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Ipswich's new festival, abortion advice and praying for prisoners

Ipswich's new multicultural festival, abortion advice and Suffolk's Prison Fellowship.

Mojlum Khan and Boshor Ali explain why a new multicultural festival has started in Ipswich.

Music, food and children's entertainment is free and open to all at Alexandra Park from 12pm to 5pm is free and open to all.

There's reaction to the call for changes to the abortion advice.

Conservative backbencher Nadine Dorries and Labour's Frank Field have put forward an amendment to the health bill that would strip abortion providers in England of their pregnancy counselling roles, opening them up to tenders from "independent" organisations.

There's a moving story of how a school project on the First World War revealed the story of an Anglican Chaplain battling with his faith on the front line.

And after the surge in prisoner numbers following the riots across England, the Prison Fellowship in Suffolk explain why prayer is needed more than ever.

3 hours

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  • Sun 4 Sep 2011 06:00