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ISSUE 9 - JAN 10
Bid4Bury is a success Businesses in Bury St Edmunds have voted in favour of taking their future into their own hands by setting up a Business Improvement District in the town centre. All businesses with a rateable value of more than ÂŁ10,000 had the opportunity to vote on whether to support Bid4Bury. The postal ballot closed on Monday 30 November and the count was held in the Corn Exchange, Bury. The Bid4Bury campaign saw 59% of those taking part in the ballot voting in favour of setting up the BID. Plans for the BID include better Christmas lights, street rangers and a professional marketing campaign to encourage people to spend their money in Bury St Edmunds.
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Bury Town Centre Manager Steve Peters said: "This is excellent news for everyone who works in or visits the town centre for shopping, leisure or business and I'm thrilled this two year project to bring a BID to the town is now here. This is the start of a new era for the town centre, and has the potential to propel Bury further, as a quality shopping and business destination. It's now up businesses, without any outside interference, to bring the benefits of the BID to their
own trading environment. There are highly successful BIDs throughout the country and every time one comes up for renewal the vote is always in favour, which just goes to show what a huge impact they can have in an area. Town Centre Management would like to thank St Edmundsbury Borough Council and Suffolk County Council for their support for the BID process and we look forward to working closely with them in the future to improve the town centre still further." Cllr John Griffiths, Leader of St Edmundsbury Borough Council, which supported Bid4Bury, added: "I congratulate all those who worked so hard to make Bid4Bury a success and also those who have accepted the challenge of making life better for their own businesses by taking control of their own future." To be successful, more than 50% of those taking part in the ballot had to vote in favour, and the total rateable value of those voting also had to be over 50% (in the Bury ballot it was 67%. The turnout was 32.5%.
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Editor's Note / Local Matters / Contents Wishing you a Happy & Prosperous New Year Garden Services
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I would like to take this opportunity in wishing all of our readers and advertisers a very Happy New Year. Now is the time to begin planning new projects and making our New Year resolutions so please bear our local advertisers in the Flyer magazines in mind in your decision making. For me personally the New Year brings one birthday too many as I will now be able to apply for my Bus Pass. I suppose it also signals a time to for me to begin slowing down a bit.
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I am still actively encouraging more organisations to use the Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury Flyer magazines to raise their profile. If you would like me to include your sports and community news features in the February editions you are most welcome to submit editorials to me before the 8th January please. I can be contacted on 0845 310 2448 (local rates apply) or by email on richard.livall@flyeronline.co.uk.
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Having over the years pioneered the semi-pedestrianisation of many historic town centre streets and re-configuring Angel Hill to include a proper square for people to sit, linger and enjoy the fine delights of our town no-one can surely doubt my commitment to Cllr Mark measures improving life for pedestrians. However, I must confess I Ereira-Guyer am somewhat underwhelmed by St Edmundsbury's proposal to make Risbygate and St Andrews Streets one way, and at a massive cost of ÂŁ400,000. This would pay for about 14 pedestrian crossings across West Suffolk! Amazingly the Council plans to pay for one third of the cost from the Car Park account - charges for which they have just increased ostensibly to manage the car parks more effectively. Although I endorse the clear need to improve the junction with St John's Street for all users I voted against the one way proposal at a recent Committee meeting (and increased Sunday car parking charges!). I did so because the town already experiences real problems with traffic congestion (especially around Parkway), and the proposal to make these two inner Town Centre roads one way will only make matters worse. It could also have a profoundly negative impact on many shops along these streets - making them more difficult for people to access. Moreover, it is a real matter of priorities. And public finance is scarce. It's going to get scarcer. Since being elected in June last year to Suffolk County Council I have been presented with several petitions and community demands for action to improve pedestrian safety outside or near to schools - at Westley Middle and then Tollgate Primary. People have serious problems with speeding traffic in residential streets across the town. Quite rightly I have, with colleagues, prioritized action and pushed for resources to address these pedestrian safety concerns as quickly as possible. A new pedestrian crossing is planned for Westley Road next month, and initial school safety measures have been implemented at Tollgate Lane.
