The Local Newspaper

The elegant Georgian streets and bustling shopping mews of Holt make it one of the jewels in Norfolk’s crown.

Owners of a north Norfolk hotel are defying the current economic downturn by adding an £80,000 extension.

A BUSINESS advisory group which meets in Fakenham library has announced its forthcoming programme.

South Norfolk Council has set a fourth council tax freeze in five years.

A last ditch effort from campaigners to get controversial hikes to parking charges across north Norfolk thrown out has been lost after finance chiefs rubber stamped their budget.

Soldiers from East Anglia are weeks away from being pitched into the complex conflict in Afghanistan – and their commander says they are “supremely well prepared” for the challenge.

The efforts of unsung, community-minded youngsters to help others will not go unnoticed any longer thanks to a new Lions Club initiative which seeks to end negative stereotypes of the young.

A MAN has been taken to hospital after a car collided with a shop window in Downham market place.

Plans to build a controversial £6m mega church in Drayton have finally been withdrawn, but could be revived on a vacant five-acre site in Hellesdon.

A GROUP of schoolchildren went head-to-head against a team from the University of East Anglia on Wednesday as they took part in their first competitive polo match.

Firefighters were called to deal with a blaze involving a fence and a couple of wheelie bins during the early hours of yesterday morning.

A passenger carrying a shaving razor and acting suspiciously led to a train from Norwich being met in London by police today (Wednesday).

AN inquest has been opened and adjourned this afternoon (Wednesday) into the death of three-year-old Rio Bell, who died following an incident near Lynn Mart.

Tributes to a talented teenager found dead at the weekend have continued to flood in.

Several items of jewellery and cash have been stolen following a burglary in Thorpe St Andrew.

A semi-retired couple from north Norfolk have been left astounded after inheriting two runaway sheep and hope to reunite them with their owner.

The family of a Dereham schoolgirl punched and kicked in an unprovoked attack have made a desperate plea for information about the crime.

Tributes have been paid to a former hotelier dubbed “Mr Great Yarmouth” who dedicated much of his life to the town.

A new Red Cross shop has opened in a Norfolk town to add to the growing number of charity shops in the high street.

A teenager from Reepham College has won a national Young Scientist of the Year award despite having a bitter taste during experiments.