Bungay Taekwondo, 2008 GTUK British Championships

A New Bronze Age for Bungay Taekwon-do Club

Bungay Taekwon-do Club participated in the 2008 GTUK British Taekwondo Championships at Stratford-upon-Avon

Another successful medal haul was brought back from the 2008 GTUK British Taekwondo Championships at the weekend, although there were more bronze medals than before the fact that students had fought so hard to achieve a medal at all was recognised.

14 competitors from Bungay Taekwondo do club based at Bungay High School travelled the 175 miles to Stratford Upon Avon in order to compete at the largest ever GTUK event and standards and competition were again really high.

Students who won bronze medals for sparring were Rushanth Patirakiri (aged 16) Logan Bedingfield (19) Mark Porter (27) Nicole Sommerville (16) and Club Instructor Clinton Gillett (36) George Crickmore (14) won a Bronze for Patterns, whilst Clinton also achieved a Silver medal in the Senior Black Belt patterns division.

Freya Dodd (16) gained a fantastic silver medal for sparring in her 1st black belt event, only having gained her black belt last weekend.

Fiona Larter (36) once again proved her dominance in the ladies sparring event and achieved a thoroughly deserved gold medal.

All the other competitors only very narrowly missed out on a medal having often got through several rounds before being knocked out. Daniel Ferridge (14) was especially unlucky to come 4th!

Clinton Gillett the club instructor and Director of Design Technology at the High School said “the achievements of those at the championships reflect the diligence, commitment and talent that is apparent in the club, everyone supports everyone else and there is a really friendly atmosphere which is always commented on by other instructors from around Great Britain.”

Now is a great time to get fit for summer so if you would like to see the club train or have a go at this Olympic martial art come along to the high school on Tuesday or Thursday evenings from 7pm or contact Clinton Gillett on 07970 664965 for further details.

Bungay Taekwon-do Club

Location: Bungay High School

Main Instructor: Mr Clinton Gillett (3rd Degree)

Tel: 01986 892140 mob: 07970 664965
clintandmickey@aol.com

Training Times:
Tuesday: 7-8pm
Wednesday: 4-5pm
(school students only)
Thursday: 7-8.30pm

www.gt-uk.net

Crusted Marble Cake - Susie’s Favourite Recipes

Susie’s Favourite Recipes

Crusted Marble Cake

175 g (6 oz) Margarine
175 g (6 oz) Sugar
3 Eggs
125 g (5 oz) Plain Flour
15 ml (3 tps) Baking Powder
2.5 ml (1/2 tsp) Vanilla Essence
25 g (1 oz) Bournville Cocoa
20 ml (1 tbsp) Milk
75 g (3 oz) Plain Chocolate

1 18 cm (7 in) square deep cake tin lightly greased

* Preheat oven to 190 C, 375 F, Gas Mark 5.

* Beat the margarine and sugar.

* Add the eggs one at a time.

* Sieve the flour and baking powder together and fold into the mixture.

* Put half the mixture into another bowl.

* Mix the vanilla essence into one amount.

* Mix the cocoa and milk into the other.

* Place alternative spoonfuls into the prepared cake tin.

* Smooth over the top and hollow out the centre.

* Melt the chocolate in a bowl of hot water.

* Spread the chocolate over the cake mixture in the tin, don't worry if it spreads a little.

* Bake for about 40 minutes.

* Leave the cake in the tin until the chocolate is hardened enough to handle.

* Cool on a wire tray.

* Enjoy!

New Bungay Black Belt - Freya the Fearless!

New Bungay Black Belt - Freya the Fearless!

Freya Dodd aged 16 from Beccles has become the 3rd black belt to graduate from Bungay Taekwondo club after passing her gruelling black belt examination at the weekend.

Freya put in a 120% effort throughout the 8 hour GTUK grading held in Coventry in the Midlands. She has been training at Bungay Taekwondo Club based at Bungay High School for nearly 4 years and started in the free Wednesday class run as part of the schools extra curricular programme for students at the school.

Clinton Gillett the club instructor and head of Design Technology at the school said that “Standards at the grading were very high and Freya shone over the other juniors taking their grading”, this was reinforced when one of the senior grading examiners came up to me at the end and asked if she was one of my students and when I replied positively he said that Freya was the best student he saw grade all day!

