Norfolk County, England News

A judge has said more rigorous checks should be made on carers who look after vulnerable people after a 20-year-old stole from three women she was meant to be helping.

Villages are joining with Cromer to put pressure on Norfolk County Council to boost safety on a busy stretch of road.

Plans to build 50 new homes on a former Norfolk dementia care home site have so far received 12 letters from residents, many of whom are concerned about loss of privacy and a lack of research into a new use for the building.

WISBECH anti immigration demo organiser Dean Everitt said that UKIP speakers withdrew from yesterday's rally for fear the media "would use their appearance as racist propaganda". Mr Everitt told a crowd of some 300 in Wisbech Park that two Lincolnshire UKIP councillors originally due to speak had sent letters explaining their position.

They gathered to hear speakers, many carrying placards calling for an end to migration and for Britain to leave the EU.

New Pinebanks plans are submitted, Thorpe St Andrew, May 2013 - pictured is the proposed cafe and information centre for the Griffin Lane site.

Firefighters from Beccles and Bungay tackled a small blaze in a binding machine at a leading north Suffolk printers and publishing service.

Billed as one of the big events of this weekend's Cromer and Sheringham Crab and Lobster Festival, the annual contest has been postponed until August 25 after organisers decided the conditions were not favourable.

FORMER Wisbech mayor Jonathan Farmer claims that putting the brakes on drinks licences in the town centre is "ineffective, won't make any difference and is anti business." Cllr Farmer said Wisbech had one of the lowest densities of pubs in the country and "what the town needs is more pubs and this measure isn't going to help". "We have to evidence ... (more)

Band Sounds Imperial celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles Norwich gig with a rooftop tribute on the balcony of the Forum, Norwich.

The PACT Phoenix Animal Sanctuary Charity Superstore re-opens on Norwich Street in Dereham - Chris Rockingham and Dereham Mayor Linda Monument, in front of the new store.

The men have been locked away for a total of 54 years after violently robbing two farmers at their rural home.

A blue plaque is set to mark the first place in Great Yarmouth to screen moving pictures - one of the marvels of the Victorian age.

INDIAN and Pakistani workers who had over stayed the terms of their visas and Chinese workers - one of who had entered the UK illegally- were among those arrested in Wisbech.

Police are today continuing to investigate the cause of a crash between a lorry and a car on the A47 near Dereham yesterday in which a man died.

A GROUP of UKIP councillors from Lincolnshire are due in Wisbech on Saturday to speak at an anti-immigration protest rally.

Virgina Gay, current leader of the NNDC Lib Dems, said Mr Williams had written to the group giving his reasons but she declined to say what they were.

The new Mayor of Diss has vowed to keep the town in the forefront of people's minds as he took over the mantle from outgoing mayor Graham Minshull.

Norwich City Council's planning committee this afternoon unanimously approved permission for the low-carbon Norwich Research Park Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia .

Anyone who watched the latest episode of Mary Queen of the High Street will have been mildly amused to see the retail diva encounter the good burghers of Margate.