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Here is a great example of how working together we can achieve a lot, what I like to call the 'Hive Mind'. I spotted an FB post about a 'lost street' called Prairie asking for any information. I went to https://ourfallen.lowestoftoldandnow.org/search and got 7 hits, ELSIE PETHERICK, FREDERICK HAVERS, LESLIE REEVE, GEORGE SHIPLEE, GORDON SHIPLEE, FREDERICK BARNES and ALBERT FISHER which I passed on.

Once you have your materials and tools, clear and level an area 4m sq with the front positioned for the view and optimising the sun.

At the back right corner mark (yellow line marker spray) an X on the ground (this is the position of the main vertical post). From this point mark two lines at right angles, length 332cm long. Then using string and marker draw a quarter circle on the ground from the X to join these two lines. (See image A)

At Budget 2018, government announced that from April 2022 it wouldintroduce a world-leading new tax on the production and import of plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content, subject to consultation. Plastic packaging accounts for 44% of plastic used in the UK , but 67% of plastic waste, and over 2 million tonnes of plastic packaging is used each year.     https://www.gov.uk. 

Proposals to reform the packaging producer responsibility system. These regulations set waste recycling targets for businesses responsible for producing packaging (like food containers). In particular, we’re seeking views on: changing how costs are managed to be consistent with “polluter pays” principles how we can use incentives to encourage the use of recyclable packaging making recycling labels mandatory on packaging setting new packaging waste recycling targets for 2025 and 2030 improving monitoring and enforcement of the regulations

Excellent Blog by Tamara Green

It may sound obvious but recycling is something that we can and should all do. Here's a list of what can be put in your BLUE BIN. Do this and everyone benefits. But also think what could be re-used, re-paired, and re-purposed  Recycling in Suffolk » East Suffolk Council

At the Suffolk-Norfolk border, Lowestoft is a seaside resort and port town with an interesting story to tell. In the 20th century the port was one of the pillars of the UK’s fishing industry, while the town developed with the expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling in the North Sea in the 1970s.

Fake Broadband scams Phonecalls about your internet are pretty common scams. I had one yesterday, purporting to be from a Broadband provider (which as it happened, was the one I used, but they just cycle through the main companies, knowing the probability of getting it right is quite high), saying they were 'Shutting down my internet connection because of suspicious activity on my IP Address'. Added: 23 September, 2023

Wait to be contacted The NHS will let you know when it's your turn to have the vaccine. It's important not to contact the NHS for a vaccination before then. It will just clog the system.   East Suffolk infection rate rockets. Analysts and transmission specialists point to the new variant being the driving force of this escalation, though data is incomplete, not least because of problems with the testing programme. Whatever the cause, hospitals and other health agencies report massive problems. “One NHS worker said: "It's just horrendous, it's like a war zone. Added: 23 September, 2023

This graph shows why we in East Suffolk need to go into full lockdown, and should perhaps have done so earlier. September, local cases were pretty low. Encouraging, even. Then they started to go up, mirroring but still lower than the national climb. By October it was a strong upward trend. Eventually, the government put us into the second national Lockdown-With-Many-Exceptions. From the graph, it certainly seems that this had some effect, and by December the figures were around where we had started the lockdown. Added: 23 September, 2023