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Stars’ team boss likely to step aside for 2024 season

King's Lynn manager David Hoggart accepts he’s likely to step aside as the club look to rebuild for the 2024 season.Hoggart stepped into the Stars’ hot seat earlier this summer following the departure of Alex Brady, to offer them some experience and continuity at a time when their future was under threat.Owner Keith Chapman turned to Hoggart to handle team affairs at a time when he was working on other

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Under-pressure Linnets boss needs a result at Warrington

King's Lynn Town manager Mark Hughes is under mounting pressure to get a result at the scene of one of the club's greatest-ever days tomorrow.The Linnets travel to Warrington - the venue of their Super Play-off victory back in 2019 - in the National League North.Another defeat for Lynn could be unthinkable for the former Barnet and Chelmsford City midfielder following the club's disappointing exit from the FA Cup on

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Fletcher works out with Joe Joyce ahead of latest fight

Would sparring with Joe Joyce have been on Tommy Fletcher’s bingo list for 2023? Potentially.The 21-year-old Attleborough Boxing Club graduate has had a fantastic year so far, winning two fights to take his professional record to 5-0, but he prepares to take the ‘biggest step’ in his career to date this weekend‘The Norfolk Nightmare’ will take to the ring inside the OVO Wembley Arena tomorrow, to fight Alberto Tapia in

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Winners of the Lynn News Cute Kids competition are revealed

After hundreds of votes have been cast, the Lynn News is delighted to reveal the winners of our Cute Kids competition.Launched last month, readers have had their say and the youngsters who have placed first, second and third can now be announced.Dozens of parents and guardians took their children along to Wilko over a week in August to have their photos taken, before they appeared in the Lynn News for

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‘If she lived in a field, cows would ask to move’: Man subjected to three years of anti-social behaviour

A frustrated man has called for action from his housing association after being made the target of 18 “attacks” at his home.Lynn resident Michael Linskey, 65, claims he has been the victim of ongoing anti-social behaviour at his Centre Point property for three years – and says one woman is behind the majority of it.This has reportedly involved his door being “pelted with all sorts of missiles” including carrots, potatoes

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Historic restaurant and hotel up for sale for £1.6m

One of Lynn’s landmark restaurant-hotels has been put on the market and is available to buy.The Bank House in King’s Staithe Square is up for grabs for a cool £1.6million after owners Jeannette and Anthony Goodrich decided to call an end to their time running it.The couple also own the Rose & Crown in Snettisham and bought the Bank House in 2008.Bank House Hotel, King's LynnJeannette said: “We had been

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Dan’s the man for high-flying Weeting Saxon

Weeting Saxon are blitzing everything before them in Division Two of the Solar Shed North West Norfolk League during the opening weeks of the campaign.An 8-1 victory at Gayton United A made it 31 goals scored in their opening three games of the new season.Dan Murphy (4), James Langley, Paul Carr, Rhys Collins and Connor Sheppard all found the back of the net in their latest win with Murphy's personal

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Bank staff break a sweat for charity

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

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Scientist to walk in mask and snorkel to highlight threat of climate change and rising sea levels

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

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Council looks to make more properties available for rent at 226-home development

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

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