Great Yarmouth, England News

I smiled as my uncle handed me a photograph of a handsome young man in uniform. 'Another one to add to your entourage,' he laughed.

East Anglian MPs are among a dissident band of Tory backbenchers criticising the government's support for "inefficient" onshore wind turbines.

Ambulance crews had a busy day across the region today , with the wintry weather continuing to cause problems on the roads.

Frustrated internet users were given the chance to register their interest in better broadband at a sign-up event in Great Yarmouth at the weekend.

LOCAL band, Rivers, have wowed the judging panel of the UK's biggest original music competition and sailed through the audition stage of Live and Unsigned.

Ten youth groups across the county have been awarded a share of a 72,000 funding pot from the county council.

A MAJOR scheme to replace gas mains in a clutch of streets at the heart of Great Yarmouth could swing a breaker's ball through the tourist industry.

Prince Charles will step off the royal train to waving flags and excited crowds when he visits Great Yarmouth for an historic day that will be remembered for generations.

A tired bus driver lay down for a nap on the back seats of his bus without realising that a woman passenger was waiting outside in the cold.

Retailers in Norwich are helping to set the trend for the high street of the future as the city continues to buck the national trend for empty shops.

A charity golf day has raised more than 1,000 for a memorial fund which was launched following the deaths of four men in a Norfolk industrial accident.

Barclays said 1,000 new training posts would be offered in England and Wales, adding that it would recruit on aptitude and attitude rather than experience and qualifications focusing on young people who were not in employment, education or training.

The body of Graham Cook, 38, was found last Friday in a dyke next to the River Thurne in Potter Heigham.

The ship at the centre of the South Atlantic storm, HMS Dauntless, is affiliated to Great Yarmouth and has already paid a special visit to the port.

Temperatures were down to minus seven degrees in parts of the county and dipped to almost minus six in Norwich.

"I don't even like breakfast, I just do it for a laugh," said competitive eater Robert Pinto in the week he finished a 9lb fry up in 26 minutes.

A MAN in his 60s was punched in the head after he refused to hand over his wallet at a Great Yarmouth cashpoint.

The A47 has been cleared after a bus caught fire on a slip road at Postwick, near Norwich, earlier today.

A new conservation group has been set up to fight for improvements to a busy footpath and to link it to other footpaths in Norfolk.

It was thought to be an impossible feat - and a perhaps a foolhardy one at that: Just how many diners could consume a fry-up the size of a baby in under an hour? But it would seem one diner was man enough - and hungry enough - to take on the Kidz Breakfast culinary challenge.