Stowmarket

th 26 Sep 2024	Throwback Thursday: 8 years ago today we punted German singer/songwriter KC McKanzie at the Stowmarket John Peel Centre as one half of Leisure Tank. We saw the show and afterwards most of the audience and some of the staff bought the cd. By some odd coincidence we accidentally encountered her again in the foyer of the Festival Hall.
mo 29 Jul 2024	Sunday night in Temple Road *Stowmarket* a touring caravan was set on fire, officers are treating it as suspected arson. Two people wearing motorcycle helmets were seen nearby. Contact Suffolk Police quoting ref: 37/42429/24, call 101.
fr 29 Dec 2023	Monday it's Steam and Light Festival at the Middy in Wetheringsett. What's more Eastern Counties Bus Preservation will be running a free shuttle from Stowmarket station.
we 9 Aug 2023 shed	Between Tuesday 1 and Monday 7 August a Titan hedge trimmer was stolen from a garden shed in St Edmunds Road Stowmarket . Any information please contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/46058/23, you can call 101.
su 8 Jan 2023	Big Little Crimes is a tv prog on BBC 1 at 10am in the morning. It describes how a minor police action like a routine car stop can lead to a major crime. This Wednesday it includes the giant gun stash discovered Stowmarket way in what became Operation Cannington ... we might even get a photo credit.
sa 5 Mar 2021 shed	An allotment shed was set alight near Newton Road Stowmarket between 1:00-3:00am last Tuesday 1st March. The fire was put out by the fire service but the shed and the tools in side were destroyed. Any info please contact Suffolk Police quoting crime reference 37/13121/22, you can call 101.
th 20 May 2021	JOB Listed as Framlingham but seems to be Stowmarket IT Technician/Trainee.
su 12 Jan 2020	Last Monday of the month Stowmarket auctioneers Bishop & Miller will be valuing antiques 10:00am-01:00pm at the Framlingham Crown.
su 9 Jun 2019	Expect some delays tomorrow around near the coast when the 2019 Women's Tour 2019 journeys from Beccles to Stowmarket.
su 28 Apr 2019	Model railway exhibition today in the Mid-Suffolk Leisure Centre Stowmarket.
mo 11 Mar 2019	This year's Women's Tour of Britain will again visit Framlingham but this year it starts in Beccles and ends in Stowmarket.
sa 26 Jan 2019	The BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket is open again and the Stowmarket Co-op garage has the metal framework in place for a substantial building.
we 23 Jan 2019	It's all the go in and about near the coast, temporarily closing petrol stations to re-model them, not an insignificant matter when there are so few to start with. Woodbridge (has it re-opened yet?), Co-op Stowmarket (not closed but building going on), Haynings Framlingham (reportedly will have a 24 hour self service pump) and now the BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket. Fortunately services just off the A14 on the other side of Cambridge are copiously resourced ... three Costa Coffee machines!
sa 14 Apr 2018	Tomorrow afternoon in Stowmarket professional wrestling including a womens' three way and in the evening Wes Weston's Bluesonics at the California Social Club Ipswich, reckon you could probably take both in. ♫
tu 20 Mar 2018	JOB To start ASAP general labourer near Stowmarket.
tu 27 Feb 2018	JOB Full time Junior Personal Assistant wanted in Stowmarket.
we 29 Nov 2017	JOB Mother of two with health problems seeks a Cleaner/PA in Great Finborough the other side of Stowmarket.
su 12 Feb 2017	We think it was Jo Caulfield on tv (before she changed her hair style) who dealt with two bloke hecklers by Where are your girl friends? Outside grazing? Her current tour The Customer Is Always Wrong is at the John Peel Centre Stowmarket this Friday.
we 16 Nov 2016	Around near the coast theatre companies are putting their Christmas shows together. In Fressingfield Sunday Roughcast Theatre were rehearsing a Christmas Carol with an impressive Marley's ghost and a live choir. The show goes on the road next month with visits to Huntingfield, Stowmarket, Hoxne, Southwold and Wingfield.
sa 29 Oct 2016	Wednesday in Stowmarket a middle aged man without a beverage was sitting in a fishing chair outside Costa Coffee and getting free wifi, rather reminded us of the coffee shop scene in Ghost World.
mo 10 Oct 2016	Despite hints of rain and a wind that made our camera holding hands a touch painful some 30 at the Bury Saints new player session yesterday in Stowmarket. No contact until January and the players divide themselves in to defence and offence. A second Bury new player session next weekend in the Bury leisure centre (been there for roller derby) and nearer to the ntc homeland Ipswich Cardinals have two newbie sessions next month.
