Jane Mower, known to radio audiences as “The Sunrise Poet”, is to recite a selection of poems from her book “Baubles Bangles and Poetry” at Ipswich Tourist Information Centre, St Stephen’s Church, this Saturday, 4th September from 2pm.
This is her first book and proceeds from its sale will be helping to raise funds for the East Anglian Children’s Hospice Treehouse appeal.
Jane will also be signing copies of her book, which is on sale at the Tourist Information Centre, priced £10. Further details are available from the centre – telephone 01473 258070, or email tourist@ipswich.gov.uk

Beachwatch 2010

The beach that's been adopted is a 2.5 mile stretch from Fagbury Point, along the Orwell shoreline adjacent to the Suffolk Wildlife Trust Trimley Marsh nature reserve up to Loompit Lake. Parking at Cordys Lane, IP11 0UD. See treasure map for details. A minibus will be available at the car park to take you to the reserve.

Why: Beachwatch is a national campaign run by the Marine Conservation Society. Some of our best-loved marine wildlife is under threat from the waste and litter in our seas. Hundreds of species of marine wildlife accidentally eat or become tangled up in litter. In addition to harming wildlife, litter on our beaches is hazardous to people and costs millions to clear up.

The coast is a major feature for Suffolk, attracting many visitors and locals. It is also very sensitive to climate change, erosion and other environmental factors, especially pollution. Beachwatch 2010 is part of our social responsibility and community engagement programme to raise awareness and take action on local environmental issues.

Further information on the group's WEBSITE»
River Clean-up
The sun shone on the 60 volunteers who turned out to play their part in making Ipswich’s rivers more beautiful on Sunday. The event was organised by CSV and The Greenways Countryside Project as part of the Access to Nature project and, as always, enjoyed massive support from local people.



As in previous years, scuba divers worked hard to pull out years worth of rubbish from the bottom of the River Gipping at Yarmouth Road, including the usual suspects of shopping trolleys, pushbikes, traffic cones, and many more random items including a deck chair, a telephone and a car battery. Trolleywise, as usual, lent a hand and took away the shopping trolleys for free.

James Baker, Project Manager of the Greenways Countryside Project commented “There were lots of new volunteers this year, which is fantastic. It was great to have so many enthusiastic and motivated volunteers and to be able to do some positive conservation work with them as well as the cleaning up of litter. We have seen a definite difference in the litter here from previous years, which is largely due to having had a River Ranger in post since the last Cleanup.”

The work of keeping Ipswich clean goes on, but on Sunday the people of Ipswich all pulled together to take another huge step in the direction of creating a more beautiful town.