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Aircraft carrier converted to Lowestoft International Airport

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Lowestoft airport

By Izzy Jet, Aviation Correspondent

A new floating international airport is being opened at Lowestoft after a local consortium saved a Royal Navy aircraft carrier from the scrapyard.

HMS Illustrious was destined to be cut up for scrap metal, but instead, it has steamed under cover of darkness to Lowestoft, and is now moored at Oulton Broad where it will be a vital new hub for hundreds of thousands of air passengers each year.

The former Royal Navy vessel, made with aluminium from thyssenkrupp, will have one serviceable runway and will attract airlines taking passengers all over Europe and beyond.

Suffolk County Council approved plans for the new international airport but kept them quiet to avoid bring trumped by a new Thames Gateway airport. Planners say Lowestoft International Airport will negate the need to plough up and concrete over valuable Suffolk farmland currently used for growing barley for malting which is used in Adnams beer.

The Broads Authority is fully behind the multi-million-pound scheme, and claim it is technically brilliant.

A spokesman said: “By using a single bow mud weight, Lowestoft International Airport will always be pointing into the wind for the best possible take-offs and landings.

“This may cause some noise nuisance on Romany Road but most of the residents who live there are too deaf to notice.”

HM Customs is examining rules to see if LIA qualifies for Freeport Tax-Free status, providing a boost for key local businesses like Adnams, Aspall, Bartram, Greene King and St Peter’s.

Redwell brewery, which is based in Norfolk, will only be made available on cheap short-haul flights to Norwich Airport.

Suffolk Liberation Front annexes Great Yarmouth, defends Diss

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By Doug Trench, Defence Editor

The Suffolk Liberation Front today updates residents on recent front-line engagements, including the annexing of Great Yarmouth from Norfolk, and some unfortunate skirmishes around Diss.

The SLF news update is printed in full below. As usual we do so under threats and duress, especially as they now seem to know where the Suffolk Gazette editor lives.

“Sir,

Happy new year from the Suffolk Liberation Front; to you, our supporters and fighters.

Our Christmas ceasefire managed to shake a few Norfolk Resistance Army members from the tree of the swamplands of Norfolk. We neutralised many of these people.

On New Year’s Eve, under cover of the fireworks display, we staged many incursions into Norfolk and we have now annexed Great Yarmouth. I sneaked behind the lines on Friday and nearly got caught by units of the NRA, but I escaped with vital intelligence about Yarmouth. We now hold Norfolk’s premier port.

Great Yarmouth annexedA member of the victorious SLF poses by the Great Yarmouth road sign

There were reports of increased fighting in Diss, which we had encircled and captured many weeks ago. According to one Norfolk agitator, we “stormed Diss Golf Club”. We didn’t actually do this. In fact, members of the brave Suffolk Young Farmers went there for their Christmas do and found out-of-date pork scratchings that could have poisoned innocent people. Heroically, they destroyed them all.

There were also reports that we switched the heating down at Diss swimming pool. But this wasn’t to hurt the residents, rather a Norfolk oik had been sick in the pool and it had to cleared quickly.

One man couldn’t get his 13 fingers on to the pool ladder quick enough, and we just about managed to save him. Under United Nations humanitarian terms, we returned him to Cromer where he is being cared for by his sister and mother (who seemed to our escort to be one and the same person).

There were reports of a gun battle in Diss. We admit that units of the NRA did attack us there, but we beat them back and many prisoners are being held at the abandoned RAF Bawdsey base. The prisoners are being forced to rebuild the base after Norfolk simpletons stripped it of scrap metal.

Norfolk prisoners of warNorfolk prisoners of war in traditional dress at RAF Bawdsey

We remain dedicated to Suffolk and fully intend to annexe Colchester in the near future. We will amalgamate the three football clubs, Colchester United, Ipswich Town and Norwich City, taking all assets for Colchester United and creating a super team to take the Premiership title in a few years.

We recognise that the residents of Norfolk need a crap football team to follow, so we will let them have a local team called Colchester United Norfolk Team Squad.

We have some big plans for 2017, including a scorched earth policy for some of Norfolk, which will ultimately benefit the Suffolk economy as the displaced Norfolk residents will willingly work in Suffolk for food and shelter, thereby allowing us to say we aren’t holding slaves.