If you would like to train with these new black belts or have a go at this Olympic martial art come along to the high school on Tuesday or Thursday evenings from 7pm. The club is actively recruiting at the moment and all new beginners are welcome. Contact Clinton Gillett on 07970 664965 for further details.

Bungay Taekwon-do Club

Location: Bungay High School

Main Instructor: Mr Clinton Gillett (3rd Degree)

Tel: 01986 892140 mob: 07970 664965
clintandmickey@aol.com

Training Times:
Tuesday: 7-8pm
Wednesday: 4-5pm
(school students only)
Thursday: 7-8.30pm

www.gt-uk.net

Robin - Waveney Wildlife

Robin

Characteristics
The robin’s association with Christmas is appropriate, for it is during the winter months that its colours are most marked, with it’s red breast at its reddest and it’s back a rich brown, both contrasting brilliantly with its whitish under parts. Young birds have speckled plumage and look like young nightingales.

Habitat
The Robin is often seen in town and city gardens, and often accompanies gardeners to search for insects and larvae as the ground is dug over. Away from habitation, it is a shy and retiring, inhabiting woodland hedges.

Behaviour
The robin is tame and likes to come close when anyone is digging the soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up; when the gardener stops for a break the robin might use the handle of the spade as a lookout point.

Robins often approach large wild animals, which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface.

Males are aggressive and guard their territory possessively.

The song is a high, pleasant warble and the loud alarm call is a penetrating ‘tic-tic’.
B.A.B.

www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife

We haven't given up on the Norfolk Broads

We haven't given up on the Norfolk Broads

We want these wetlands to be protected and managed for as long as possible, says Brendan Joyce

Hickling Broad is the largest of the Norfolk Broads and is at threat from sea-level rise. Patrick Barkham's statement that "local environmental groups such as the Norfolk Wildlife Trust have spoken hopefully of valuable new salt water habitats if this part of the Broads is submerged" does not represent our view (Waves of destruction, April 17). We own and manage Hickling Broad and are deeply concerned about its future.

Hickling Broad is part of a unique area for wildlife, valued by many people. The article says: "Even if it is protected with new sea walls, saline intrusion from rising sea levels will irrevocably transform the Broads from a freshwater region into a salty one. Some freshwater species will become extinct in Broadland." The Trust wants to see Hickling and the other broads protected and managed for as long as possible. Concern over the long-term future of the Upper Thurne Broads, however, has to be judged against our attempts to protect this valued wetland. Hickling Broad is suffering from a host of threats, including poor water quality caused by saline intrusion. Progress in tackling these threats, however, is slow and woefully underfunded.

There are concerns over the sustainability of the existing sea defences and some form of managed retreat may be inevitable. Barkham reports that "the government still won't contemplate the question of compensating our climate change refugees of the future". As well as the impact on people, their lives and livelihoods, what happens about compensating for the loss of existing freshwater habitat? We would say that habitat has to be recreated, which is not an easy task. One might find that the costs of actually doing all that are not too far away from the cost of defending the existing line for as long as possible.

The article mentions another of our nature reserves, Cley Marshes on the north Norfolk coast, claiming: "A protective shingle bank is being allowed to fall into disrepair." In reality it is being allowed to re-profile itself naturally and will no longer be artificially managed, which had continually weakened its integrity. While the frequency of seawater overtopping the ridge is likely to increase, the lower, wider profile is expected to absorb more wave energy. Coupled with this, improved drainage of the marshes behind the ridge and a new tidal channel have been created, which should provide continued drainage for approximately 200 years.

Whether we believe in climate change or not, the evidence is that a significant impact could potentially occur over a large area of land. We do not currently have the research that will tell us exactly what we can expect or what we can do.

Steve Hayman, the Environment Agency coastal manager for East Anglia, is quoted as saying: "In the longer term there are really difficult questions to answer here and it may not be possible to maintain the coastline as we know it today." In the meantime our trust believes a huge amount of work is required. We face some very serious issues, and decisions will need to be taken soon to avoid catastrophe.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Brendan Joyce is director of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust
info@norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk

also see: www.waveneyvalleyblog.com/2008/04/save-norfolk-broads-broads-society.html

Blood Donor Session, Beccles 20 May 2008

Blood Donor Session taking place in

Beccles

on

Tuesday 20th May

at

Great Yarmouth & Waveney PCT HQ,
Board Room, 1 Common Lane North, Beccles

between 10.30-12.30 & 2.00-4.30

Appointment Advisable

please call 0845 7 711 711

Our next will be Tuesday 29th July.

www.blood.co.uk

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Peregrine Falcons Return to Suffolk

Peregrine Falcons are breeding in Suffolk again - for the first time in a staggering 200 years.

