News in Wells

TICKETS are now on sale for the 2019 Wells Theatre Festival which boasts an expanded programme for its second year, 17 productions being performed over the weekend of July 11-14.

Imogen will be performing a rehearsed reading of David Hare's Amy's View alongside her daughter, Ellie Nunn.

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THE Old Deanery has gone up for sale with an asking price of £2.

5 million.

Prospective buyers have until September 12 to submit their bids – and local estate agents Lodestone Property, who are marketing it, say that there has already been interest.

"We've already had approaches," said managing partner Cathy Morris-Adams.

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The police are appealing for information after a man was found injured on the A39 at Coxley.

Officers were alerted by the ambulance service just after 11.30pm on Monday 27 May, and the road was closed until 10am today (May 28). A man in his 50s was taken to hospital with injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening.

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A rediscovered pencil drawing made by the great artist John Constable is expected to make up to £8,000 at auction - and it was drawn on paper made in Wells.

The drawing titled "A River Landscape: A group of tall trees on the left, a bend of the river with willows on the far bank on the right, in the background a hill with a castle" is thought perhaps to be Framlingham Castle, as it was 30 miles north of East Bergholt, where Constable resided. He also drew the castle many times between 1800 and 1815.

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