Felixstowe news
SIXTEEN thousand voices!
That was how many names were on the Evening Star Save the Blue Cross campaign petition as it was handed over to charity chiefs, who pledged to take into account the views of everyone who signed calling for the animal rescue shelter to be kept open.
HEADLINE acts have been announced for the second year of the Harvest at Jimmy's music and food festival.
The two-day festival, at Jimmy's Farm, at Wherstead, near Ipswich, is taking place over the weekend of September 11-12.
A STAGGERING 13,000-plus people have signed the Evening Star's Save the Blue Cross campaign petition.
Campaigners fighting to save the animal rescue home from closure are absolutely thrilled with the response - and hope it will persuade charity chiefs of the need to keep the centre open.
REASSURANCES have been given that Felixstowe's police station is not going to close.
Fears were raised by Evening Star readers that the station in Glenfield Avenue could shut as part of changes taking place to create new police response hubs to alter the way officers deal with emergencies.
HEALTH bosses have pledged that the future of Felixstowe's vital emergency unit is safe - but admitted doctors will no longer be at the hospital at weekends.
ONE of Felixstowe's oldest residents has died at the age of 103.
Dick Jervis, who spent his last years at Coniston residential home in Garfield Road, was just a month short of his 104th birthday.