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The Flyer January 2010 Page 1 Main Feature Page 2 WaterWorld Page 3 Editor's Note / Local Matters / Contents Page 4 Local Matters - views from the MP Page 5 Community & Business Page 6 Health Matters Page 7 Wildlife News - Winter Bird Feeding Page 8 Feature - Abbots Bridge Home and Garden Renovation Centre Page 9 Homes4U Suffolk Page 10 Pet Matters - RSPCA West Suffolk Branch Page 11 Local Business Ads Page 12 Leisure & Environment News Page 13 Traders Guide / Business of the Month Page 14 Traders Guide Page 15 Bartles Page 16 BEK Plastics The Bury St Edmunds & District Flyer - Est 2009 The Sudbury & District Flyer - Est 2009 Proprietor & Founder: Richard Livall Well Cottage, The Street, Lawshall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. IP29 4QA
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Local Matters - views from the MP Opposition to housing increases in St Edmundsbury Borough David Ruffley MP While I do not believe our towns and villages should be set in aspic, neither should they be forced to expand too quickly. That is why I have backed St Edmundsbury Borough Council's opposition to more housing being allocated to the Borough and welcomed a proposed strengthening of the policy David Ruffley MP relating to development in Bury St Edmunds.
The Council's Sustainable Development Panel recommended to the Council's Cabinet that the proposed annual rate of growth in the Borough should remain at 540 new homes a year - rather than increase it to accommodate up to another 2,200 over and above this, which is what Government bureaucrats have asked them to consider. I wholeheartedly agree with St Edmundsbury's view that any increase would not be deliverable and, moreover, would have a significant detrimental impact on the environment of our area. The decision was in response to a Government request that the East of England Regional Assembly reviews the East of England Spatial Strategy and provides a framework for growth in the region for the period between 2011 and 2031. I am also pleased to see proposed changes in the Regional Plan that would properly reflect the importance of the unique character of Bury St Edmunds and its historic town centre. In particular, I am certain that the suggestion that any new development should respect and enhance Bury St Edmunds' historic town centre, and that new development should not come forward without the appropriate infrastructure being in place, will be welcomed across the town.
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Risbygate Fish & Chips
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They train their team to provide the best levels of customer The Great Fish Experience service and hygiene helping ensure that every customer served is consistently pleased and satisfied with their visits to The Risbygate Fish & Chips Takeaway was opened last month the Risbygate Fish & Chips Takeaway. by local entrepreneur Abdullah Gokteke. The takeaway is ideally placed in Risbygate Street in Bury St Edmunds Town Centre and is located in close proximity to the St Andrews Street North car park and the arc Bury St Edmunds shopping centre and its car park.
“Enjoy your Fish and Chips today”
The establishment fries traditional fish and chips to take away and also has a range of burgers, pies and drinks, both hot & cold.
Enjoy the delicious range of freshly cooked battered fish and the best possible quality chips. Abdullah and his staff look forward to seeing you.
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The best possible ingredients Their aim is to prepare and serve the best Fish and Chips in the area, using the freshest available fish, the best quality potatoes - all sourced whenever possible from local Suffolksuppliers.
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Leisure News - West Suffolk Angling Club Fishing in West Suffolk
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By Chris Boughton Matching fishing has become increasingly dominated by small angling clubs fishing mostly on commercial fisheries and the Heron Angling Club is one of the longest established locally. It was originally formed as a works angling section by the Chris employees of Vintens in 1963 just after the Boughton engineering company relocated from Cricklewood to Bury as part of the London overspill initiative. Later the angling section became part of Vinten's employee social club, The Heron Club, and when Vintens ceased to be associated with the Heron Club, the angling club continued as Heron AC and is now coming to the end of its 46th year. Two of the founder members of the angling section, Jack Wetherill and Tony Boughton, are still members and there are also other former Vinten employees fishing with the club Derek Curr, Dennis Vaughan, Chris Boughton and Roger Brown. When the angling section started in 1963 Tony approached Vinten's directors for donations of trophies and this resulted in the prestigious and impressive Bill Vinten Challenge Cup which is still fished for every year and has been won in the last two years by Tony's grandson James. The Mike Brown Shield came from the then company chairman and this is presented to the club's champion at the end of each year. There were also donations from other Vinten directors of trophies for various specimen fish and a pairs competition, all still in operation. There have been many entertaining incidents at their outings during the course of over 500 matches fished since 1963, but the one that always comes to mind first is that of the bull and Derek Blackman. It was 1984 at a lake on Woburn estate and upon arrival the anglers were confronted by a very unfriendly looking bull (do any bulls look friendly?) which Derek decided to face up to. Derek was Works Manager at Vintens at the time and was used to being in charge but the bull was unaware of this and immediately snorted, lowered his head and charged. Covering about 100 yards at near world record speed Derek just managed to get behind a tree in time, whilst nearby 15 other anglers all tried to re-enter the mini bus simultaneously. If only mobile phones with video capability were about in 1984! There is more to this story but maybe for another article. Every year the club has held a Christmas dinner and Tony and Jack recalled that the first one in the early sixties was
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Photo shows members of the Vinten Angling section by the River Waveney at Needham in the summer of 1968. L to R - Les Goodfellow, Ricky Lee, Alan Humphries, Tony Boughton, Johnny Bennett, Chris Boughton, Jock Mcneil, Jack Wetherill, Ron Hollingsbee. held after a match on the River Waveney near Needham. It was chicken and chips in a local pub for 3s 6p each, which is about 17p in new money. Tony ran the club during the 60's and 70's, I ran it during the 80's and Jack has run it successfully for most of the last 20 years. Sadly the Vinten company name has gone locally with W Vinten being taken over by Thales, Vinten Broadcast being renamed Camera Dynamics and Vinten Group becoming Vitec Group. But its history is still there on the trophies, cups and shields donated by Vinten directors all those years ago and fished for every year by the still thriving Heron Angling Club.
