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When at Bury St Edmunds market one day the auctioneer failed to turn up so he offered his services - the very first time he had ever auctioned. His widow Ann Reeve said he was a "natural auctioneer" and he was ‘hooked’ thus carried on auctioneering in Bury St Edmunds and other local auctions for many years. He then started to auction at Methwold, near Thetford, and later purchased the business in the 1970s. George Reeve (left) in 2018 at the Methwold Auction Mart - Credit: Ian Burt Mrs Reeve said: "George was a very good and amusing auctioneer and would hold all sorts of extra auction...

Premium Content Subscriber only WITHIN as little as three months, you could be playing tunes on bagpipes, according to City of Ipswich Pipe Band’s leading musician Nick Tomkins. Aspiring musicians across Ipswich are able to check out the classes on offer at the pipe band’s educational arm at its open day this Saturday. The Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming will showcase its classes, giving new students the chance to sign up and learn a new instrument. Pipe Major Nick Tomkins said, with a good tutor, learning the bagpipes wasn’t too tricky. Greater Ipswich College of Pi...