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Riverside pub is nautical but nice

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

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New seating area at school in 2013

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

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Celebrity Big Brother to return to TV screens in 2024

Celebrity Big Brother will be returning to TV screens in 2024, ITV has announced. When the show airs on ITV next year a cast of famous faces will take up residence in the Big Brother house to take part in weekly nominations and challenges as cameras capture their every move. A spin-off show called Celebrity Big Brother: Late & Live will follow, where contestants will be interviewed for the first

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Female musicians including SZA and Taylor Swift dominate 2024 Grammy nominations

Female musicians including SZA, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Miley Cyrus have dominated the 2024 Grammy nominations. Other nominees include Ed Sheeran, who appears in the best pop vocal album category for Subtract, and The Rolling Stones, who recently released their album Hackney Diamonds and are nominated for best rock song for single Angry. Australian singer Kylie Minogue, who last appeared as a nominee during the 2009 awards, features in

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King to appear on cover of Big Issue ahead of 75th birthday

A portrait of the King will appear on the front page of the Big Issue next week, it has been announced. The portrait, by renowned photographer Rankin, will appear in the magazine on Monday, a day before the King’s 75th birthday. Charles writes in the magazine about the importance of finding practical ways to bridge the gap between food waste and food need. He explains that this has led him

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Russell T Davies on thrilling new Doctor Who series It was like this in 2004

Russell T Davies has said the new series of Doctor Who starring actors Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson will be “thrilling” to watch. Screenwriter and producer, Davies, 60, who has returned as showrunner, compared the upcoming series with the 2005 revival of the long-running BBC show which starred Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as his companion Rose. The series starring Eccleston and Piper was filmed in 2004,

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Six jailed over 15bn plot to smuggle cocaine into UK in frozen chicken boxes

Six members of a drugs ring which smuggled more than £1.5 billion of cocaine into the UK in boxes of frozen chicken have been jailed. The gang’s plot saw 15 tonnes of the Class A drug hidden in pallets of frozen chicken and imported from the Netherlands before being repackaged and sold to dealers, West Yorkshire Police said. On Friday, six people were given prison terms totalling 58 years at

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Work at major housing development reveals salt-making history of town marsh

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

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Film Festival starts on Thursday

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

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Here’s what you need to know ahead of Fawkes in the Walks fireworks event

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:

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