After a decade of shared services and joint working, Suffolk Coastal and Waveney DCs will finally become one ‘super district' in April next year. They will be East Suffolk Council.

The merger will mark more than ten years in post as a shared chief executive for Stephen Baker, who took on the dual role in April 2008. Come 1 April, he will be back to running just one local authority as all the staff, offices and now councillors finally come together.