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An automotive workshop and training facility held an awards evening to give parents, students and staff a chance to celebrate their successes of last year.Open Road West Norfolk was established in 2009 to help students who struggle with a traditional classroom setting.The facility's main aim is to reduce the number of school exclusions in West Norfolk, working in partnership with the College of West Anglia to provide English and maths

Work to improve the energy efficiency of nearly 70 homes in Lynn has kicked off.Housing provider Longhurst Group secured £6.3million of funding through the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) to enhance the energy performance of some of its properties.A total of 581 homes have been identified for energy efficiency improvement works – including 68 throughout the Lynn area.Stephen Butland with Longhurst staff at his Gayton home. Picture: Longhurst GroupLonghurst

Staff at Lynn’s hospital will wear body cameras from next week in a bid to crack down on abusive behaviour.Starting next Monday (October 2), security personnel at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital will make use of the cameras as part of a scheme which NHS bosses hope will reduce anti-social behaviour in the building.Since January this year, there have been 163 reported incidents of such behaviour at the QEH – and

Firefighters were called to a blaze close to a riverside in Lynn yesterday evening.The Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service attended a fire in the open off Hardings Way, close to Harding’s Pits, after receiving a call at 5.32pm on Monday.Smoke could be seen rising from the area around the scene, with crews using hose reel jets and hand appliances to extinguish the flames after one appliance was sent.One appliance was

A 22-year-old has been arrested following a crash at the Hardwick roundabout in Lynn over the weekend.Police were called to the scene at 7.50pm on Saturday after a two-vehicle collision. The road was closed while emergency services, including firefighters and paramedics, attended the scene.Nathan Roberts, of Burch Close in Lynn, has subsequently been charged with three offences – taking a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent, driving while disqualified and

A man refused leave the area outside a court building despite being ordered to by police following a separate incident.Paul Baptist, 53, of London Road in Lynn, appeared at the town’s magistrates’ court on Thursday charged with failing to comply with a police direction excluding him from an area.He pleaded guilty to the offence, which he committed on August 17 outside the court building on College Lane itself. Prosecutor Emma

A father is cycling more than 400 miles to support the children’s ward that looked after his daughter, after she was admitted with severe chickenpox and had to spend her eighth birthday away from home.Alex Petney-Smith, 37, from Fakenham, is a keen cyclist who has decided to take on the task of pedalling 435 miles for the children’s ward at Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.His journey will begin on Friday, September

A foster agency will be holding a drop-in session on a monthly basis for people to go along to.The Foster Care Co-operative is a non-profit agency supporting local foster carers across the country including West Norfolk.They will be holding drop-in sessions every second Tuesday of each month at The Place in Lynn's Vancouver Quarter from 10am until 4pm.Sonya, Caroline, and Helen, the team of social workers who are based in

A heated argument at a town address resulted in a man receiving a “pummeling”, a car being damaged and two culprits being fined.Robert Oliver, 29, of Columbia Way in Lynn, appeared at the town’s magistrates’ court on Thursday charged with criminal damage and with using threatening or abusive words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence.Also in court was 40-year-old Ricky Green, not of the