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A 21-year-old shoplifter is at risk of being sent to prison after stealing headphones from a shop in Lynn.Oskar Charewicz, of Woolstencroft Avenue in Lynn, admitted to stealing the headphones worth £120 at the town’s magistrates court in a hearing on Thursday.Magistrates decided that their sentencing powers were not sufficient to punish Charewicz, who was in breach of a nine-month suspended sentence order given in April for a drug-related offence.Charewicz

Fares on all Norwich park & ride services will be even cheaper from this September, making it easier and more affordable to travel car-free into the city centre by bus. The new fares will be introduced, thanks to money that Norfolk County Council has secured from the Department for Transport (DfT) to help improve bus services across the county. From Monday 4 September, passengers will be able to travel all

An 18-year-old was described by his solicitor as a “naughty boy” after having a number of previous convictions to his name – the latest being having cannabis hidden in his sock.Brayden McShane appeared at Lynn’s Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and admitted to the offence of being in possession of a Class B drug.Prosecutor Nicola Lamb explained that on April 4, police were informed about a vehicle travelling on the A47

A retired head teacher has been elected as a county councillor, replacing the seat which was held by a former Lynn mayor until his death this year.North West Norfolk Liberal Democrats are celebrating after John Crofts was elected to represent Freebridge Lynn on Norfolk County Council today.It comes after former mayor and leader of West Norfolk Council Nick Daubney, who was voted in as county councillor representing the same ward

An organised gang who stole £70k of booze from supermarkets from a number of counties, including Norfolk, have been jailed.The brazen thieves often targeted champagne as they stole more than £70,000 worth of alcohol from numerous supermarkets, including in Lynn.Valeriu Cobzarencu, Andrei Stefan, Vincentiu Gheorghe, Ionut-Razvan Gheorghe and Alin Chica worked together to steal from stores in London, Kent, Essex and Norfolk.Valeriu Cobzarencu received a one-year and eight months sentence

The owners of a burger bar in Lynn’s town centre may have to give up their family business of 37 years after being told to leave the spot they have occupied for decades.Chloe’s Burger Bar, near the old Argos building, has been told by West Norfolk Council that it has to vacate its spot on Baxter’s Plain by next April to make way for a planned Multi-User Community Hub on

More than 100 housing association homes in West Norfolk are out of use, with conditions described as “worse than Dickensian” by a borough councillor.Before she resigned from West Norfolk Council’s cabinet, Alex Kemp, who was responsible for housing, wrote in her final report that some of the homes were “unfit for human habitation”.“Housing conditions in the borough are, for many residents, worse than Dickensian,” she said.More than 100 housing association

Relatives of former Lynn resident and Love Island winner Jess Harding have said she was born to be “in the limelight” after she returned home this week.After eight weeks of appearing on national TV while in the Spanish sun, Jess Harding, who grew up in Lynn, was this week crowned winner of the latest series of Love Island.Jess, 22, and her new boyfriend Sammy Root, also 22, were revealed to