This town is about 30 miles outside Ipswich.
Me and my mates visit it fairly often to go to Studio 3 (which is a very well run and mostly trouble free venue).
I wouldn’t class it as a rough place compared to London or Reading, but other than in Studio 3 I’d be wary to go out on my own at night there (particularly being from an ethnic minority group). If I did I certainly wouldn’t casually “talk to strangers” in the street.
I think some got beaten up in that town a few months ago , just because they were from Poland :hopeless:
There is also a worryingly increasingly level of domestic violence (between people known to one another) in this area..
THE mother of a murder victim has voiced her fears over a surge in violent crime in a Suffolk town.
The concern was raised just hours after a 24-year-old man was stabbed in St Andrew’s Street North in Bury St Edmunds – the latest in a string of alarming incidents.
Police cordoned off the road and the victim, who is thought to have staggered 50 yards up the street before collapsing, was treated at West Suffolk Hospital before being released last night. Police are questioning two men, aged 23 and 24, in connection with the incident.
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