A purpose-built facility for the popular French game, also known as boules, is due to be constructed at Beccles Quay, marking the culmination of seven years of planning and fundraising by the Beccles Twinning Association.

Work is scheduled to start on October 12, just days before visitors from Beccles' twin town of Petit-Couronne in Normandy arrive for this year's exchange visit.

The project celebrates a friendship that has linked two communities since 1978 and aims to create a permanent space where locals and visitors........

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