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China opens new Arctic trade route – but obstacles will prevent its wider use

Sea Legend, a Chinese shipping line, recently announced it was launching a regular container service between China and Europe via the Arctic. The announcement follows a trial crossing in 2025 that saw a container ship travel from the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in eastern China to Felixstowe in the UK in…

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The missed chances to catch Suffolk strangler Steve Wright after Victoria Hall's murder

The missed opportunities that led to a 26-year wait for Suffolk strangler Steve Wright to be sentenced for killing Victoria Hall

Evening Standard

Suffolk Strangler: How it took 26 years to finally solve Victoria Hall’s murder

Police are facing renewed calls to investigate unsolved disappearances after Suffolk serial killer Steve Wright admitted to kidnapping and murdering Victoria Hall, 17, seven years before his other murders

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Serial killer Steve Wright jailed for 1999 teenager’s murder

The Suffolk strangler kidnapped and murdered the schoolgirl in a village on the outskirts of Felixstowe.

Evening Standard

Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright jailed for 40 years for murdering Victoria Hall like ‘a predator stalking for his prey’

Serial killer Steve Wright, 67, dramatically changed his plea and admitted killing Victoria Hall in 1999

The Independent UK

Serial killer Steve Wright caused victim’s family ‘untold distress’, court told

Wright has admitted the kidnap and murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall near Felixstowe.

Evening Standard

Warning over scam adverts selling fake tickets for cruises from a container port

Adverts selling cruises showing off the ‘quiet charm’ of Felixstowe container port have been flagged as scams

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Coasts with the most: top seaside destinations vying for the London-on-sea crown

These seaside property hotspots are edgier and more affordable than their better-known, chichi rivals

Evening Standard

Protesting farmers are having to fight off the radical right, conspiracy theorists and climate sceptics

Thousands of farmers travelled to London on November 19 to protest the new government’s first budget and its imposition of new inheritance tax rules. Nearly a month later, on December 12, there was another protest, this time with more tractors, fewer celebrities, and only a tiny fraction of the media…

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Brother and sister give up school to care for parents paralysed in horror crash

Darius Linkus and his wife Saule, from Felixstowe, were both left paralysed after a horrific moped crash while on holiday in Spain after he had headed to Ukraine providing aid as a volunteer

Daily Mirror

Mum left in hysterics at son's rude drawing of 'whisk' in epic homework blunder

Kelly Sullivan, from Felixstowe, had to hold in her giggles as her little boy Arlo showed off the drawing of a whisk he did for homework but many can only see one thing

Daily Mirror

Fresh strike for workers at UK’s largest container port

Around 1,900 members of Unite at Felixstowe will walk out.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of Liverpool container workers set for two-week strike

Latest pay dispute could further disrupt UK supply chains already hit by walkouts at Felixstowe port

The Guardian - UK

Felixstowe port receives notice of second strike in dispute over pay

More than 1,900 workers at Felixstowe, the country’s biggest container port, walked out last month.

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Felixstowe port receives notice of second strike as workers seek 10% pay rise

The strike action will coincide with a two-week walkout by workers at the port of Liverpool

The Guardian - UK

‘Storm coming’: Britain in a mess as ruinous energy bills meet austerity

Talk on picket line in Felixstowe and high street in Ipswich says new PM has just weeks to tackle crisis

Daily Mirror

Unions threaten to cripple Britain's largest port in fight for decent pay offer

Some 1,900 members of Unite trade union at Felixstowe Port in Suffolk have gone on strike in a row over pay - prior to the strike, workers were offered an 8% pay rise but this was rejected

The Guardian - UK

Workers’ anger at cost of living as strong as time of poll tax riots, union boss says

Sharon Graham, head of Unite, on picket line with Felixstowe dock strikers, says people could rise up again as they did in the 1990s

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Warning to Christmas shoppers amid Port of Felixstowe disruption

Experts warn 'you may not be able to get the Christmas goods that you wanted'

Daily Mirror

Summer of discontent as UK hit by huge energy bills, axed flights and strike delays

The UK is facing a summer of discontent with rising energy bills, soaring food prices, flight cancellations, a looming recession and strikes expected across the country in the coming months

Daily Mirror

Why are Felixstowe workers going on strike and how will it affect supermarkets?

Felixstowe Port workers are now on their second day of strikes, with thousands of employees taking industrial action in a dispute over pay amid the cost of living crisis

Wales Online

Britain's biggest port hit by first day of eight-day strike

Latest industrial action in the UK

Reuters

Workers at UK's biggest container port Felixstowe due to begin 8-day strike

More than 1,900 workers at Britain's biggest container port are due on Sunday to start eight days of strike action which their union and shipping companies warn could seriously affect trade and supply chains.

The Conversation

UK strikes: how industrial action at a major port could disrupt supplies of clothing, cars and canned food

The ability to move products from A to B has been affected by COVID and Brexit-related bottlenecks in recent years, as well as rising concerns about the environmental impact of how companies supply our goods. The unpredictability of global markets has continued to affect logistics in 2022. In addition to…

The Guardian - UK

Strikes expected at Felixstowe port as pay talks end without agreement

Dock workers at vital Suffolk container port offered 7% pay rise and £500 lump sum

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