diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index f7d0c623a..f34993ed7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Airbase 129
 
 * Checkstyle updates:
   - Require package name to match the source directory
+  - Suppress Checkstyle within text-blocks
 * Dependency updates:
   - joda-time 2.10.14 (from 2.10.13)
   - slf4j 1.7.36 (from 1.7.32)
diff --git a/airbase-policy/src/main/resources/checkstyle/airbase-checks.xml b/airbase-policy/src/main/resources/checkstyle/airbase-checks.xml
index b019b6284..0600979c8 100644
--- a/airbase-policy/src/main/resources/checkstyle/airbase-checks.xml
+++ b/airbase-policy/src/main/resources/checkstyle/airbase-checks.xml
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
         "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
         "http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
 <module name="Checker">
+    <!-- TODO: Remove this supression once RegexpMultiline has been replaced with an AST aware check -->
+    <!-- This suprpresses Checkstyle between onccurences of """", i.e. text blocks -->
+    <module name="SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter">
+        <property name="offCommentFormat" value='=\s+"""'/>
+        <property name="onCommentFormat" value='^\s+.*""";'/>
+    </module>
+
     <module name="FileTabCharacter" />
     <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
         <property name="lineSeparator" value="lf" />