Did you know?

On this day in 1944 D-Day took place as the biggest land, air and seaborne invasion the world has ever known was launched. Codenamed Operation Overlord saw 150,000 American, British and Canadian troops sailed to France from England and stormed the beaches of Normandy.

The Shotley peninsula played its part by helping to fool Hitler into thinking the attack would take place in Calais, when fake landing craft, tanks and dummy troops were placed at Woolverstone, with German airplanes photographing them along the Orwell.

See Woolverstone Notes & Queries page on Facebook

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Today's Peninsula sunrise: 04:36

Today's Peninsula sunset: 21:10

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Tide times:

• 00:27 4.11m
• 06:21 0.29m
• 12:55 4.1m
• 6:44 0.37m

Beware - Strand could flood at lunchtime

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Today's weather:

Cloudy, wet and windy start as rain pushes in from the north. By the afternoon this will have cleared, with blustery showers following from the south. Top temperature of 15c dropping down to a low of 4c.

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Orwell Bridge: Open

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Today's Post Office Openings:

Shotley: 09.00 – 13.00

Chelmondiston: 09.00 – 16.00

Holbrook: 09.00 – 17.00

Brantham (village hall): Closed

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Today's food shop openings:

Holbrook Co-op: 07.00 -19.00

Brantham Co-op: 07.00 – 19.00

Premier Stores Shotley: 08:00 - 19:00

Premier Stores Wherstead: 08.00 – 19.00

Hollingsworth's: 09.00 - 17.00

Orwell Stores: 07.30 – 16.00

Suffolk Food Hall: 09.00 – 16.00 Click and collect available

Stutton Community Shop: Order and collect options.

Woody's 09.00-17.30

Please don't stockpile, respect social distancing rules and treat shop staff with respect.

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For food deliveries, or prescription collection please contact your local support schemes:

Brantham Good Neighbours(GNS) 07811 630899 

Chelmondiston GNS 01473 780408

Holbrook Helpers 07999583017

Shotley & Erwarton GNS 07799873381

Stutton Network 01473 327753

Tattingstone 07895052086

Or call Babergh's Home, But Not Alone line 0800 876 6926 and a locality officer will connect you with a volunteer, or just to chat.

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Holbrook and Shotley surgeries and dispensary are closed until Monday. Call 111 for medical help.

Next week:

Holbrook

Phone access only 08:00 – 17:00 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 08:00 – 13:00 Thursday 08:00 – 18:30 Friday for urgent queries

Repeat prescription medication can be collected from 08:00 – 11:00 Monday to Friday and 15:00 – 17:00 on Fridays. Additionally, those over 70 can collect from 14:00 – 15:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

Shotley

Phone access only 08:00 – 18:30 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 – 13:00 Friday for urgent queries

Repeat prescription medication can be collected from 08:00 – 11:00 Monday to Friday and 15:00 – 17:00 on Monday to Thursday. Additionally, those over 70 can collect from 14:00 – 15:00 on Monday to Thursday.

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Live travel updates: Road and rail

Bus services:

Check here for Saturday timetable

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See which businesses are still operating with our Peninsula Business Directory:

Add your business or community group to our Local List

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Quote of the day:

"No thoughts had I of anything,

Or at least that's what I thought;

I even thought I couldn't think,

But now I think I never thought."

Christopher Miller, At This Point in Time

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Riddle of the day:

We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?

Answer will be revealed tomorrow.

Previous Riddle Answer:

I am a shimmering field that reaches far. To the horizon I span beneath the universe's largest star. Yet I have no tracks and I am crossed without paths. What am I?

An Ocean

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