The sensational birds of prey, which can hit 200mph in a dive, last thrived in the East Anglian county when King George III was on the throne and Napoleon was rampaging across Europe.

Now a peregrine is sitting on four precious eggs under the Orwell Bridge - just feet away from an endless stream of lorries and cars thundering along the A14.

The fastest living creature on earth last bred in Suffolk in the steeple of the parish church at Corton, near Lowestoft, in the early 1800s as Beethoven finished his first symphony.

Steve Piotrowski, (CRRCT), president of Suffolk Ornithologists Group and ornithological adviser to the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, said he was delighted the supreme predators had finally returned.

He said: "Peregrines normally nest on sheer rock faces in mountainous areas. But in recent years, with better protection and conservation measures in place, they have been increasingly venturing into towns and cities to nest on high-rise buildings, power stations, electricity pylons and the like.

It is perhaps not surprising they have chosen to nest on Suffolk's highest structure - the Orwell Bridge. A pair began to spend the winter on the bridge in 1991 and there have been peregrines in the area ever since."

He added: "The view from the bridge gives the falcons a distinct advantage and they are able to swoop down on unsuspecting pigeons and wading birds that feed on the mudflats below. Their prolonged stay raised speculation among local ornithologists that breeding would soon take place.

The birds' presence caused great excitement locally and their spectacular displays became a feature of a day's birdwatching on the Orwell estuary. The Suffolk Ornithologists Group campaigned tirelessly to have a nest box erected in the hope that breeding would take place and one was put up on the bridge in the early 1990s. The group's success was largely down to one of our members, Gary Lowe, and we and the birds are now indebted to him."

Gary, of Boyton, near Woodbridge, worked for Ipswich Borough Council's estates department at the time but was also a council park ranger.

He negotiated with the Department of Transport over the provision of the box as a compensatory measure for a compound placed on the council's Pipers Vale public open space related to works on the bridge.

A peregrine is sitting on four precious eggs under the Orwell BridgeThe nest box the peregrines are using is the original one, paid for by the department.

Mr Lowe, who now works for NPS property consultants, said: "The news that the peregrines are breeding in the box is fantastic. It has been a long wait but it's worth it, especially if the peregrines manage to raise some young to the fledging stage. I hope it's the start of a more widespread recolonisation in Suffolk as peregrines are such magnificent birds and they have had some lean times in the past."

The birds have been studied closely by bird-of-prey enthusiast Rod Plowman, of nearby Chelmondiston. Rod said: "It is really exciting to think that peregrines are breeding with us again after such a long absence. They are spectacular birds and seem to be feeding mainly on the feral pigeons around the Ipswich docks area and the numerous wading birds that use the Orwell estuary."

The peregrine chicks are due to hatch any day and conservationists expect many members of the public will want to see the adults hunting to feed them.

Mick Wright, Suffolk Wildlife Trust's officer for the Orwell estuary, said the best vantage point would be the nearby Piper's Vale country park on the north bank of the river.

He said: "There is plenty of car parking space there and the park offers good views of the bridge and the estuary. It would be wonderful if this pair of peregrines help to show people how important the Orwell estuary is for wildlife and encourages them to show respect for the area while enjoying its natural spectacle."

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

MAGPIES U18 GIRLS and U18 BOYS in NATIONAL FINALS

HARLESTON MAGPIES U18 GIRLS and U18 BOYS in NATIONAL FINALS

Harleston Magpies Under 18 Girls and Under 18 Boys teams have both reached the National Finals taking place at Canterbury this weekend in a tremendous double achievement for the Club.

The U18 Boys have reached the Finals with some fairly comfortable results whilst the U18 Girls have had some very tight games. The U18 Boys are making their first appearance in the outdoor National Finals but also reached the Indoor National Finals this season, which is a great achievement for Coach Leigh Sitch and his squad. The U18 Girls are making their second successive appearance in the National Finals having finished third at Birmingham last season.

