Review of the year 2012 – May
‘Trampling over my grief’ is how one man described the actions of St Edmundsbury Council.
Andrew Challis slammed the council for ordering the removal of a memorial bench installed in Haverhill cemetery in accordance with his dying mother’s last wish.
The Conservative Party tightened its grip in South Cambridgeshire, with Roger Hickford ousting John Batchelor from the South Cambridgeshire District Council seat in Linton by just one vote.
Sixteen year old Luke Tabram, from Haverhill, sets up ghost-hunting group Shadow Paranroaml to try and find the ghouls lurking around the town.
A burglar who held at man at knifepoint inside his own home was given a seven-year prison sentence.
Lee Holland, from Wellington Terrace, Haverhill, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary after he broke into the home of 19 year old Thomas Leegood on January 19.
NHS Suffolk announced that it would shut the Crown Health Centre on July 28, instead of October as originally planned, sparkling more uproar over the controversial closure decision.
Then employment minister Chris Grayling left impressed after meeting with businesses during a trip to Haverhill.
Castle Manor becomes an academy along with Place Farm, making the latter one of the first primary schools in the area to achieve the status which gives schools more liberty over how money is spent.
For all the latest news see Thursday’s (January 10) Echo.
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Weather for Haverhill
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Today
Cloudy
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