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Rob shares your top hymn choices after chatting with Pam Rhodes about her new double album which celebrates 25 years of presenting 'Songs of Praise.'

She's hand-picked thirty tracks, old and new, for 'Hearts and Hymns'.

The team from the Hadleigh Porch Project were presented with the Judging Panel's Special Award at Babergh District Council's Community Achievement awards for 2012.

Rob hears from the Very Reverend Martin Thrower, along with team members Craig Hutton and Chris Parmenter.

The issue of poverty in Suffolk, particularly Lowestoft, is examined with views from the Citizens Advice Bureau and Rev Canon Graham Hedger.

He is Assistant Diocesan Secretary and also a founding member of the Suffolk Foundation and said: "We by and large have a good quality of life and people see our county as a picture postcard.

"But people may not realise that there are a huge number of people existing on a low income. There is real suffering in Suffolk behind the picture postcard images, a huge amount of hidden need."

There's a special prayer from The Rev Andrew Dotchin, Vicar of Whitton in Ipswich , remembering the victims of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in north-eastern Japan.

The latest on church opposition to allow gay couples to marry is discussed with Father Tony Rogers from Our Lady and St Peter's in Aldeburgh.

In a letter to thousands of parish congregations, the church's two most senior archbishops say the change would reduce the significance of marriage.

There's a new catholic church in Diss, the Dean of St Edmundsbury cathedral looks ahead to her sponsored poetry read at the end of the month and how God made the English.

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