mo 26 Sep 2016 KC McKanzie	We first saw KC McKanzie as a solo at a Maverick concert in the Framlingham Crown, she intrigued and impressed us. She is now one half of Leisure Tank and they are playing the Stowmarket John Peel Centre tonight. ♫
th 21 Jul 2016	Last night's thunderstorm wasn't that much in Stowmarket and hardly hindered the Keeper's Daughter's dress rehearsal of their promenade Romeo and Juliet in and around the John Peel Centre. The show goes on the road tonight starting in Lowestoft and is a very different way of telling a 400+ year old story.
fr 26 Feb 2016 Operation Cannington	The thing about chairman of the parish council James Arnold's highly illegal 460+ firearms stash in Wyverstone (the other side of Stowmarket from near the coast) was the some 200,000 rounds of ammunition and other explosives. Kept in close proximity and a single room if there had been an accident there would have been a fireworks display the village wouldn't forget. Arnold died of pancreatic cancer in July 2014 before he could face charges but last Friday following a related enquiry firearms dealer Anthony Buckland received six years for fraud and selling prohibited weapons.
th 30 Oct 2014	Near Stowmarket Perfect Perennials will close for the winter this weekend ... that's the garden centre as well as the flowers.
sa 6 Sep 2014	♫ Realised at Stradisphere what old rockers we are when from Stowmarket the Regency Gentlemen blew a straight ahead set of Chuck Berry/Rolling Stones/Free giving us a warm glow of pleasure. Despite this like many we were pulled to the James Grigg stage by Born In The USA but we returned to the bar ... more here
su 4 May 2014	Next week the inaugural women's Tour of Britain flirts with near the coast twice. Stage 3 Felixstowe-Clacton on Friday passes just south of Woodbridge and the final and fifth stage on Sunday passes to the west of Stowmarket to finish in Bury St Edmunds.
we 20 Nov 2013	Nice to have some stuff happening mid-week. Tonight Swervy World launch their new album (cd and vinyl) at the John Peel Centre Stowmarket (we've yet to visit) on an admission by donation basis and also tonight a joint Suffolk Constabulary/Suffolk Horsewatch event in Swilland ... tomorrow night Slice of Life present The Fitzrovia Radio Hour in what was the Shalom Centre Framlingham (and again we've yet to visit).
mo 11 Feb 2013	Easton in the 1950s, a bowler hat being worn without irony in Stowmarket, that windmill in Thorpeness and Framlingham's Market Hill when the pharmacy was a chemist and had a flagpole ... clearly Fram's always had a flag fetish.
th 3 May 2012	Police Direct reporting flooded roads around Bredfield, Debenham, Helmingham, Melton, Otley, Stowmarket and Woodbridge ... bad enough that Victoria from the Framlingham Bookshop gave up try to get from Stowupland to Fram this morning.
fr 25 Feb 2011	♫ Walkway are now NOT playing the Framlingham White Horse tonight but they are playing the Stowmarket Pickeral next Friday.
fr 7 May 2010	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Daniel Poulter Con 27,125 Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne Lib-Dem 13,339 Bhavna Joshi Labour 8,636 Roy Philpott UKIP 2,361 Andrew Stringer Green 1,452 Mark Trevitt Ind 389 Richard Vass New Party 118 more pix on Facebook
sa 24 Apr 2010	The local Tory chairman wants you to know Dr Dan Poulter does know what a safer neighbourhood team is and has been out with three snts. We can tell you that that's Dan's fiancé Joanna Newman in the pic, that she grew up around Stowmarket and that Dan's speaking in the Bruisyard village hall tonight.
fr 22 Jan 2010	Framlingham College girl Georgia Rickards won 16 medals in one hit at the Stowmarket Swimming Club Championships.
th 24 Sep 2009	Where that wiggly bit of the A14 with a 50mph limit used to be just west of Stowmarket there's now a brand new unwiggly bit.
tu 7 Jul 2009	There will be just two showings next Monday of The Age of Stupid at Stowmarket Cinema.
mo 4 May 2009	Theatrical Clive Merrison (Sherlock Holmes on the radio and the head teacher in The History Boys They're clever but they're crass) was dining in the Framlingham Station last night; bar manager Vix is leaving to work at the Stowmarket King's Head for the very sensible reason that it's much nearer where she lives.
su 14 Oct 2007	Lovely weather for boulevardiers in Aldeburgh this afternoon. This handsome fellow had clearly been enjoying a swim, a display of Minis, and on the new piste cunningly placed right outside the White Lion petanque was being played. The match was a friendly between the newly formed Aldeburgh Club and the Meadlands club from Stowmarket. The action was certainly attracting interest from passers by and it would seem part of petanque's point is sociability.

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