News in Shotley Peninsula

Thursday's trivia

How many of Snow White's seven dwarfs have names ending in the letter Y?

Wednesday's wonderful fact

The longest English word is 189,819 letters long. We won't spell it out here, but the full name for the protein nicknamed titin would take three and a half hours to say out loud.

A £50 million bid to transform bus services in Suffolk, including those serving the Shotley peninsula, has been backed by county councillors.

Wider coverage, cheaper fares, improved ticketing, and better evening and weekend services are among proposals under the Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) approved by Suffolk County Council's Cabinet today and which will now be submitted to the Government by the end of the month.

A youth football chairman and coach has spoken of his frustration at feeling fobbed off by Suffolk FA after he raised concerns over financial safeguarding at grassroots level.

Lee Partridge, chairman at East Bergholt youth football club, and Ollie Langham, a coach with Ipswich Exiles, met with a couple of Suffolk FA officials in July to outline a number of proposals brought about after finding issues at a former club he coached, and other problems aired by fellow grassroots clubs' officials.

Tuesday's on this day

October 12 1999 was declared "The Day of Six Billion" as the six billionth living human in the world was born. The current world population, as of writing, is 7.9 billion.

Police have today confirmed that the body of a man in his 40s has been recovered from the River Orwell, near the Strand.

Holbrook Coastguard, police, fire and ambulances, were called to the B1456 early on Sunday afternoon after traffic on the A14 was halted on the Orwell Bridge.

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Monday's morning quiz

What fruit takes the scientific name Mangifera indica?

Holbrook Coastguard were in attendance to an incident on the river Orwell this afternoon.

Emergency services were called just after 1pm this afternoon after concerns were raised about a person on the bridge.

Sunday's thought

Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one. - Eckhart Tolle