SATURDAY 10th MAY
11.30 U18 BOYS v BOWDON
14.15 U18 GIRLS v CHELMSFORD
16.30 U18 BOYS v BEESTON

SUNDAY 11th MAY
10.15 U18 GIRLS v BELPER
13.00 U18 BOYS v READING
14.00 U18 GIRLS v LEICESTER

The U18 Girls reached the Finals with the following results:
Round 1 - Bye
Round 2 - Ipswich Drew 2-2 won on pen strokes
Round 3 - Saffron Walden Won 4-0
Round 4 - Dereham Won 2-1
Semi Final - Exe Won 4-3

U18 Girls Squad for the weekend
Jess Hull (Capt), Becky Marshall, Calianne Clark, Cherry Seaborn, Bryony Lund, Artemis Clark, Lauren Barber, Jade Daly, Amy Tuffs, Lizzie Clymer, Jessie Withers, Katrina Warnes, Helen Brook, Josie Molloy, Siobhan Wooltorton, Amelia Thomson

Manager: Nigel Wooltorton
Coach: Nick McAllen


U18 Boys reached the Finals with the following results:
Round 1 - Bye
Round 2 - Cambridge Nomads Won 4-0
Round 3 - City of Peterborough Won 3-1
Round 4 - Chelmsford Won 4-1
Semi Final - Richmond (Yorks) Won 7-1

U18 Boys Squad for the weekend
Richard Larkin (capt), Charlie Garrard, Harry Blandy, Will Harrison, Will Johnson, Dan Legg, Carl Sitch, Ben Gowing, Fred Merrett, Chris Barber, Craig Snelling, Louis Steven, Jamie Legg, Toby Hughes, George Moore

Manager: Bertie Steggles
Coach: Leigh Sitch

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Wings and Wheels, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, May 11th

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Comes to Wings and Wheels
Sunday May 11th at Henham Park

Halesworth Lions are delighted to announce that this year’s Wings and Wheels at Henham Park will include The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. This is an absolutely marvellous sight and one not to be missed.

This is the 5th year Halesworth Lions have held this event, the fourth time running at the magnificent Henham Park and every year gets bigger and better. Along with the memorial flight we have the return of Team Guinot Wing Walkers.

Not only can you watch their acrobatic display, but you can get up close and personal and talk to the wing walkers and pilots. For the first time there will be main ring entertainment with the Stannage Motorcycle Stunt Team and Razz the Clown performing throughout the day.

There are already over fifty light aircraft booked to fly in and land, with the runway turned 90 degrees more planes can land and it also means we have even more room for the vast number of vintage and veteran vehicles.

Plus a huge array of trade stands, demonstrations, games and rides including hovercraft rides to join the train rides and model boat displays.

Not forgetting your chance to win a car courtesy of M.R.Kings and Son.

All this is happening on Sunday May 11th at Henham Park, nr Southwold just off the A12, from 10am entry costs only £5 for adults and £2.50 for under 14’s.

Come along for a great family day out, for more information and to book trade stands or enter your cherished vehicle visit www.wingsandwheels-online.co.uk

Halesworth Lions is a small local Lions Club and all monies raised from this event goes to charity, and as you can image an event of this size takes a lot of financial outlay so if your company would be interesting in being part of this ever growing event and becoming a sponsor please contact Lion Paul Martin on 01986 872710 or via the web site.

Beccles Battle of The Bands, 10 May 2008

www.BecclesCarnival.co.uk

Beccles Battle of The Bands
10th May 2008

This Saturday sees the annual Beccles Battle of the Bands Competition.

Beccles battle of the Bands competition is now in it's 4th Year. Moore Music Roadshow has again agreed to Sponsor the increasingly popular music event. This year the competition is being held at Beccles Middle School with a licensed bar and hot food on this Saturday the 10th May 2008.

Radio Broadland will be the compares for the evening.

Not only does the competition enable bands to showcase their talent it, offers great publicity to the winning Bands, with past winners earning some fantastic gig bookings.

Event organiser Annette Tackley says ‘this year we are lucky to have some fantastic prizes for the winning bands so come along and support your favourites.

