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Complaints after ‘preachers’ in town centre seen promoting anti-LGBTQ+ messages

Police have received complaints regarding two ‘preachers’ in Lynn town centre, who were today seen promoting anti-LGBTQ+ messages.Most Wednesdays, members of a religious group who reportedly travel from Peterborough hand out leaflets and use a loud hailer to spread their religious beliefs.Today, they were seen wearing sandwich boards, one of which read “God opposes the proud James 4:6” with a picture of the rainbow flag, used to represent members of

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Sport

Gray makes it back-to-back tons as Fakenham win thriller

As the saying goes, you wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once - just like Fakenham Cricket Club's last two games in the Norfolk Alliance.After their thrilling one-wicket win over Norwich the previous week, Fakenham repeated the feat against Garbolidsham at the weekend with Stephen Gray also making it back-to-back centuries.On a sunny afternoon at Highfield Lawn, Garboldisham won the toss and decided to bat.Fakenham

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Sailing club plays host to Topper Championships

Snettisham Beach Sailing Club hosted the International Topper Class (ITCA) Topper Class Eastern Area Championships 2023.Fifteen local sailors, 14 from Snettisham Beach and another from Brancaster Staithe, were among the 33 strong fleet, sailing either 4.2m2 sails or 5.3m2 depending on their weight.The club also held a coached intro-to-racing weekend alongside the Championship event where a further eight sailors were coached by home-grown race coach Eva Miller and her her

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Main town route to close for two evenings for roadworks

A main route through Lynn will be shut for two consecutive evenings next month while roadworks are carried out to preserve the surface for longer.The A148 London Road will be closed and parking will be suspended on Monday and Tuesday, July 3 and 4, between 7pm and midnight.The road will be shut just south of Blackfriars Street to the Southgate Street junction, while a “road rejuvenator” is sprayed onto the

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Fitness programme for cancer patients receives extended funding

A hospital’s fitness programme for cancer patients has been given extra funding so it can continue helping them for another year.The pilot scheme for patients living with and beyond cancer at Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), in partnership with Alive West Norfolk, has been improving health and wellness as well as confidence in its participants.The eight-week programme has been running since April 2022 at the hospital’s Cancer Wellbeing and Support

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Community choir’s summer concert supports town’s night shelter

A community choir has held a summer concert with a raffle and refreshments in aid of Lynn Night Shelter.Lynn Community Choir’s concert, held on Saturday, filled St Nicholas Chapel with music from “popular basics” to “summertime show stoppers”, with officials from the night shelter saying one of the evening’s highlights was Bob Dylan’s ‘Forever Young’.Music director Charlotte Sinassi-Hill, pianist David Hill and the choir impressed the audience members with their

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National News

Eyes of the world on Wests support for Ukraine recovery says Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western leaders to help rebuild his war-torn country, as he hailed the reconstruction project as a crucial part of its fight for freedom. He addressed the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London via video-link on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reiterated their support for the country. “The eyes of the world are looking at us and whether

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Pickering snubs Stars to rejoin league rivals Sheffield

King's Lynn have been snubbed by former skipper Josh Pickering, who has controversially agreed a deal to return Sports Insure Premiership rivals Sheffield.Pickering, who has endured an injury-hit season so far, was taken out of the MacInnes Stars’ team declaration as part of the changes which saw Artem Laguta and Kye Thomson join the club.However, that move was not as a 28-day injury replacement, as a one-to-seven featuring both Laguta

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Father who became homeless describes Windrush experience as worse than hell

A father who ended up homeless because he could not prove his right to work in the UK has described his lengthy experience with the Windrush compensation scheme as “worse than hell”. Fitzroy Maynard said he had been unable to get work for around a decade after losing his job as a residential caretaker in 2007. Having come from Antigua as a child in 1980 and later worked in the

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Six fire crews battled blaze for nearly four hours

Firefighters spent nearly four hours battling a town blaze last night.A commercial building fire took hold at Poplar Avenue in the Saddlebow area of Lynn, with Norfolk Fire and Rescue being called at 10.26pm.Appliances were sent from Lynn, Sandringham, Hunstanton, Fakenham, Downham and Terrington St Clement, and crews wore breathing apparatus while fighting the flames.Crews battled the blaze at Poplar Avenue into the early hours of the morning. Picture: iStockThey

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