- Half want vote on EU membership
- Baby joy for Skinner at age 55
- Disabled groups in welfare protest
- Man quizzed over 'road rage' death
- Two arrested over toddler's death
- RBS chairman waives £1.4m bonus
- Prisons nearly full: Government
- Five held in hacking investigation
- Three held after bank occupied
- Security checks at FA Cup showdown
- Big freeze fails to materialise
- Two remanded over decapitated body
- Government record on racism slammed
- Welch claims the Big Brother spoils
- Escaped prisoner back in custody
- NHS faces 'peril' if plans derail
- Cleric warns against gay marriage
- Homeowners 'pay less than tenants'
- Two charged over decapitated body
- Soldier shot dead in Afghanistan
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Oxbridge joy for students
A RECORD number of sixth-formers from a Framlingham school have received offers from two of the best universities in the world.
Uniting as friends
A NEW social group in Harleston, which aims to bring together people who feel isolated or lonely, is planning a walk to banish the winter blues.
Family’s jump raises £8,000 for charities
NINE members of a south Norfolk family have raised more than £8,000 for two causes close to their hearts by skydiving 10,000 feet.
Ancient ritual to wake trees
THE trees in Kenninghall’s Community Orchard were woken from their winter slumbers last Saturday.
Sport
Otters celebrate meet medal haul
THERE were plenty of success stories for Diss Otters to celebrate following the University of East Anglia meet held over the weekend.
Champion Magpies
HARLESTON Magpies under-16s girls side returned to Weybread this week clutching the National Indoor Hockey League Championship.
Norwich City fan Craig Daniels looks forward to the master vs apprentice dugout battle
THE Norwich City clean sheet hoodoo is finally over after an excellent defensive performance in last week’s stalemate with Chelsea.
Taylor handed transfer funds to save Town
DISS Town manager Rob Taylor has revealed he has been given a war chest by the club to keep his side in the Ridgeons League Premier Division.
Lifestyle
Time with Margueritte
MY Afternoons With Margueritte (La Tete En Friche) is being screened in a north Suffolk town next week.
Corn Hall screening
DISS Corn Hall will be screening the Golden Globe winning film, A Separation, on Wednesday.
First 2012 screening
BUNGAY Film Club’s first 2012 screening will be the warm-hearted story of a woman’s rise in a man’s world, Potiche (15).
Bidders bag bygones
BIDDERS braved the rain on Saturday at Gaze’s Diss auction rooms in Roydon Road as a weird and wonderful array of rural and domestic bygones went under the hammer.
Community
In tomorrow’s Diss Express
IN tomorrow’s Diss Express, read about a £1million Heritage Triangle idea which would breathe new life into the under-appreciated north of the town.
Chilly new topic for Botesdale pupils
THE Reception classroom at St Botolph’s Primary School in Botesdale has been a bit chilly for the last few weeks after pupils created an igloo.
PG’s Tips: January column with Diss’ Pete Gillings
NEXT month, February 7 to be precise, will be 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens who must have crossed the local area on more than one occasion as he normally wrote about people or places that he was familiar with.
Council backs bowling alley for Diss but still refuses housing estate
DISS Town Council has given its backing to an application for a bowling alley, cafe and cinema in the town, but still refuses to back a plan for a small housing estate.
Green light for Roydon turbine
AN application to build a small scale wind turbine on farm land at Roydon has been given the green light.
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Weather for Diss
Saturday 28 January 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 1 C to 6 C
Wind Speed: 13 mph
Wind direction: North
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: -0 C to 4 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: East
