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A date has been announced for the highly anticipated switch-on of Lynn’s Christmas lights.A day of family activities and exciting entertainment will precede the big event, taking place on Sunday, November 26.The lights themselves will be turned on at 5pm, but not before people get the chance to enjoy some festive fun in the town centre.The Christmas light switch-on in Lynn last yearDiscover King’s Lynn will be hosting a children’s

People can have their say on plans for a new community hub in Lynn after potential visions for its exterior were revealed.Norfolk County Council is continuing with the development of plans for a Lynn Multi-Use Community Hub, which will be housed in the former Argos building on New Conduit Street.The authority has now released images of what the building could look like, and is asking residents to voice their preferences.

Rock on! Some £400 was raised for Children in Need in November 2013 when a charity gig was held at Lynn’s Howard Junior School.Some of the pupils, dressed for the occasion to support Pudsey, are pictured here with the rock covers band members.Rob Ross, of On the Level (previously known as Going Quo), said: “The concert went really well with around 150 to 170 people there – friends, family and

The family of a missing man is asking people to search their outbuildings, garages and sheds, as concern for his welfare increases.Robert McAdam, 28, from Wormegay, was last seen in Bunnett Avenue in South Lynn at 4am on Saturday, October 28.Posters have been put up by the family all over Lynn town centre, including at the railway and bus stations, and at taxi ranks.Robert McAdam was last seen on Bunnett

In his weekly The Bar Man column, Jeff Hoyle discusses surge pricing...Surge pricing. Have you heard of it? It means that prices go up when there is a greater demand. In some areas of the economy, it is common. When we used to travel regularly to see Bury FC, hotel prices around Manchester were much higher if United were at home. Look at the prices for hotels over the Christmas

There are hopes that a new business venture in Lynn’s former Debenhams store could be up and running by Christmas.Kelly Ranger, who has a pop-up market at The Place on New Conduit Street, revealed her plan to revitalise the old department store on High Street in October.She hopes to fill it with shopping and leisure attractions, offering businesses a series of self-contained units to operate from with a model similar

Bosses at Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital spent more than £900,000 to enlist a PR company’s help while campaigning for a new building.Staff and patients celebrated alongside politicians and members of the public in May this year after the Government confirmed West Norfolk would benefit from its New Hospital Programme.The team at the QEH had put together a case for its £862million rebuild as its current site has at least 4,394

Here are the letters from the Tuesday, November 14 edition of the Lynn News...Guildhall find has put town on the mapWith St George’s Guildhall and the discovery of the original floorboards that Shakespeare trod once again being featured on national TV (The One Show, November 7), I wanted to say how fantastic it has been to get Lynn and the theatre in front of the whole country and in front

More than 18,000 people attended one of the region's biggest free fireworks displays on Friday.Fawkes in the Walks is organised by the West Norfolk Council and held in The Walks park in the centre of Lynn.It was a case of better late than never as the display had been postponed from the previous Friday due to the park being waterlogged following Storm Ciarán.Fawkes in the Walks funBefore the fireworks there