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Calls for a blanket 20mph speed limit for Suffolk's residential roads have been rejected amid opinions that it could not be enforced.

The Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent group put forward the motion to Suffolk County Council's full council meeting on Thursday afternoon calling for a mandatory 20mph speed limit for the residential streets in the county's town and villages, with 30mph only in exceptional circumstances.

Although positive coronavirus cases continue to rise in Babergh, which includes the Shotley peninsula, the district remains one of the lowest infected areas in the country.

The latest Covid-19 figures released by the Suffolk Resilience Forum, showed 45 positive cases in a week, with nine new cases in the two days between October 18 and 20. This increased Babergh's weekly case rate to 63.02, but left it 280th in the national table of 315 areas.

South Suffolk MP James Cartlidge has voted against extending the school meals voucher scheme, which affects pupils on the Shotley peninsula and beyond.

Mr Cartlidge was one of 300 Conservative MPS that refused to back the Labour motion which called for the scheme to be extended over school holidays until Easter 2021, to help feed more than 1.4 million hungry children in vulnerable families in the UK.

More than 1,200 school pupils and 160 teachers in Suffolk have had to self-isolate because of potential coronavirus risks, new data has revealed.

Suffolk County Council figures showed that of the county's 100,000 pupils in schools, 1,209 pupils had been required to self-isolate as of Wednesday, October 21, including individuals from Holbrook Academy.

UP CLOSE chats with Kirsty Button,chair of Friends of Shotley School that fundraise for everything from IT equipment and swimming trips, to a trim trail and Funky Trunky.

As evidenced by the spectacular spooky path leading up to Shotley Primary School and Kidzone, the mums that make up FOSS are a pretty inventive bunch.

Shotley Peninsula motorists parking in Babergh can now scrap their paper ticket and go digital – to help protect their health and the environment.

Visitors needing to drive into the district to shop local, or visiting beauty spots, instead of walking or cycling, can now choose to go paperless in the councils' ticketed car parks, including Pin Mill, Hadleigh, Sudbury and East Bergholt.

Plucky youngsters in Shotley have been making their way past ghosts, ghouls, skeletons and pumpkin-headed scarecrows to get to class this week.

Parents from the Friends of Shotley School (FOSS) blazed the trail from the main road up to the primary school buildings as a way of making up for the children missing out on their traditional Halloween disco, which usually takes place on the Friday before the Autumn half-term.

Babergh District Council Report: Derek Davis Ganges ward (Shotley & Erwarton)

How wonderful it is too once again be reporting on one of our community leaders being nominated for an award.