Orford

th 22 Aug 2024	This coming three day bank holiday weekend is the 37th Havergate Adventure. Hourly a boat from Orford Quay to the island where a RSPB volunteer guides. Free binocular hire and at the end a sit down and refreshments to buy... you need to book.
sa 13 May 2023	Vehicle documents were stolen from a car parked near Castle Green *Orford* between 7:00pm last Wednesday and 8:30am the next day. Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/27216/23, you can call 101.
fr 31 Mar 2023	Between 12am 26 Sunday and 12pm 29 Wednesday March someone scratched and dented the bodywork and window of a car parked in Gedgrave Road Orford. Any info contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/18354/23, you can call 101.
su 4 Dec 2022	Orford Festive Makers' Market until 4pm today.
mo 21 Nov 2022 Doreen Carwithen	♫ Radio 3's Composer of the Week is Doreen Carwithen, this could be of interest to near the coast because her 1964 Suffolk Suite has movements Orford Ness and March: Framlingham* Castle*.
th 10 Nov 2022	Confusedly we expected a cheery Susan Calman eating free ice cream but Villages By The Sea Orford had an over gesturing man presenting with the intensity of a war zone visit ... this is the third series?!
fr 16 Sep 2022	♫ Ness Fest tomorrow is at Sizewell not Orford and on the cliffs? Perhaps in Suffolk the definition of a cliff is not that ambitious and has anybody found a Fest programme?
su 10 Jan 2021	Pleasant Green is near the coast's own Sleepy Hollow and is between Orford and Rendlesham.
mo 29 Jun 2020	Set in East Suffolk police whodunit DI Gwen Danbury has no strong sense of place but name checks locals like Orford and Woodbridge. Copper Gwen Danbury is played by the delicious Annette Badland who was so wonderful in Little Voice.
fr 3 Jan 2020	If Count Dracula's ship the Demeter had got lost in all that fog and landed at Orford instead of Whitby after his first meal in Suffolk the Count would know a lot more about tractors.
we 15 Nov 2017	♫ The Black Tower is a BBC parable play with music by Benjamin Britten and first broadcast in 1946. According to at least two Radio 3 presenters it was recorded in Orford church.
tu 31 Oct 2017	This Saturday Slow Living Market at Orford Town Hall.
mo 15 May 2017	Saturday afternoon an Orford traffic incident involving two Volkswagens ended with a VW Bora hitting a tree and injuries to both driver and passenger ... trees can be very unforgiving.
sa 9 May 2015	9:30am Starting right now the fourth annual Orford real food market.
th 12 Feb 2015	Possibly related incidents at the beginning of the month in Chillesford and Orford. Last weekend in Dennington thefts from three cars and in Rendlesham forest from two cars.
fr 21 Nov 2014	There have been three Orford business break ins in the first half of this month.
we 12 Nov 2014	£3,500 stolen from Orford restaurant Sunday night.
su 3 Aug 2014	♫ Today at the Orford Pavilion (no, we don't know where it is either) it's the twelfth annual Picnic Jazz with singers Emma Divine and Natasha Hodge bill topping, and police will be at Rendlesham Forest Centre (we sort of know where that is) 10am-2pm raising cycling safety and security awareness.
mo 14 Apr 2014	A 23 mile bike ride this Saturday to support Cancer Research UK starting and finishing at the Blaxhall Ship and taking in Snape, Orford and Iken with a short cut for thems that wants it.
th 23 Jan 2014	DI Gwen Danbury is a written for radio drama with the DI stationed at East Suffolk Police HQ and doctors who retire to Orford, so very near the coast but it doesn't really have a sense of place just the occasional Muffolk accent.
mo 23 Jul 2012	What an nice change to have some half way decent weather yesterday for Mouth to Mouth's production of the musical Godspell in the Debenham Angel's garden. As always quirky, original and highly entertaining we were particularly pleased to see a ukulele move from the pit to centre stage. Mouth to Mouth's garden tour continues this coming weekend at Hoxne, Framlingham, Orford and Laxfield.
we 18 Jul 2012	The Orford Jolly Sailor's brass tortoise's been pinched and even worse some stinker has stolen the swings from the Ufford playground.
sa 22 Oct 2011	A Blackberry found at Orford Castle ... probably not a kindness to return it.

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