Norfolk grans celebrate with the Queen
Two Norfolk women born on the same day as the Queen joined guests at a prestigious luncheon at Buckingham Palace to mark her 80th birthday celebrations.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:20 pm
Teenager scarred for life after attack
An evening out with friends left a 19-year-old man scarred for life, after thugs slashed him with a broken bottle.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:45 pm
Giant wheel plans set to be refused
Controversial plans for a giant ferris wheel in the heart of Norwich are likely to be turned down after an overwhelming majority of residents opposed the idea.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 6:37 pm
Giant wheel plans set for refusal
Controversial plans for a giant ferris wheel in the heart of Norwich are likely to be turned down after an overwhelming majority of residents opposed the idea.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 6:34 pm
Farmland fears over nitrate row
The way land is farmed in the eastern region may have to change to cut nitrate pollution, a report warns.
From: BBC News 961 days ago 19/04/2006 4:35 pm
Easter Monday crash victim named
Police name the driver who died when his car crashed into a tree at Thetford.
From: BBC News 961 days ago 19/04/2006 3:33 pm
Bottle attack victim speaks out
A carpenter who was attacked with a broken bottle speaks of his ordeal.
From: BBC News 961 days ago 19/04/2006 1:56 pm
A mobile phone was stolen after a burglar broke into a house during the early hours of the morning. The occupant of the house in Wodehouse Street, Norwich, was woken by a noise and found a window had been forced open and his back door was ajar.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 12:30 pm
Offenders urged to 'give themselves up'
The detective leading the hunt for two men who stabbed a group of friends in King's Lynn on Saturday night (April 15th) has urged them to give themselves up to police.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 12:27 pm
Bird flu's 'risk to biodiversity'
The spread of bird flu poses serious risks to endangered species in many Asian countries, say UEA scientists.
From: BBC News 961 days ago 19/04/2006 11:46 am
Crime rates drop for third year
Violent crime, burglary and vehicle-related offences are falling across Norfolk, according to police figures.
From: BBC News 961 days ago 19/04/2006 11:29 am
A Wisbech woman was run over after falling from a bridge on the M25. Joanna Balmforth, 33, was hit by a car at about 9.40pm on Friday and pronounced dead at the scene after suffering multiple injuries.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 10:04 am
Cause of aircraft trouble a mystery
Investigators have been unable to find the cause of an accident in which a light aircraft crashed in a field at King's Lynn. A report released by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch failed to find exactly why the aircraft developed engine problems last November.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 10:02 am
An elderly woman who has fond childhood memories of gipsies wants to establish a travellers' site in a south Norfolk village - on land she does not own.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 10:00 am
Person wanted to seek out gipsy homes
Wanted: Someone with "resilience" and the "ability to stay calm and focussed with others in difficult situations" for what must be one of the most thankless jobs in local government.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 10:00 am
Family joy as RNLI medal returns
A lifeboat medal is heading home - after crossing the choppy waters of controversy. The bronze award, given to Cromer crewman William Allen in 1917, was due to go under the hammer later this week - and the local lifeboat station pleaded for a fairy godmother to step in to buy it for the town's new lifeboat museum.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 9:59 am
Fitting farewell paid to lifeboat legend
The boom of maroons and waves of seafaring hymns launched lifeboatman 'Tuna' Harrison on his last voyage yesterday. Three hundred people filed into Cromer Parish Church to pay their respects to the last of the lifeboat crew who rubbed shoulders with the legendary Henry Blogg and Shrimp Davies.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 9:58 am
Housing figure is 'fantasy land'
Ministers were last night accused of being in 'fantasy' land after suggesting a further five-figure increase in the number of extra homes they believe should be built in Norfolk - in less than a month.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 9:50 am
Restaurant plan for Sewell birthplace
People living near the birthplace of Black Beauty author Anna Sewell say the area will be ruined if an application goes through today to convert it into a restaurant.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 9:49 am
Police yesterday issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to an incident in which a bogus police officer turned on blue flashing lights and a siren and flagged down a motorist.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:26 am
City academy backer attacks sleaze slur
A Norfolk businessman involved in controversial plans to build a £20m city academy said he would be disappointed if the scheme was tarnished by current sleaze allegations.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:21 am
Ferry launch 'scuppered by red tape'
A Gorleston businessman has blamed Government red tape for scuppering the planned Easter launch of his new ferry service.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:16 am
Bishop John Hayden collected a cheque for more than £50,000 yesterday and told TARA GREAVES how the money donated by generous EDP readers for our Dying of Thirst Appeal was already helping the people of drought-hit Tanzania.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:05 am
Jet find could be 3,000 years old
Evidence of a roundhouse that could be up to 3,000 years old has been uncovered near the North Sea coast.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:04 am
Thousands of acres of agricultural land in eastern England should be grassed over or abandoned to safeguard water supplies, according to a radical report by an independent rural advisory service.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:03 am
An eerie silence shrouds the runways and hangars of closure-doomed RAF Coltishall. Skies that used to crackle behind roaring Jaguar jets have turned down the volume knob and gently twitter with singing skylarks.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 8:00 am
Rabbit roundabout gets a revamp
What to do with the long-eared invaders who have munched their way through the entire greenery on a roundabout in Wisbech is set to be debated again.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:58 am
DIY injection offer frees hospital beds
Patients at West Suffolk Hospital who would usually have to stay in hospital for several months to receive daily injections are being offered the chance to go home early thanks to a new service.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:50 am
High school celebrates 'turnaround'
A Norfolk high school is celebrating a remarkable turnaround to be taken off special measures.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:44 am
Shell-shocked May quits over new centre
The founder of a seaside town's preservation society has resigned as its president over its new tourist attraction.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:24 am
Beggar had been offered place to stay
A beggar savagely attacked in Norwich was found a place to stay in Lowestoft days ago - only to drift back onto the city streets.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:16 am
Campaigners battling plans to cut trees in their leafy Norwich street have been urged not to give up the fight, despite suggestions they may be set for victory.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:12 am
Businessman told signs should go
A Watton businessman is likely to have to remove unauthorised signs from the front of two listed buildings in the town.
From: edp24.co.uk 961 days ago 19/04/2006 7:11 am
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From: Norwich Portal 961 days ago 19/04/2006 12:00 am