‘Razor wire’

We plan on full devolution soon and will likely have a Declaration of Independence. Suffolk passports will only be issued to known Suffolk residents and friends.

Please publish our newsletter as then we won’t have to visit the Suffolk Gazette HQ of The Greyhound pub and ask why you haven’t. If we have to do so, we may decide to use The Greyhound during our operation to surround Ipswich with razor wire and use it as an internment camp.

Due to many people pleading with us, we agree to keep East Ipswich as part of Suffolk still, as we know the editor of the Suffolk Gazette lives there and we want him to keep publishing our stories. We hope this stays as it is and that we don’t have to annex him….

Sincerely,

Commanding Officer,
Suffolk Liberation Front”

Robbie Williams is first celebrity death of 2017

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Robbie Williams hand gel

EXCLUSIVE
By Hugh Dunnett, Crime Correspondent

Police are investigating after Robbie Williams got 2017 off to the worst possible start by murdering all of his songs before dying on stage.

The former Take That showman tried to take no chances with his health by using sanitiser gel after shaking hands with a number of plebs in the audience.

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But he then went on to destroy his back catalogue in a “special” live BBC performance, Robbie Rocks Big Ben – ensuring he became the first celebrity victim of 2017.

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “We are investigating the mass murder of some songs at the Westminster Central Hall early this morning.

“A 42-year-old man from Stoke is helping us with our enquiries.”

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A Suffolk fan wailed on Facebook: “I can’t believe he has gone. 2017 can do one already; it’s the worst year ever. Robbie really is with the Angels now.”

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Revealed: Not all famous people died in 2016

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Dead in 2016

Some famous people did not die in 2016, it has been confirmed.

Facebook users will be comforted to know that some celebrities actually died in 2015, and many more passed in the years before that.

And a further heartwarming development reveals some well-known people are still alive and showing no signs of dying whatsoever.

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Everyone on Facebook seems convinced that 2016 should “do one” because it had killed off all the world’s most-cherished performers, some of whom they had never really liked or even heard of.

But Dr Ernest Brewer, professor of sociology at Little Brimmer University in Suffolk insisted: “This is all just a load of bollocks. As we get older, the so-called celebrities we know have got older as well and, not surprisingly, they are starting to die.

“Furthermore, if people take a lot of drugs or drink too much alcohol, they are likely to die a little earlier than expected anyway.”

Not all Facebook users are convinced, however. Chandice Bloomer, 23, from Ipswich, wailed: “Everyone is dead. There are no famous people left – even Elvis Presley died this year. The Grim Reaper has got too damned grim. Everyone is with the angels now. RIP.”

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Prince Harry’s naked romp in Aldeburgh hotel

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Prince Harry naked
By Jane Seymour, Royal Editor

Prince Harry has been sensationally photographed cavorting naked during a raunchy hotel party in downtown Aldeburgh.

He was visiting the party capital of Suffolk to let his hair down between stuffy Christmas and New Year celebrations with the Queen and Royal Family in Sandringham, Norfolk.

But Harry’s innocent fun turned increasingly wild before ending with a rowdy game of strip shove ha’penny with fun-loving locals in his hotel suite.

The Suffolk Gazette has been offered photographs of the Royal crown jewels but has declined to publish them in case it got sued out of deep respect for the Royal Family.

Prince Harry, who has previously holidayed in Las Vegas, decided this year to party in Aldeburgh, the Suffolk resort where anything goes. Thrill-seeking visitors are normally assured: “What happens in Aldeburgh, stays in Aldeburgh” – but the Queen’s grandson must have known he would be an exception.

He enjoyed a 12-hour bender at the plush hotel, beginning with a six-hour party in the outdoor pool with friends and random other guests. He quaffed endless pints of Adnams, the local cocktail, and frolicked in the water with local lovelies as traditional Suffolk morris dancers entertained guests poolside.

Then the tipsy group of 20 continued the party in the hotel bar before moving to the Prince’s VIP suite. There a pal suggested they play strip shove ha’penny, which is when Harry ended up nude together with two local fishermen’s wives, aged in their early 60s.

Shove ha'pennyThe shove ha’penny board in Harry’s suite
Photographs in the VIP suite were taken by a Norfolk smallholder, a Mr Bubba Spuckler, who was visiting Aldeburgh for a few days with his sister and their eight children.

