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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

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

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

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

A Lynn man has been ordered to pay £1 back for his role in an organised crime group which made money through fake online sales.And the group as a whole will repay nearly £380,000 after the scams.Aleksandrs Lisens, 36, Aleksejs Fedins, 38, and Vadims Kuzmins, 36, who ran the group in Wisbech, opened false bank accounts and took control of the accounts of vulnerable people in Latvia.Aleksejs Fedins, from Wisbech,

In his weekly column, MP James Wild discusses the King’s Lynn Town Deal Board and the £25million agreed with the government...Today King’s Lynn Town Deal Board holds it latest meeting to review progress on the projects to be delivered as part of the £25million deal agreed with the government. These exciting projects will boost skills, enhance our cultural heritage and opportunities in the creative sector at St George’s Guildhall, provide

In his weekly Bar Man column, Jeff Hoyle discusses Heritage Open Day...Many years ago, when I used to play Dungeons and Dragons, there was a fashion for obscure multi-class characters such as warrior/cleric and sorcerer/thief. You never came across ninja/Morris dancers though, and after wandering around town on Heritage Day I know why.The sound of bells was everywhere. It might be the green-faced side that seemed to take their inspiration

County Hall has been accused of neglect after a landmark building fell into disrepair.Buckets were put around Carnegie Library in Lynn last week to collect leaking rainwater and evidence of damp has also been found.It has left councillor Alexandra Kemp angered at what she believes is evidence of Norfolk County Council (NCC) failing in its duty to maintain the town’s heritage.County Hall has been accused of neglect after a landmark

Staff at Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital are prioritising life-saving care over the coming days amid major industry strikes – with many appointments in danger of being cancelled.Senior hospital consultants began a two-day walk-out yesterday at 7am, and remain absent today. They have now been joined by junior doctors, who began striking at 7am this morning and will not return until Saturday.This comes after the British Medical Association announced the upheaval,