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Cllr Trevor Beckwith
or some other such title to oversee the defunct council areas.
In a press release, the leaders Cllr Trevor Beckwith of the three borough/district You may have read that the Appeal Court councils say "We are accounthas overturned the High Court ruling that able to our residents and will the views of residents in council areas, continue working to ensure including St Edmundsbury, should be their voices are heard." Well, West Suffolk House from taken into account when deciding how leaders, let me tell you why I Western Way local government should be restructured. think that statement should be If you remember, the county council want taken with a pinch of salt. St Edmundsbury Borough Council just one council for Suffolk while St recently asked what local people thought of their proposals Edmundsbury and a couple of others to over-develop certain areas of the town. Those I represent want 3 councils; Ipswich, East Suffolk and don't think too highly of the proposals and told you so. West Suffolk. Unfortunately you and your advisors chose to ignore us, driven by some illogical quest to muck up as many lives as possible. Like the leaders, I don't particularly want someone from the far flung corners of Suffolk making decisions relating to Bury St Edmunds but given the track record of those closer to home, in reality, it probably won't make much difference. Nobody listens to the community because the elected become institutionalised; displaying unswerving allegiance to their masters whose existence is cosseted from reality. I understand that the three councils are considering appealing to the Supreme Court or to Whitehall. Ho hum, I suppose that's another few thousand quid down the drain.
A huge amount of time and money has been spent on this in-fighting that would have been better spent on improving local services. I speak to many people about local matters and local government reorganisation isn't very high on their list of priorities. Those wanting a bus to get to the doctors or supermarket or want their children educated in their nearest school aren't overly concerned with the ambitions of local politicians. Instead of wasting this time and our money, they should have told the government that we don't want reorganising. Don't misunderstand me; I'm not suggesting that all is fine and rosy because it certainly is not but at least it's paid for. Restructuring will cost millions that will never be recouped and claims that there will be, for example, just one Chief Executive should be treated with scepticism. There may be only one, but I bet there will be 7 regional directors
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Pet Matters - RSPCA West Suffolk Branch Cats and Kittens… New Year's Resolution The RSPCA West Suffolk branch is run entirely by volunteers and rehomes hundreds of different animals every year of which a fair few are unwanted pregnant cats and kittens. As a branch we promote responsible pet ownership and would like to decrease the numbers of unwanted kittens. We need to get the message across and encourage people to get their cats neutered. We can give you advice about caring for your cat or kitten and we offer a voucher scheme to help people on low incomes to neuter their pets. If you have not yet had your cat neutered please make it your New Year's resolution to get this done as soon as possible
inspectors stopped his van in a lay-by and heard some noises coming from a cardboard box. There were 4 kittens inside in a terrible state (one later died). The rest were fortunately nursed back to health and rehomed. This was so unnecessary. If only the mother had been neutered in time, or the owner had phoned us, or taken the kittens to their local vet. If you have an unwanted cat please phone us and we will try and help if we can. Before they are rehomed all of our cats and kittens are health checked, fully vaccinated, neutered and micro chipped. We ask an adoption fee of £40 for adult cats and £50 for a kitten. We take great care in selecting new owners for our cats and kittens. If you are interested in adopting one you will need to have a home check and answer some questions. Please phone our cat rehoming co-ordinators on 08452000287. All cats have different characters and we try and match the prospective new owner to a particular cat. However we usually find that it is the cat that decides who it would like to live with! If you would like some more information and photos please visit our web site:- www.rspcasuffolk.org.uk
People acquire a cute kitten "free to a good home" and do not realise the importance of getting the kitten neutered. When it is about 5 months old a female cat can become pregnant and can produce 2 to 6 kittens up to 4 times a year. Although kittens are adorable they are hard work and need to be kept with their mum for up to 8 weeks before they can be rehomed. Finding a new home is not always easy and that is when the RSPCA can help and take in the kittens and often the mum as well and find suitable homes for them.
