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Here are the Lynn News letters from Friday, June 16, 2023...Those taking industrial action need our supportWe would be foolish to accept the nonsense that David Fleming writes concerning rail workers striking for 'political reasons'.Neither rail workers (or anybody else) ever strikes for any other reason that they want justice. I can only surmise that Mr Fleming himself has never been in a situation where he has not had a

A former carer “dishonestly abused her posistion” when she ordered more than £6,000 worth of items on Amazon using a patient’s bank details.Gemma Isbell, 34, of Hill Road, Ingoldisthorpe admitted to the offence of fraud by abuse of posistion at Lynn’s Magistrates’ Court on Thursday – where she avoided going to prison.Crown prosecutor Abdul Khan said that between the dates of October 2021 to October 2022, Isbell was using the

A drink driver was caught with a bottle of vodka on the driver seat but denied consuming any.At Lynn’s Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, Romans Grisins, 38, of Five Elms, Fairstead, admitted to driving above the specified alcohol limit.Prosecutor Abdul Khan said that police pulled Grisins over on Loke Road as part of a routine stop.Grisins was caught drink driving on Loke Road in Lynn. Picture: iStockOfficers found an open bottle

A set of traffic lights which experienced outages at a busy carriageway have been fixed.A three-car crash at occurred at Lynn’s Hardwick industrial estate last Sunday while a number of signals were out of action.This prompted Rick Morrish, the leader of North Runcton Parish Council - which has the Hardwick area in its boundaries - to voice concerns about the potential for more collisions.The traffic lights at the Hardwick industrial

• Memory Lane Schools, Friday, June 16:Pupils from the King Edward VII School (KES) cluster of primary schools in Lynn are pictured at Eastgate Primary School in June 2013 for the launch of the first ‘Scotty’s Day’ which was to be held on July 10.The aim was for businesses and schools to help Scotty’s Little Soldiers mark the fourth anniversary of Corporal Lee Scott’s death in Afghanistan by celebrating the

A “light-hearted” study based off of bakery locations has classed Lynn as a northern town.But the scholars behind it admit their model is flawed, with the most southerly points of Cornwall also put in the same bracket.Academics at the Sheffield Hallam University have attempted to define the north-south divide in England based on how many Greggs and Pret a Manger stores certain areas have.The Greggs bakery on High Street in