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fr 5 Jan
2018

Suffolk ConstabularyIn total a squall of six burglaries today and yesterday in Ipswich, Melton and Martlesham.  Officers are investigating if they are linked.

sa 30 Dec
2017

Wickes ... it's got their name on itA Wickes has appeared seemingly overnight next to the Martlesham Tesco.  That'll be nice, always found the Focus DIY on the retail park opposite handy and liked their own brand water based paints but they went bust in 2011.

fr 23 Jun
2017

An Ipswich man and a Martlesham man charged with the Framlingham pet shop burglary.

mo 13 Mar
2017

Police appeal about a black Corsa being driven erratically on the A12 near Marlesford last Monday.

th 10 Nov
2016

Police training at the Martlesham TescoAn older trolley pushing man at the Martlesham Tescos yesterday taking in the multiple police officers asked Are they real ones?  Yes.  Well they're the first I've seen in ten years. ... we think he was exaggerating a bit:)  It was a training exercise for soon to be constables who exhibited impressive self confidence dealing with the public.  Nice to know money is still available for training new blood.

tu 1 Mar
2016
St David's Day

Spices in gherkin jarsLife Skills 9:  Supermarkets that have a world food section (the Norwich Hartford Bridge Tesco has Nigerian 6% Guinness!) may have those large cellophane bags of ground spices at a pro rata one fifth the price of Schwartz refills.  We decant them into large one time gherkin jars and even then the jars aren't big enough.  Couldn't see any large bags in the Martlesham Tesco today but not surprisingly the Hackney Tesco does stock them.

we 17 Feb
2016

Scary looking two car crash - pic contributedA tragic irony in two road crashes around Ipswich last week.  Serious but not life threatening injuries from the scary looking crash in Foxhall Road Saturday night whilst a twenty month baby girl died in hospital after a Thursday lunchtime Martlesham crash that following drivers may have thought not serious.

sa 30 Jan
2016

Martlesham Tesco car park in 2005It must be approaching twenty years since the Martlesham Tescos opened (not then an Extra).  Cheap petrol meant you couldn't get onto the forecourt and we can remember thinking the BP garage opposite wouldn't last, it's still there though the tarmac by the entrance could do with some attention.

th 20 Aug
2015

The police have renewed their appeal about the traffic accident that closed the A12 near Martlesham Sunday and clarified that the 70 year old vintage tractor driver sustained a liver not head injury and remains in a critical condition.

we 31 Dec
2014

A laptop and jewellery were among the items stolen in a Martlesham house burglary Boxing Day.

we 2 Apr
2014

Another distraction robbery in the Martlesham Tesco's car park Monday.

tu 18 Feb
2014

An 80 year old woman was the victim of a distraction robbery in the Martlesham Tescos car park last Thursday.

mo 20 Jan
2014

A police crime reduction event 10:00-3:00pm tomorrow outside Next Martlesham ... handy for Costa Coffee.

tu 5 Nov
2013

♫ That's a pity, after 13 years the organisers of Martlesham's Music on the Green have decided it's got too big and this year's was the last.

we 25 Sep
2013

Tools stolen in Martlesham at the end of last week.

fr 9 Aug
2013

Cops giving security advice 11am-3pm today outside the M&S Simply Food (didn't know there was one) Martlesham.

th 18 Apr
2013

near the coast seems to be coming out of its winter lock down.  Tomorrow andClaire Weston - pic contributed Saturday there's the second bunch of Bikesafe courses at police hq Martlesham, Saturday evening we'll regretfully miss soprano Claire Weston's recital in Framlingham as we'll be at the Love Bout after party but Sunday we'll try for the Suffolk Mini Run ending in Aldeburgh and definitely Slice of Life's comedy evening in the St Mike's rooms.

su 17 Mar
2013
St Patricks's Day

Sgt Andy BuckFor Friday's Red Nose day Kesgrave's Cafe 66 had a cardinal cooking lunch and the local police pursued a comedy burglar through a Tesco Metro, boarded a number 66 bus to further pursue the miscreant through the grounds of police headquarters before capture in a Martlesham car park.

tu 3 Apr
2012

You can't help wonder where that bloke who stands by the entrance was last night when the Martlesham Tescos was robbed.

fr 7 Oct
2011

House sales around near the coastNot surprisingly house sales quiet near the coast except for Woodbridge.

su 22 May
2011

Saw a rabbit with myxomatosis on an A12 grass verge near Martlesham yesterday, it really is the most unpleasant disease.

