David Ruffley

A park and ride scheme for Bury St Edmunds could cost £500,000 a year, according to a report discussed on Friday.

Police chiefs' decision to host a gay pride flag over Suffolk stations has been questioned by MPs.

The rainbow flag- celebrating Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) history month- has been raised over stations in Sudbury and Bury St Edmunds, as well as Suffolk County Council offices, in Ipswich.

But Tim Yeo, MP for South Suffolk, said championing a particular cause was not the role people in Suffolk wanted the police to be doing.

An MP is urging St Edmundsbury Borough Council to launch a park and ride scheme for Bury St Edmunds.

The former chairman of the Conservative Party, once tipped as Margaret Thatcher's successor as Prime Minister, is moving to a picturesque Suffolk market town with his disabled wife.

Residents in the Churchgate area of Bury St Edmunds last night said they were looking forward to having Lord and Lady Tebbit as neighbours after it emerged the couple were looking to move into historic Churchgate House, in Churchgate Street.

Redundancy and divorce- January is proving a busy time for a firm of solicitors which has opened a new branch in Bury St Edmunds.

EXCITEMENT is building on the streets of a Suffolk town for the visit of the Queen to take part in an historic ceremony dating back to the 12th century.

Bury St Edmunds will today come to a standstill as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visit the county for the traditional Maundy Money service.

Thousands of people are expected to descend on the market town while 168 fortunate men and women will actually receive the traditional gift from Her Majesty during a ceremony in St Edmundsbury Cathedral.

Emergency repair work to underpin the A14 at Rougham, which had subsided after a £12 million project to improve the Rookery Crossroads, will start at the end of the month.
After investigations, the Highways Agency found cavities in a drainage crossing trench, 3m below the road, which they intend to fill with grout as a temporary fix while investigations into a permanent solution continue.

Officers hope the grout will stabilise the road, which suffered repeated subsidence after the completion of the Rookery Crossroads scheme in 2006.

A LONG-standing problem on one of Suffolk's busiest carriageways could soon be a thing of the past as traffic chiefs prepare remedial work.

Though admitting the work on the A14 was only a temporary solution, the Highways Agency last night revealed that permanent plans to solve problems with subsidence on the road were taking shape.

Community leaders welcomed the news after eight months of concerns about road safety following the multi-million pound improvements to the former Rookery Crossroads at Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds

Plans to provide a mobile post office in Gislingham will cause 'gross disruption' to residents, an MP has said.

MP David Ruffley has called for a rethink on plans to close the post office at Gislingham. And he has voiced strong opposition in his response to Post Office Ltd to the proposed alternative service that it is looking to provide.

The company is consulting local people on the proposal to park a mobile vehicle in Westview Gardens, Gislingham, for two hours a day from Monday to Friday. This would replace the post office run by Geoff Laurence at the village stores.