24, you can call 101.
fr 20 Sep 2024	Officers were called late Monday afternoon to a crash on the B1119 Saxmundham Road *Leiston* involving a white Fiat 500, black BMW 114i and a red Mercedes lorry. Both car drivers and a passenger were taken to hospital with the Fiat driver sustaining a serious leg injury. The road remained closed until 9.50pm. Any information please contact police quoting reference: 37/52937/24, you can call 101.
fr 2 Feb 2024	Regrettably des' dinners never visited the Leiston Volunteer and now like the Farnham George and Framlingham White Horse it's long gone.
sa 28 May 2022	Leiston's Jubilee Weekend nest weekend is a two day event, Friday a free 8+ hours music festival including a skate jam presumably on the skate park.
th 24 Mar 2022	The George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham High Street in support of the Ukraine is raffling Sunflower by Leiston artist Karen Lear. The £5 tickets are available from the gallery or JustGiving.
tu 9 Nov 2021 shed	Sometime between 3.30pm Saturday 6 November and 7.30am Sunday entry was forced to a shed in Seaward Avenue *Leiston* and gym equipment stolen. Any info contact Suffolk Police quoting ref 37/62696/21, you can call 101.
tu 13 Apr 2021	A sad irony that Sunday's one vehicle fatal accident was in Lovers Lane Leiston ... trees can be very unforgiving.
su 7 Feb 2021	01:00pm: With power cuts (Leiston is out at the mo') around near the coast caused by the Beast from the East's younger brother you are likely to find this UK Power Networks' incident map useful (enter your postcode).
tu 20 Oct 2020	The Leiston Long Shop reopened last week ... didn't know it had closed.
th 3 Sep 2020	Late Saturday night a silver BMW 325 collided with a Leiston tree giving the driver potentially life changing injuries ... even quite small trees can be surprisingly unforgiving.
fr 7 Jun 2019	Wednesday evening at the Long Shop Leiston a talk on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway with and coffee available ... so a big night out then.
we 16 Jan 2019	2019 is the centenary year of Aldeburgh Cinema (Leiston pre-dates them by five years) and they will be marking it with their first Cinema on the Beach. We've been told that Aldeburgh folk would dress up for the cinema and be greeted in the foyer by the manager wearing evening dress, a floral buttonhole and smoking a cigar ... these days celebrities don't feel the need for a tie:)
we 19 Dec 2018	We regret missing the dry ice rink in Leiston earlier this month, it was terrific fun when six years ago a dry ice rink settled in Framlingham for one night only.
tu 2 Oct 2018	Lowestoft had a fishing village known as The Grit, and Poetry People are presently touring a words, music and film show about the lost village. You've missed it in Halesworth but there are shows this week in Ipswich, Leiston and yes Lowestoft.
tu 24 Jul 2018	This coming weekend the Leiston Long Shop Museum is appropriately having a Steam Punk Spectacular. Patrons are encouraged to dress in keeping.
fr 24 Nov 2017	JOBS In Framlingham a recruitment consultant wanted and a deputy shop manager for the EACH charity shops in Fram and Leiston.
fr 28 Oct 2016	♫ Tonight the Broadside Boys are supporting Merry Hell at the Leiston Cinema and there's a pop-up bar from the Chillesford Froize too.
su 2 Oct 2016	Missing Leiston teenager Amelia Cook found safe and well yesterday.
fr 30 Sep 2016	Worryingly 16 year old Amelia Cook went missing in Leiston overnight.
mo 11 Jul 2016	Prescription drugs and cash stolen in a Leiston street robbery yesterday.
mo 3 Aug 2015	The Suffolk Community Foundation has grants from £500 to £20,000 available for local charities, community groups and social enterprises that are delivering work within the town council boundary of Leiston and Sizewell.
mo 20 Apr 2015	An 18 year old Saxmundham man has been arrested in connection with the two stabbings in Leiston Friday night.

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