Diss

In 2004, Stradbroke Swim and Fitness Centre earned national recognition when it was declared the UK’s best pool in the annual Marie Curie Swimathon.

Pupils at Diss Church of England Junior School received a maths lesson with a twist when they were given a full day of learning outdoors last month.

Pearces Farm in South Lopham is a superb Grade II-listed detached four-bedroom farm house set in gardens and grounds of nearly five acres with stabling and outbuildings.

The late Mick Logan was always interested in our group and its activities, very supportive, and instigated an affiliation with 1st Dickleburgh Sea Scouts and the Dickleburgh Royal British Legion a few years ago.

An Anglo-Saxon church which has stood in a north Suffolk village for nearly a millennium is set for a new lease of life following the award of a £71,800 grant.

Last week the Diss Express reported how the airmen of the 490th Bombardment Group, who were based at Eye Airfield during the 1940s, were set to be immortalised with a memorial after a successful fundraising effort.

Inspired by the family and friends he has lost to cancer, Keith Yaxley is determined to complete his first ever London Marathon.

St Peter and St Paul’s Church was filled for the funeral service and celebration of the life of John Edward Drummond of Cookley Farm, Eye who died on March 5 in his 90th year.

Gislingham Parish Council has unanimously voted to object to plans for 40 new homes just outside the village’s boundary.

A man who was imprisoned and tortured in an Argentinian jail for three years is set to return to the group that aided his safe release 36 years ago to talk about his ordeal and his work supporting other victims.

A new community public access Defibrillator has been installed at Mendlesham Community Centre, supplied in partnership between Mendlesham Parish Council and the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

There were emotional scenes in the heart of Diss this morning as a team of cyclists completed their journey from Land’s End to raise money for their friend who is recovering from a brain tumour.

A proposed sheltered housing development aimed at retirement age residents of the Diss area has ignited fresh concerns about the rising pressure and lack of progress at the town’s health centre.

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) has issued a call for willing and hard-working volunteers to assist at the charity’s shop in Diss.

Preparations for the fourth annual Waveney Valley Food & Drink Festival are in full swing, as the organisers put out a call for local cuisine connoisseurs to get involved when the event arrives this October.

TODAY: Charlie Calver, 9, of Basham Street, Diss; Morgan Hollingsworth, 9, of Church Road, Earsham.

A north Suffolk brass band is rejoicing after successfully qualifying for the finals of a national music competition.

A community charity has put forward plans to replace a group of buildings on the edge of Gissing with new facilities that would serve the village.

Framlingham College history students gazed into the past last month with a tour of the First World War battlefields at Ypres in Belgium.