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A team at a town bank have been breaking a sweat to raise money for the charity Teenage Cancer Trust.Staff at NatWest in Lynn aimed to cycle 1,800 miles on an exercise bike in order to raise money for the charity last week.The bank was also raising money through a tombola, raffles and games such as ‘guess the number of sweets in a jar’.Barnaby Macleod (left) Cerys Brodowski (centre) Lisa

A scientist from West Norfolk is set to walk across the county dressed in a mask and snorkel almost entirely on land that is threatened by sea level rise.Dr Charlie Gardner, from Ashwicken, who is a senior lecturer at The University of Kent and a climate activist, will trek for 15 days from Cambridge, via Lynn and the coast, to Norwich, in an attempt to highlight the dangers of climate

More homes at a major development could be made available for rent under West Norfolk Council plans.Construction work for 226 new properties off Parkway in Gaywood kicked off at the beginning of the summer. The plans had been approved at a full borough council meeting in January, with contracts signed off in July.The homes are being built in phases by developer Lovell, and it is anticipated that the whole development

A Lynn man has been ordered to pay £1 back for his role in an organised crime group which made money through fake online sales.And the group as a whole will repay nearly £380,000 after the scams.Aleksandrs Lisens, 36, Aleksejs Fedins, 38, and Vadims Kuzmins, 36, who ran the group in Wisbech, opened false bank accounts and took control of the accounts of vulnerable people in Latvia.Aleksejs Fedins, from Wisbech,

In his weekly column, MP James Wild discusses the King’s Lynn Town Deal Board and the £25million agreed with the government...Today King’s Lynn Town Deal Board holds it latest meeting to review progress on the projects to be delivered as part of the £25million deal agreed with the government. These exciting projects will boost skills, enhance our cultural heritage and opportunities in the creative sector at St George’s Guildhall, provide

In his weekly Bar Man column, Jeff Hoyle discusses Heritage Open Day...Many years ago, when I used to play Dungeons and Dragons, there was a fashion for obscure multi-class characters such as warrior/cleric and sorcerer/thief. You never came across ninja/Morris dancers though, and after wandering around town on Heritage Day I know why.The sound of bells was everywhere. It might be the green-faced side that seemed to take their inspiration