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A transit van driver was smoking a cannabis joint just before he was pulled over by police.Christopher Brown, 33, of Metcalf Avenue in South Lynn, appeared at the town’s magistrates court where he admitted driving above the specified drug limit and driving while uninsured.Prosecutor Lesla Small explained that officers were carrying out a traffic offences operation on March 23 in relation to works vehicles.Brown was pulled over on Main Road

A newlywed couple decided to take their wedding celebrations to Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital so the bride’s brother, who is critically ill with a life-threatening condition, could see his sister in her wedding dress.Keleigh Rowell received a devastating call last Thursday evening – just two days before her wedding – telling her she needed to say goodbye to her brother Lee Fenn who has a serious heart condition.Initially, Keleigh wanted

A drug-driver got behind the wheel with just a provisional licence while he had a heavily pregnant passenger in the car.Tristen Whittaker, 24, of Methuen Avenue in Gaywood, appeared at Lynn’s Magistrates Court on Thursday where he admitted driving above the specified drug limit as well as using a red Ford Focus without any insurance.He also pleaded guilty to driving without a full licence and having cannabis on him.Whittaker had

A new Aldi store could be coming to Lynn under the supermarket’s plans to expand across the country.Residents already benefit from the existing store at Queen Mary Road in Gaywood, but could soon have another to choose from.Aldi bosses are investing £1.4billion over the next two years to increase their number of locations, having opened their 1,000th UK store earlier this month.The existing Aldi store on Queen Mary Road, Gaywood.

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital following a crash on a town roundabout which has resulted in gridlocked traffic.Drivers are suffering from lengthy delays along the A149 and A1076 on the outskirts of Lynn following the collision on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital roundabout.Police were called to the incident at 2.33pm this afternoon, with a car and motorbike involved in the crash.The crash occurred at the QEH Roundabout on the

The best of the borough’s businesses are set to be celebrated once more, as we launch the 2024 King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Mayor’s Business Awards.The glittering black-tie evening is booked for Friday, March 1, at its traditional venue of the Alive Corn Exchange in Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place.The headline sponsor of the Business Awards is the Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, and the event is organised

A heartbroken sister and daughter has launched a petition to change the criminal justice system after the drug-driver who killed her family was “let off” with less than a decade behind bars.Summer Mace’s world was turned upside down in January this year when Lynn man Aurelijus Cielevicius ploughed into her family’s car on the A47 at North Runcton, killing them on the spot.Cielevicius was speeding at 96mph when he attempted

A night shelter in Lynn could have its provision extended with year-round, 24/7 accommodation for homeless people.King’s Lynn Night Shelter, based at St John’s House on Blackfriars Road, has submitted plans to West Norfolk Council to change the building’s use from a winter night shelter, with no proposed development or works required.In a document on the council’s planning portal, the shelter’s co-ordinator Lucy McKitterick said that the trustees “hope that