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Wildlife News - Winter Bird Feeding Winter bird feeding Feeding the birds in our gardens can help them cope with the food shortages that can occur at any time of year, but it is particularly important during the winter as birds have higher energy requirements in the colder months. Feeding birds also provides us with an opportunity to see them at close range and observe their fascinating behaviour. Food and water should be put out on a regular basis. It is very important to check water every day in cold weather to make sure it is not frozen. In severe weather, feed twice daily if possible, in the morning and in the early afternoon. Birds require high energy (high fat) foods during the cold winter weather as they need to maintain their body re-serves to survive the cold nights. Always remove uneaten food regularly from around the feeders and adjust the amount fed according to demand. And don't forget once you establish a feeding routine, try not to change it. Here are a few ideas on what to feed:
Dried fruits, such as raisins, sultanas and currents are enjoyed by blackbirds, song thrushes and robins. Cut pieces of apples and pears are popular with thrushes, starlings and tits. Potatoes can be added to your bird table - baked or roast potatoes (cold and opened up) are best. Pastry (cooked or uncooked), cooked rice (without added salt), dry porridge oats or coarse oatmeal. Bread is fine in small quantities, as long as it is crumbled and also moistened if very dry. Acknowledgement - St Edmundsbury BC has commissioned Suffolk Wildlife Trust to write wildlife articles and provide photographs each month as part of the St Edmundsbury Rural Action Plan.
January at The Swan Great Beer, Great Food at Great Prices. IPA - £2.45 a pint, Carlsberg - £2.45 a pint (plus lots of other offers) Enjoy local produce, cooked using traditional recipes.*
2 x courses - £15.95 3 x courses - £18.95 The best value and the best food for miles around.
Bird seed mixtures are widely available for wild birds and will attract a range of species.
For Reservations call Sue or Lesley on 01284 827342 (* Bar menu also available)
Black sunflower seeds are excellent year-round food, and are very popular with many species. Niger seeds are small and black with a high oil content. They need a special type of seed feeder, and are particular favourites with goldfinches and siskins. Fat balls and other fat-based food bars are excellent winter food. You should not use salted or dry roasted peanuts and you should always purchase peanuts from a reputable dealer to ensure they are free from aflatoxins, which can kill birds. Cheese is popular with dunnocks, robins, blackbirds, wrens and thrushes. It should be a grated, mild variety.
During the last 12 months we have had several kittens that have cruelly been abandoned. In one case one of our
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Abbots Bridge Home and Garden Renovation Centre
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They offer a wide range of reclaimed building materials for sale. Ideal for a period restoration, including reclaimed soft red bricks and reclaimed Suffolk white bricks and original oak beams. Reclaimed roofing materials include original pantiles, peg tiles and reclaimed slates. Also available are a varied selection of reclaimed flooring including reclaimed timber and floorboards, traditional Suffolk pamments, reclaimed flagstone flooring and salvaged quarry tiles.
Reclamation for Landscaping and Gardens
Abbots Bridge Reclamation was started 10 years ago out of the frustration of not being able to find the right restoration materials. Adrian and Margaret Burrows decided to put their retail experience into reclamation.
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Having a strong retail background has enabled Adrian and Margaret to offer a first class service and to provide a well structured layout which allows customers to browse through the stock at their leisure.
Adrian states that "some reclaimed materials are not at all cheap due to the scarcity of them, but by buying large quantities at good rates we are able to pass on the savings to our customers".
Their extensive range of reclaimed landscaping materials include Indian sandstone paving and circles, salvaged York stone paving, reclaimed railway sleepers, salvaged path bricks and path edgings all of which are complemented by our extensive range of garden features and period style features such as gazebos, patio sets, period style garden benches, original stone troughs, water features, wrought iron and wooden gates, period style birdbaths, sundials, stone urns and other garden statuary.
Salvaged and reproduction Period features Inside their two storey warehouse you will find internal and external reclaimed period doors, salvaged original period door furniture, reclaimed pine and oak floorboards, period Victorian and Edwardian reproduction fireplaces, original period fireplace surrounds, baskets and stoves and other fireplace accessories. Browse further for Belfast sinks, period taps, salvaged cast iron radiators, wall brackets, period style lanterns and door scrapers. Their knowledgeable and friendly staff are always on hand to assist and advise on all aspects of using reclaimed building materials and fitting restored period features. Contact or visit the Centre and make your house a home.
Their philosophy is to offer their customers value for money.
Suffolk Architectural Antiques at Abbots Bridge This premier architectural salvage and reclamation centre in East Anglia, Abbots Bridge Home and Garden Renovation Centre, sits on a one acre site off the A134 just south of the village of Bradfield Combust, a few miles from Bury St Edmunds. Their two storey 9000 sq.ft. warehouse offers affordable architectural salvage, reclaimed building materials and salvaged period features ideal for your property renovation.
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