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BBC News
07-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Needham Market student says he is helping teenagers escape crime
After moving to the UK from Zimbabwe in 2022, DJ Mudziviri started "hanging around with the wrong groups" and doing things he "can't mention".But, three years on, he says he is now helping steer others away from crime, drugs, and gang violence, having left behind what he describes as a "horrific" way of summer, the 18-year-old from Needham Market founded Better Youth UK - to give teenagers with limited opportunities the chance to make money trying to make a difference to the lives of young people, DJ won a community champion award from the Eastern Education Group, which runs Suffolk One, where he studies. "It felt amazing and it was a very happy moment for me. I was jumping and me and the family celebrated," said the health and social care student."I was really happy because people hadn't seen that side of me because they had a bad interpretation of me, so, I am very, very grateful." DJ and his team identify young people who may require support through their outreach programme, which sees them visit cities across the says he then provides them with an opportunity."I say, 'If you were to make the same amount of money you're making illegally, legally, would you choose the legal way?', and they always say 'yes'," he said."They want money quick, but they don't know who to reach out to in order to make a legal income."We actually help young people and give them more opportunities to express themselves." Those who decide to take up DJ's offer of a life away from drugs and gang violence are tasked with selling the Better Youth UK copy costs £10, with £6 going to the person who sells it. The remaining £4 is put back into funding more outreach programmes and and his team also offer mental health support and hold monthly workshops to inspire people to set up their own have helped a young woman set up as a hairdresser and another become the boss of her own nail business."Whilst out working they are working for themselves," said DJ."The benefit is they are not looking behind their back for the police trying to nick them or the competition that might steal their products."They can work without fear of harm or prosecution." 'Real life stories' DJ, who moved to the UK with his "proud" mum Anna, says he started the organisation with "a lot" of his own money – but he says he was "determined" to provide the younger generation with a way out."I was having sleepless nights trying to design the website," he said."But I set it up because I didn't want other young people to go through [what I had] - because the things I saw were very horrific."Following the success of Better Youth UK's first award-winning year, DJ is now looking towards the future."We want to go into schools and hold talks, because young people don't like listening to a 30-year-old man who has no experience [of youth crime]", he said."They want real life stories with people who have been through it."I am not the solution, but I am part of the solution to help reduce these issues among young people." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
15-05-2025
- BBC News
Suffolk Police in fresh bid to find parents of Baby S
A police force has launched a fresh bid to trace the parents of a baby found dead at a recycling plant five years the anniversary of the discovery of Baby S, Suffolk Police is asking the public to review bin collection points to help them find the relatives of the body of the baby girl was found on 14 May 2020 at Sackers Yard in Needham Market, and an inquest in 2022 found she had suffered a traumatic brain Insp Dan Connick, of the joint major investigations team, said: "There's no-one advocating for that child, there's no family we can identify, so someone's got to be the voice of that child." He revealed the two routes - red and blue - that bin lorries at the time would have taken, but added that while the infant was "most likely" picked up on the blue route, the red route could not be ruled out. "The bins being collected were industrial bins from companies but some were behind locked gates," Det Insp Connick told the BBC."We're here to find the answers, there's help available if that's what's needed. There's a father out there, grandparents, potentially siblings."The newly-released red route runs between Rattlesden and Wherstead, passing through Barking, Needham Market, Claydon, Sproughton and Ipswich, whilst the blue route runs from outside Darmsden to Washbrook, through Ipswich before reaching is not clear whether the parents would face criminal charges for the disposal of the baby's Insp Connick added: "Until people come forward and tell us what happened we're not able to give any answers to what the outcome might be. "But the safeguarding of individuals and the wellbeing of individuals and families is our paramount consideration." A full DNA profile for the mother has been found and that is currently being searched against a national also have a partial DNA profile for the father and have conducted a "complex" investigation involving familial DNA searches which has taken them across the match has yet been made for either the DNA profile gathered the officers have confirmed the baby was either black or had mixed ethnicity. Baby S was discovered as the country was emerging from lockdown. Officers are keen to speak to anyone who may remember noticing someone pregnant around that time."A pregnancy would be something that would be quite hard to disguise if you were living with someone," said Det Insp Connick."The baby was full-term, it would have been quite hard to have not noticed that."I really urge people to have a think back to that time coming out of lockdown five years ago, the nice weather, where you were and if there's anything relevant, no matter how small, please contact us."We can say with certainty that the baby was alive when it was born, it took a breath and it died subsequently." 'Profoundly affected' The senior officer also told the BBC that staff at Sackers Yard had been "profoundly affected" by the discovery of the baby and continued to visit the grave to clean it and leave said: "It's something that reaches right to the core of us as human beings - we want to find the answers."Their information could provide answers for a lot of people. "If you put yourself in the place of those people who were working at Sackers Yard that day, what they came across that day, it still resonates with them. "Help them find the answers - contact us, work with us, help us find some of those answers and help us find a conclusion."
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Yahoo
Person injured in fire at takeaway restaurant
A fire at a Chinese takeaway restaurant has left one person injured. Firefighters were called to Station Yard in Needham Market, Suffolk to reports the first floor of a three-storey building was ablaze at 05:45 BST. Four pumps and an aerial appliance were tackling the fire. Police were also on the scene, and pictures showed the roof had been badly damaged. A Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said one person was being treated for burns to their face, arms and feet but everyone else had been accounted for. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service
BBC News
13-05-2025
- BBC News
Needham Market fire sees person suffer facial burns
A fire at a takeaway restaurant has left one person were called to Station Yard in Needham Market, Suffolk to reports the first floor of a three-storey building was ablaze at 05:45 pumps and an aerial appliance were tackling the fire. Police were also on the scene, and pictures showed the roof had been badly damaged.A Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said one person was being treated for burns to their face, arms and feet but everyone else had been accounted for. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