Prizes on offer are one days recording at Purple Studios worth over £200,Cash prizes and a chance to play an open-air gig to thousands during Beccles Carnival weekend’.

Last years runner-up One Member Short will be opening the event with a fantastic set.

Tickets are available on the door £3.00 per person.

So come along for a fantastic evening of music of various types and help your favourite band to win as one of the judges categories is crowd appeal other categories of judging criteria are Musical ability, General appearance, Vocal ability, Presentation, Overall performance, Lyrics and Sound

We have eight live bands performing for the title this year!

Further details from www.BecclesCarnival.co.uk

Beccles Carnival Tickets go on sale this Saturday

www.BecclesCarnival.co.uk

Beccles Carnival Tickets go on sale this
Saturday May 10th 2008

Summer blues will be headlined by the Blues Brothers and the Bluesettes with a full 6 piece live band including Brass Section, over the last six years the boys have taken the music and moves of the Blues Brothers to fans all over Europe and the UK.

The list is too long to include all, but here’s some of the venues they’ve taken apart:

The London Palladium, The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Her Majesty’s Theatre, military bases in Germany. Pontins, Haven, and the east coasts premier privately owned holiday centre, Vauxhall. Countless outdoor festivals, private and corporate functions.

Tickets for Summer Blues Saturday 19th July, will be available and on sale for the first time At Beccles Battle of the Bands being held at Beccles Middle School on Saturday 10th May.

It is advisable to get your tickets for these events early, as there is limited availability and are at the discounted price of £7.50. Will be £10.00 on night if not sold out!

Also tickets for Summer Ska two with Headline Act Neville Staples Formally of the Specials for Friday 18th July will be on sale.

For full details of Carnival weekend please visit the carnivals website www.BecclesCarnival.co.uk

Tickets may also be purchased from East Coast services in Beccles from Monday 12th May 2008 with more ticket outlets to be announced soon.

So near, yet so …, Magpies Hockey

Chairman's Chat

So near, yet so ….

So near, yet so far away! The draw against Fareham came back to haunt the Men’s 1sts in the EHL play-offs at Cannock last weekend when after an uncharacteristically bad game against the University of Durham and excellent wins over Harborne and Cardiff the team missed out on promotion to the national league on goal difference from Durham and Cardiff. Our cause was not helped by the disappointing performance of Kingston upon Hull who lost all their three games by wide margins thereby distorting the goal difference factor.

In the last three seasons the Men’s 1sts have twice finished in second spot in the East League and when we eventually win the title there are play-offs for this season only to accommodate the quite unnecessary changes in next season’s national league structure. I could say more but I won’t!

Despite the below par performance against Durham the team did the Club proud at Cannock with their subsequent wins over two other divisional champions. I take this opportunity to congratulate the squad under manager Robert Stimpson, coach Les Howlett, captain Leigh Sitch and vice-captain Richard Gill for their play and sporting demeanour over the weekend and throughout the season and I also pay tribute to the 50 or so supporters who came to cheer the team on over the three days.

Before I leave the subject of the Men’s 1sts it is worth pointing out the team played 27 league and play-off matches over the season losing just twice and failing to score just once. Quite a record and I’m pleased to show below the results and goal scorers – the latter led by Andy Hipwell with his astonishing record of 45 goals from the 26 games he played.

MEN’S 1st XI

Sep 29 Wapping A 1 – 5
A Hipwell (3), J Wheeler, R Ling

Oct 6 Broxbourne H 3 – 2
A Hipwell (2), N Toulson

Oct 13 Blueharts A 2 – 6
C Sitch (2), A Hipwell, N Toulson, C Barber, R Gill

Oct 20 Bishops Stortford H 5 – 2
A Hipwell (4), J Wheeler

Oct 27 Bedford Town A 2 – 4
A Hipwell (3), C Barber

Nov 3 Ipswich 2 H 4 – 1
R Ling, A Hipwell (2), R Gill

Nov 10 St Albans A 1 – 2
A Hipwell (2)

Nov 17 Havering H 3 – 0
R Gill (2), A Hipwell

Nov 24 Harpenden A 0 – 3
J Fanger, R Gill (2)

