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Reporter Sam Harrison takes a look at SuffolkNews top stories this week.

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00:00 Hello, I'm Sam Harrison, here are your Suffolk News headlines.

00:03 A husband and wife couple have swapped Suffolk for Norfolk to breathe new life into a Rowden

00:09 restaurant which has been closed for 18 months on the site of an award-winning distillery.

00:15 Grant and Lucy Newland picked up the keys for the Green Kitchen at the English distillery

00:20 on Monday after leaving the King's Arms pub in Hawley after seven years.

00:26 After a soft launch tonight and its first full weekend, the restaurant will be open

00:30 Monday to Saturday and for Sunday lunch, where the team will be doing breakfast, brunch,

00:35 lunch, coffees, cake and everything in between.

00:39 A Market Towns festive programme is very ambitious despite not hosting the popular Christmas

00:45 fair according to Councillor Cliff Waterman, leader of West Suffolk Council.

00:51 Last winter there were calls for greater aspiration over the replacement for the Bury St Edmunds

00:55 Christmas Fair after many visitors were left disappointed with the scale of what was on

00:59 offer.

01:00 A series of smaller events including a synthetic ice rink at the Ark shopping centre and Peter

01:06 and the Wolf Live in the Abbey Gardens has been organised by partners to replace the

01:11 West Suffolk Council-led fair.

01:13 Councillor Waterman felt the fair had outlived its purpose.

01:17 And our top story of the week.

01:19 Tributes have been pouring in for a happy and smiley mum who died following a car crash

01:24 earlier this year.

01:26 Annie Thompson, 35, from Stow Market was returning home with her two children from a holiday

01:31 near Sheringham when the accident happened on 17th August.

01:36 Miss Thompson, a mental health support worker, was in intensive care for five weeks following

01:41 the accident.

01:43 A fundraising drive to help support Annie's family was set up shortly after the accident

01:48 which has now raised more than £7,000.

01:52 And that's everything for now. For more breaking news, visit the Suffolk News website.

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