tu 22 Feb
2011

Range Rover stuck on ridgeJudging by the signs around Waldringfeld and Newbourne they are pretty annoyed by BT's proposed 2,000 house development but at the Suffolk Land Rover Owners' Club off road course the object was the pursuit of fun.  Last time we visited it was dry and sandy but Sunday it was very suitably muddy with Landys getting stuck and a Range Rover that rolled on to its Pig in a fieldside ... all mostly ignored by the pigs in the field next door.  On the way back we saw the Melton Horse and Groom is still shut and in the Campsea Dog and Duck no lunch but good company.

tu 25 Jan
2011
Burns Night

Police dog Yogi

police dogs and handlersThe Suffolk constabulary is a small force with no dog breeding programme and just about all its police dogs are rescue dogs.  Rescue dogs do tend to have "issues" so it's much to the training and handlers' credit  that the force's 22 dogs enjoy rewarding lives and perform valuable service.  Surprisingly a dog van might containLotsa of very white teeth both a general duties Alsatian and a specialist sniffer dog, though they do each have a private compartment.  We learnt this today at police hq in Martlesham where there was a media show and tell in anticipation of the national police dog trials in April at the Trinity showground just up the road a bit.

th 6 Jan
2011

Blimey!  Three dozen (yes 36!) samurai swords stolen in Martlesham.

fr 7 May
2010

The count at police headquarters, Martlesham

Eddie Thompson looking boredSuffolk Coastal

Therese Coffey  Con  25,475

Daisy Cooper  Lib-Dem  16,347

Adam Leeder  Labour  8,812

Stephen Bush  UKIP  2,361

Rachel Fulcher  Green  1,103

more pix on Facebook

fr 30 Apr
2010

Therese Coffey with panini and chipsCoastal Suffolk Conservative candidate Therese (it's French) Coffey lives in Westleton so she can't get Channel 5 or Freeview and no doubt rubbish broadband.  When she asked BT why near the coast broadband is so rubbish so close to BT's research centre they said Oh, their broadband is rubbish too.  We found out yesterday at the Martlesham Black Tiles that Therese has stood as an mp once before, her rescued dog Rizzo is very patient, when she ordered the panini she hadn't realised it came with chips, and is very aware this time round she's not a shoo in.  More pix on Facebook

we 27 Jan
2010

Cash found in the Martlesham Tescos, lost by a tall lady?

tu 26 Jan
2010

View from behind the two Inspectors seats

News feeds in the control roomQuite a jolly last night when we visited the Suffolk Constabulary headquarters for a tour of the control room, artificially overfull with journalists but absolutely stuffed with computer screens some providing tv news channels so the ops know what's happening in the world.

mo 7 Dec
2009

What was a Little Chef on the Tesco's roundabout at Martlesham is now a drive through KFC.

su 9 Aug
2009

Three Land Rovers at Martlesham

Mini Land Rover with a problemCracking day at Newbourne near Martlesham for the Suffolk Land Rover Owners' Club Charity Driving Day.  The title may not trip off the tongue but it's free parking, free entry and £1.50 gets you a ride round their dramatic off road course, those of a younger persuasion can drive electric mini Landys on their own course plus all the usual stuff, cream teas, stalls, raffle.  Organised by a pleasant bunch of just a teensy bit mad enthusiasts in aid of Cancer Campaign in Suffolk we can't wait for an invitation back later in the year when it's muddy.

Land Rover at Newbourne off road course

su 12 Jul
2009
Music on the Green

Dancer at Martlesham's Music on the GreenHad no idea that Martlesham's Music on the Green was such a big thing and a freebie; big crowd, loads of food vans (was tempted by the chow mein) and Boulevard Blonde got people large and small on their feet.

tu 5 May
2009

32 year old man missing from St Clements, Ipswich might be camping in the Woodbridge/Martlesham area.

tu 10 Jun
2008

Packed bunch of potential Specials

Not only biscuits but crested crockery!The Specials Evening last night at Police HQ was the hottest ticket in town.  Chief Inspector Terry Byford said she'd never seen such a turn out of potential new specials; maybe it's because, unlike Radio Suffolk, you get biscuits.  When we arrived Sergeant Didntgethisname said "Take a seat".  "He's a bit optimistic" we thought but no, there's no upper age limit for specials and you don't have to be a British citizen just resident in the UK.

we 4 Jun
2008

Monday there's a come one come all info evening at Police HQ, Martlesham about becoming a Special.

we 23 Apr
2008

The Darsham garage was broken into Monday night and a load of cigarettes stolen, and a wallet pinched in the Martlesham Tescos turns up in Sudbury.

su 23 Mar
2008

The Tesco at Martlesham has got a defibrillator, Hacheston has got a village hall but it's up for sale and the shop has been let, and there's a motocross next Sunday the 30th at Blaxhall.

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