Dec 1 Dereham H 7 – 0
T Baynes (2), A Hipwell (3), N Toulson, J Wheeler

Dec 8 Cambridge City A 2 – 1
A Hipwell

Jan 19 Wapping H 4 – 2
J Fanger, A Hipwell, R Ling, T Baynes

Jan 26 Broxbourne A 2 – 7
R Ling, A Hipwell (2), J Fanger (2), R Gill, N Toulson

Feb 2 Blueharts H 5 – 3
R Ling, A Hipwell (3), J Wheeler

Feb 9 Bishops Stortford A 0 – 6
C Sitch (2), J Wheeler (2), T Baynes, A Hipwell

Feb 16 Bedford Town H 2 – 1
A Hipwell, J Wheeler

Feb 23 Ipswich 2 A 1 – 3
A Hipwell (2), R Gill

Mar 1 St Albans H 2 – 1
A Hipwell, J Wheeler

Mar 8 Havering A 0 – 3
A Hipwell (2), T Sumner

Mar 15 Harpenden H 7 – 0
J Fanger, A Hipwell (2), J Wheeler (2), R Gill (2)

Mar 29 Dereham A 1 – 4
T Baynes, C Barber, D Stasin, A Hipwell

Apr 5 Cambridge City H 1 – 0
T Baynes

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Apr 20 Fareham H 2 – 2
A Hipwell, C Sitch

Apr 27 Kingston upon Hull A 2 – 6
A Hipwell (3), N Toulson, C Barber (2)

May 3 Univ of Durham A 3 – 0

May 4 Harborne A 0 – 3
A Hipwell (3)

May 5 Cardiff & UWIC A 1 – 3
T Baynes (2), C Sitch

Good luck to our U18 Girls’ and Boys’ teams in the national finals this weekend at Canterbury HC. To have both teams in the finals is a remarkable record for the club and bodes well for the future. Good luck also to the Mixed team when they entertain Eastcote on Sunday (1.00pm) in the quarter-finals of the national trophy.

I hope as many members as possible will be able to attend the End of Season Bash at the club on Saturday 17 May (7.30pm). The event is open to all ages and entry is by ticket only - £10 (U13s £5) including food - obtainable from Mary Wright 0774 779 5481, Jose Tibbenham 07881 811259 or Mike Denham 01603 506925. Dancing will be to ginger tom & the GO cats.

My thanks go to James Smith, Kirstin Cumming, Daphne Beckett, Nick McAllen, David and Philip Cobbald and all other members involved with the preparation and running of last weekend’s very successful Magpies’ Tournament.

The Summer Mixed Hockey will once again be played on Monday nights (7.30pm) commencing on 12 May and continuing on 2 & 16 & 30 June and concluding on 14 July. Please bring a white and coloured shirt and £3 match fee!

Other dates for your diary please!

Sunday 22 June
Strawberry Luncheon
Shotford Hall, Harleston
(by kind permission of Jill and Roy Whipps)
Tickets (including a drink) are £10 (adults), £5 (children 7 to 12) with children under 7 free
are obtainable from Daphne Beckett (Tel: 07850 709297) or David Alexander (Tel: 01508 530237)

Sunday 13 July
In The Mood
(a trip down Memory Lane)
bring your picnic and relax
to the live music of TIMESCAPE
Bone Hill, Rouse’s Lane off Low Road, Starston
Gates open 3.30pm Music starts 4.30pm
Tickets £10 Adults, £5 U16s, U5s Free –
obtainable from Mike Denham 01603 506925
(event organised jointly by Harleston Lions, Scouts and Magpies HC)

With kind regards and best wishes to all members, supporters and friends of the Club.

Mike Denham (Chairman)
Tel: 01603 506925
E-mail: MDenham975@aol.com
7/5/08

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Dots - games

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MUSIC ARENA ADDITIONS for Latitude, July 17th-20th 2008

17th - 20th July 2008

Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk
www.latitudefestival.co.uk

MUSIC ARENA ADDITIONS

UNCUT ARENA
*MARTHA WAINWRIGHT* *JULIAN COPE* *HOWLING BELLS* *SAM ISAAC*

OBELISK ARENA
*WHITE LIES* *FIELDS*

SUNRISE ARENA
*NIC DAWSON KELLY* *TALLULAH RENDALL*

MUSIC & FILM ARENA
*MICHAEL NYMAN*
*JONNY TRUNK presents VISION ON*
*THE LAST TUESDAY SOCIETY*
*DARRYL’S HARD LIQUOR & PORN FILM FESTIVAL*

