The current review of local government arrangements in Suffolk and Norfolk is a flawed process and an unnecessary diversion of time, money and effort at a time that councils should be concentrating on providing better services and help to those exposed by the current economic uncertainty.  read more »

Inspector Tim Powell should be congratulated, on his retirement, for the work that he has done in leading the Beccles Area Police Team over the past 5 years.  read more »

The average waiting time for orthodontic appointments in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust is now three and a half years thanks to the failure of Labour's new contract for dentists introduced in 2006.  read more »

The Boundary Committee's proposals for unitary local government in Suffolk provide Waveney with a double-whammy.  read more »

Figures recently published by the Office of National Statistics make alarming reading for Waveney.  read more »

Gordon Brown's last budget was a tax con, not a tax cut, with the 2p cut in income tax funded by the abolition of the 10p rate.  read more »

The Transport Minister has "laid down the law" according to Bob Blizzard, to the Highways Agency on the completion of the repairs to the bascule bridge - yet more empty rhetoric from New Labour.  read more »

The lowest paid in Waveney face a double whammy of more tax and higher food prices.  read more »

Over 10,000 households in Waveney, representing almost 25% of the total have a "sub prime loan exposure" and may be now struggling with debt, according to research based on information provided by the credit rating agency, Experian.  read more »

Last week the Government narrowly avoided the embarrassment of losing a vote to suspend its planned closure of 2,500 sub-post offices and saw its majority reduced to just 20.  read more »