Headway Suffolk and Headway Norfolk and Waveney are to join forces to provide specialist homecare support for adults with brain injury, stroke and neurological conditions in Lowestoft.

Local brain injury survivors Amy Cowley and Ruby have shared their stories to help raise awareness of brain injury and the work of Headway Suffolk during Action for Brain Injury Week from 13-19 May.

Sixty-eight cyclists and walkers braved “brutal” Storm Hannah to take part in Headway Suffolk’s Cycle Ride and Walk in Ipswich on 27 April to raise money for the brain injury charity. Among those taking part was 18-year-old Mark Baines, who is blind and deaf after suffering a brain haemorrhage as a young child, who was propelled round the course by his parents and Headway support workers.

The possibilities for electric freight transport, and potentially driverless freight vehicles, were up for discussion at a Road Transport Briefing hosted by regional law firm Ashtons Legal at Trinity Park in Ipswich on Thursday.

It has been a momentous year for us at Team Corbel- we have continued to pioneer through technological advances and look proactively at how we can deliver the very best technology and disaster recovery solutions to meet real business needs with a great seamless experience for our customers.

Suffolk-based Ashtons Legal is partnering with regional accountancy firm Price Bailey to deliver a new service which will give Suffolk businesses an alternative, cost-effective way of resolving business disputes. This is being done through the multi-award winning Escalate dispute resolution service.

Neurology charity Headway Suffolk hosts its fifth annual Neuro Conference on Wednesday 16 October at Wherstead Park in Ipswich from 9.30am - 4.30pm. The five keynote speakers are: Chris Tarrant (TV presenter); Dr Jane Hawking (first wife to Prof Stephen Hawking); Dr Hilda Hayo (Chief Admiral Nurse, Dementia UK); Dr Charlotte Brierley (Neurologist); Dr MR Chowdhury (stroke consultant).