ON THE LAKE
*RAFAEL AMARGO*
*RICCARDO MENEGHINI* *HELIX DANCE*

LITERARY ARENA
*PAUL TORDAY*
*PETE ATKIN* *MARK BORKOWSKI*

CABARET ARENA
*LENNY BEIGE*

COMEDY ARENA
*PHIL KAY*
*MICHAEL FABBRI*
MUSIC & FILM ARENA

As the first signs of summer begin to shine through, the line-up for this year’s Latitude Festival is starting to fill up. The very best actors, writers, directors, dancers, musicians and performers are flocking to the sunrise coast to be a part of this festival of inspiration and enchantment . With so much more to be announced across all of the arenas, this is really shaping up to be the arts and music event of the year!

The ground breaking Latitude Festival returns to the sunrise coast in Suffolk for its incredible third year. Nestled in the historic and beautiful surroundings of Henham Park Estate, Southwold, and taking place on 17th - 20th July, organisers Festival Republic are promising another truly spectacular event.

>> Click here for full line up on the Waveney Valley Blog <<

TICKET INFORMATION
Weekend tickets £130 plus booking fees.
Day tickets Fri, Sat, Sun £55 plus booking fee.
Weekend tickets prices include car parking and camping.
Days include car parking only.
C/Card line 0870 060 3775

Or online at www.festivalrepublic.com, www.seetickets.com,
For a full list of National and Regional outlets please visit www.latitudefestival.co.uk

120th Anniversary Concert, 17 May, Bungay Choral Society

BUNGAY CHORAL SOCIETY

120th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
St Mary’s Church, Bungay. Saturday, May 17th, 7.30pm

When the Rev. R Sneyd called a meeting about forming ‘a society for the cultivation of vocal and instrumental music in Bungay’ in October, 1888, the small talk would almost certainly have been about death. Jack the Ripper had just committed his 4th murder, while Edward Lear; the poet Matthew Arnold, and Louisa May Alcott, the famous author of ‘Little Women’ had recently died.

1888 seems to have been remarkable year altogether. Not only did Jack the Ripper commit his murders, and Van Gogh cut off his own ear, but Maurice Chevalier; Groucho Marx; Irving Berlin, TS Eliot, Raymond Chandler; Will Hay and Lawrence of Arabia - and The Bungay Choral Society- were all born in 1888. The Bungay Choral Society has outlived them all.

Little could Rev Sneyd have dreamed that 120 years later his ‘ambition’ would be regularly presenting at least three concerts a year, crowned by a magnificent performance on May 17th, 2008 in St Mary’s Church, Bungay, to celebrate its anniversary. Or that it would be performing Fauré’s ‘Requiem’ which, coincidentally, was being composed at exactly the time that the Bungay Choral Society was founded.

The anniversary concert will also feature John Rutter’s exuberant, flamboyant, and strongly contrasting, ‘Gloria’. There will also be shorter works by the two composers, and César Franck. As usual, the performance will be both videoed and recorded, with CDs and DVDs available after the concert.

Soloists will be Lucy Harvey (soprano), and Frazer Scott (baritone), both making a welcome return. It will be a very special night for Lucy Harvey as she comes from Bungay

The singers will be accompanied by a full orchestral ensemble; the well loved Tim Patient, who is the chairman of the Norfolk Society of Organists, and frequently plays with the Society, and the choir of Bungay Primary School.

Lucy Harvey has a choral scholarship with St. Chad’s Cathedral in Birmingham; and currently is working in association with the Birmingham-based choir Ex Cathedra and the Birmingham Conservatoire Choir. Her operatic roles include Barbarina and the Countess in Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ and Cis in Britten’s ‘Albert Herring’.

Frazer Scott has performed in many prestigious concert halls, such as the Adrian Boult Hall and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He currently sings with the Birmingham Conservatoire, and has recently completed a highly successful tour of the Czech Republic

Harvey Rathbone, Honorary Conductor, has worked with many leading British choral groups such as the BBC Singers, The London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Voices, St. Paul's Cathedral Choir and Westminster Abbey Choir. He has an active involvement in The British & International Federation of Festivals for Music Dance & Speech, which he combines with teaching in East Anglia; adjudicating; giving workshops and master classes at festivals around the British Isles.