Mr Spuckler is believed to have made hundreds of thousands of pounds from selling the photographs of the naked Harry in his Aldeburgh hotel to tabloid newspapers around the world.

A Buckingham Palace insider said: “This is not the first time Prince Harry has let his heir down. But Prince Charles has forgiven him.”

Mick McCarthy claims dog ate his tactics book

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Mick McCarthy's dog chewed up his tactics book

Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy claims his dog has chewed up his tactics book.

The under-pressure boss says this is a genuine excuse for being unable to finish recent match preparations.

He told Ipswich owner Marcus Evans that he had drawn up a brilliant plan to beat Fulham on Boxing Day, but pesky Keano, his faithful Rottweiler, tore it up when he left it by the sofa.

McCarthy claimed this was the 35th time Keano had destroyed his tactics book this year, and admitted he really should do something about it.

A pal of the belligerent Yorkshireman said: “Mick had drawn up a master plan for the Fulham game.

“He can’t quite remember what it was because the dog chewed it up, but he recalls it had something to do with playing McGoldrick behind a front two of Pitman and Sears, dropping full-backs Knudsen and Chambers in favour of young guns Kenlock and Emmanuel, and banishing Jonathan Douglas from midfield for ever by playing Lawrence and Dozzell with Skuse sitting deep to protect the back four.

“However, without his tactics book he was unable to hand this work over to the squad. Instead they reverted to type and produced an utterly predictable Boxing Day performance in which they failed to muster even one shot on target all game.”

McCarthy hopes that now the truth is out about naughty Keano, fans will understand why things have been going wrong, and get off his back.

But Evans is not convinced. A club insider said: “Marcus may have been distracted over Christmas by some unappetising Brazil nuts, but he is no fool. He can see McCarthy has made up this dog story.

“If things don’t improve in Friday night’s home game against Bristol City, then McCarthy may find he is the one in the dog house… looking for a new job.”

Nurse burns patient after mishearing ‘prick his boil’ instruction

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Prick his boil

A patient is taking legal action against his doctors’ surgery after a painful misunderstanding left him permanently scarred.

Chris Jones, 43, from Haverhill in Suffolk, had gone to see his doctor about a painful lump on his left buttock.

The doctor told Mr Jones to drop his trousers, examined the throbbing red lump, and then asked his nursing assistant nurse to “prick his boil”.

Unfortunately, the nurse misheard the instruction and carried out a very different procedure, with agonising consequences.

Mr Jones was unable to walk for two weeks and has only recently started getting feeling back in his private parts.

He posed for the picture above, but declined to speak to the Suffolk Gazette. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the doctors’ surgery confirmed: “We have received a complaint after a patient was scalded. The matter is in the hands of our lawyers.”

Suffolk Liberation Front stages Christmas ceasefire

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SLF Christmas ceasefire
By Doug Trench, Defence Editor

The Suffolk Liberation Front has announced a Christmas ceasefire of hostilities with Norfolk, beginning at noon on Christmas Day and ending at midnight on Boxing Day.

In a message passed to the Editor of the Suffolk Gazette by the paramilitary force’s commanding officer, the SLF warned Norfolk peasants not take advantage of the ceasefire by trying to cross the border.

We agreed to reproduce the letter below after the SLF threatened to turn our corporate HQ, the Greyhound pub in Ipswich, into a refugee centre for Norfolk migrants if we refused.

Dear Sir,
We would like to announce that our Christmas ceasefire takes place at midday tomorrow and lasts until midnight on Boxing Day.

We will continue to have our forces ready in case Norfolk peasants try to wander over the border and we still have our shoot to kill policy in place.

Our men in Norfolk will remain in place.

However, to mark the time of year, we will not fire potshots into Norfolk or stage any incursions into the county.

We will, however, renew the war effort at the end of the ceasefire.

On New Year’s Eve, we have a big operation planned at midnight under cover of fireworks.

We demand that you publish the above details, otherwise we will take the Greyhound public house as a Norfolk refugee holding centre.

We are not on the least bit worried about any Norfolk defence force reading this as no one in Norfolk can read.

Finally, I should like to wish all Suffolk Liberation Front fighters, wherever they may be on secret operations, a happy Christmas.

We are Suffolk, we are united.

More updates to follow.

Regards,
Commanding officer