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In our weekly Memory Lane Schooldays feature, we look back 10 years...Pupils at Lynn’s Churchill Park School were thrilled to see their overgrown pond replaced with a brand new seating area for teens to use for socialising, in November 2013. It was all made possible thanks to a community project by Tesco and Carters.Diane Whitham, the head teacher, said: “Our young people felt they had no outdoor area to socialise

I have written elsewhere this week about the abundance of wonderful places to eat in West Norfolk – well I’ve just found another one and it’s only just across from my office in Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place.The Crown & Mitre pub in Ferry Street reopened to much anticipation this summer and after a slow launch has recently started serving food – they obviously waited to get things right, and I

Hunstanton-based Promenade Leisure Company won the coveted Small Business of the Year at this Year’s Mayor’s Business Awards – and now the fight is on to see who can win the category for 2024.Judges cited the company’s ambition throughout the year, which had resulted in them releasing a new rock-sweet product.They beat strong competition from runners-up East Coast Signs and WhataHoot and Helen Peak, of category sponsors Mapus-Smith and Lemmon,

A 47-year-old woman is pushing herself out of her comfort zone to raise money for a West Norfolk baby bereavement charity.Lisa Rudd, from Lynn, will be raising money for Theresa’s Tiny Treasures through a firewalk with Lynn waste management company Circle Waste.Working as a credit controller, Lisa has been at Circle Waste for more than five years and in her time there has taken part in two skydives for other

Work at a major town development has shed new light on the salt-making history of Gaywood’s North Marsh.Construction work for 226 new properties off Parkway in Gaywood kicked off at the beginning of the summer, with the end result to be known as Florence Fields when it is completed in 2027.Now, the development of homes and a new primary school off Greenpark Avenue in the area has revealed previously unknown

Movie buffs and cinema enthusiasts are in for a real treat as Lynn Film Festival starts on Thursday.The annual event, run by Lynn Community Cinema Club, is being staged mostly at the Corn Exchange Cinema in Tuesday Market Place, with a host of films on offer spread over four days.These include the chance to see family blockbusters like Elemental (PG) and The Greatest Showman (PG) on the big screen, while

A free fireworks display which was put back a week due to flooding will be lighting up the skies above a park in Lynn this evening.Fawkes in the Walks was called off last week after heavy rain made The Walks unsafe.Organisers West Norfolk Council confirmed earlier today that the popular fireworks display is set to go ahead tonight, with conditions better than they were last week.Fawkes in the Walks. Photos:

Police carried out an “extensive search” after being called to reports of a concern for safety in Lynn yesterday evening.Officers said they received the reports – related to the Hardings Way area – just before 7pm.In the hours that followed, residents in and around Lynn reported seeing and hearing a helicopter with a searchlight flying over the area.Police carried out an “extensive search” after being called to reports of a

A Lynn councillor has written to the Government calling for it to reject an incinerator which she believes will affect deprived areas the hardest.MMV Medworth has gone through various planning stages in its bid to build the waste plant on the outskirts of nearby Wisbech, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change is believed to be weighing up whether to approve the proposals this month.West Norfolk borough councillor Alex