The Bungay Choral Society which at one time, even had its own orchestra, has, apart from the war years, performed continuously since its inception. Whilst performances have been both varied and spectacular, summed up by the title of one concert - ‘From Baroque to the Beatles,’ the Society specialises in magnificent religious works, with recent performances including Stainer’s ‘Crucifixion’; Beethoven’s ‘Mass in C ; John Rutters ’Requiem’ and Haydn’s ‘Creation’.

On October 11th 2008, the Society will be presenting Rossini’s ‘La Petite Messe Solennelle’ followed by Vaughan William’s “Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ on December 6th at Holy Trinity Church

The Rev’d Sneyd would have been proud!!

VENUE
St Mary’s Church, Bungay

DATE
Saturday, May 17th, 7.30pm

TICKETS
Adults £7.00, accompanied school children free

ON SALE
from Wightmans of Bungay or TEL: 01986 894132
or, if unsold, AT THE DOOR from 6.45pm

East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival attracts record entry! 11 May 2008

East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival
11 May 2008
at Oulton Broad

Over 600 people will take to the water on Sunday 11th May when the third East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival in aid of EACH returns to Oulton Broad at Nicholas Everitt Park in Lowestoft. Crews will race the thirty foot brightly painted Chinese dragon boats four at a time over a 200m course alongside Nicholas Everitt Park, watched by several thousand spectators.

The event has achieved a record entry this year with a sell-out 52 crews (18 more than last year) representing businesses and organisations from all over East Anglia. The Festival’s nominated charity, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices will be benefiting from sponsorship raised by the crews.

Trophies will be presented by East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices to the winning crew, the second, third and fourth placed crews, the team that raises the most money for EACH, the top mixed crew and the ‘best dressed’ crew. The Malaysian Delights buffet restaurant is providing an added incentive for crews to raise as much money as possible for EACH as they have donated a special banquet for the crew that raises the most.

Credit - AK Event Photography

Simon Hempsall, Marketing Manager for EACH, comments: “The majority of EACH’s costs are not for specialist equipment but for delivering the specialist one-to-one nursing care and support so vital to local children and their families. Relying as much as we do on voluntary public support, we are delighted to be the official charity for the Dragon Boat Festival once again and hope to surpass the fantastic total of £16,000 raised in 2007”.

Carol Lester, Director of Festival organisers, Gable Events added “We are absolutely thrilled with the response to the Dragon Boat Festival this year. It is fantastic that so many people will be travelling from throughout East Anglia to take part in this unique event. We hope to raise even more money for EACH through the Festival this year and have received great support from the The Lowestoft Journal, Radio Broadland, Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport and Waveney District Council. We are sure that teams and Festival visitors alike will enjoy a superb day out on 11th May”.

Credit - AK Event Photography

As well as races every 10 minutes throughout the day between 9.30am and 5.30pm, there will be plenty of family entertainment on the bank including a climbing wall, rodeo bull, bungee run, human demolition and fun fair rides. In keeping with the Chinese history of dragon boat racing, the Wing Chun Kung Fu group will be performing a colourful lion dance at 12 noon and 2pm. Street entertainers, The Grand Theatre of Lemmings will be performing two shows during the day at 11am and 3pm with a walkabout session at 1pm.

You can also find out more about the work of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and visit the roadshow and units of Radio Broadland, the Lowestoft Journal and Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport. The Everitt Park café will be serving a wide range of food and refreshments plus there will be a beer tent and on-site caterers bringing a hog roast, crepes, coffee, smoothies, wraps and toasted sandwiches and AK Event Photography will be capturing all the memorable moments on the day.

Entrance to the Festival is free to spectators and there is plenty of on-site ‘Pay and display’ parking at Nicholas Everitt Park.

WHAT'S ON (pdf)
VENUE MAP (pdf)
ENTRANTS (pdf)

For more information on the Dragon Boat Festival contact Gable Events on
01780 470718 or visit the Festival website at

www.dragonboatfestivals.co.uk/eastanglia

www.each.org.uk