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Manager of 107-year-old cinema set to celebrate 30 years in charge

Wayne Burns, manager of Leiston Film Theatre, pictured with assistant manager Becky Nichols

Dominic Bareham

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The story of how a cinema manager took on an historic, but neglected cinema and turned it into one of the country’s most cherished independent venues could make a movie in its own right.
Sizewell B's reactor and two turbines shut down automatically due to an 'instrumentation fault'

Investigation after Sizewell B shuts down automatically after fault

Dominic Bareham

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Leiston Long Shop Museum will be hosting a Steam Up event on Sunday

East Suffolk town ready to spring into action this weekend

Dominic Bareham

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Concerns have been raised local people could be stripped of the ability to oppose the Sizewell C project

Sizewell C

PM wants to increase nuclear output, but campaigners voice alarm

Dominic Bareham

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Toothless in London

Peter Aldous

Dental campaigners 'encouraged' by Westminster visit

Dominic Bareham

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Brer Cornish and Suzanne Jones with their awards after completing their apprenticeships

Sizewell C

Quartet graduate from apprentices to Sizewell B workers

Richard Cornwell

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Leiston town centre and signs

Environment News

Route map planned for Suffolk town to become net carbon zero by 2030

Jason Noble, Local Democracy Reporter

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Jocelyn Bond and T-J Haworth-Culf

East Suffolk Council

Two councillors for Aldeburgh and Leiston resign from East Suffolk Council

Jason Noble, Local Democracy Reporter

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The Normanston Park sign.

East Suffolk Council

Free 'Our Parks' fitness classes to take centre stage in East Suffolk

Mark Boggis

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