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Who can take the Best Small Business crown?

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, said: “This year’s finalists all had some great qualities whichRead More

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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 can confirm the wait was worth it.Still decked out inRead More

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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 in, yet this is such an important part of theirRead More

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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 time after their eviction. In October a new series ofRead More

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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 the best pop dance recording category for her album PadamRead More

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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 to use his birthday to shine the spotlight on foodRead More

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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, but aired on TV in 2005. Davies said of theRead More

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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 Sheffield Crown Court for their roles in what is thoughtRead More

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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 secrets about the area’s history. These have subsequently been publishedRead More

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