Latest Fakenham and Wells news headlines
Sale of Peacocks to see Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Dereham and Bury St Edmunds shops to close
More than 80 jobs are to go across Norfolk and Suffolk as a deal was struck to sell a number of Peacocks shops to the Edinburgh Woollen Mill today.
Fakenham-based haulage firm Jack Richards is on road to recovery
The managing director of a Fakenham based and founded haulage firm hit by the recession said he believed it is well placed to pick up business as the economy recovers.
Battle to overturn car parking hike across north Norfolk lost - as council also votes not to fund Weybourne cable appeal
A last ditch effort from campaigners to get controversial hikes to parking charges across north Norfolk thrown out has been lost after finance chiefs rubber stamped their budget.
Another iron in the fire for the master craftsman of Fransham
They say that what goes around comes around.
Norfolk bus fare petition delivered to 10 Downing Street
A “significant step” has been made in a campaign to convince the government to plug a multi-million pound funding gap in Norfolk caused by concessionary bus fares, council leaders said after presenting a 23,500-signature petition at Downing Street.
- Norfolk Police Authority decides to invest in policing in the county by increasing council tax precept by 3pc
- Is headless porpoise washed up at Brancaster Beach further proof of killer whales off the North Norfolk coast?
- Game machine industry association BACTA’s plea to Norwich Treasury minister
- Fakenham Laundry lands contract for Olympic Torch Relay
- Demolition work starts on the former Gray’s Arcade on Wells Quay
- Hikes to car parking fees in Cromer, Sheringham, Wells, Holt, North Walsham and Fakenham branded a ‘stealth tax’
- Norfolk community groups urged to apply for share of unclaimed £450,000
- Winners of the toss in the great Gressenhall Shrove Saturday stakes
- Life’s far from grim up Norse for the Dereham pantomime camel
- Breezy launch for Dereham’s big festival of arts, music and culture
- Mileham community shop to remain open
- Business minister Norman Lamb “level playing field” pledge to small firms over public sector contracts
- Bronze Age burial site at Fiddler’s Hill transferred to Norfolk Archaeological Trust
- The truth behind Norfolk’s child poverty figures
- Support floods in for popular Fakenham tattooist who is recovering from a brutal assault
- New JD Wetherspoon pub to open in the centre of Fakenham
- Memorial for Lord Somerleyton attended by representative of the Queen
- North Norfolk Lib Dems oppose controversial parking plans - and put forward solution for free spaces in North Walsham and Fakenham
- Electricity to be cut off in large parts of Briston and Melton Constable for up to nine hours tomorrow as UK Power Networks carry out upgrades
- PICTURE GALLERY: About 1,000 pictures of East Anglian life in the 19th century taken by renowned Norfolk photographer Herbert T Cave to go on sale in Diss on Friday
- Roof fire at a home in Thursford
- Norfolk County Council fined £80,000 for sending sensitive information to the wrong address
- WEATHER UPDATE: Warning of treacherous ice in Norfolk
- WEATHER UPDATE: Spate of crashes on roads as forecasters warn ‘freezing rain’ could cause further problems in Norfolk
- Care campaigners urge Norfolk County Council to spend to save services
- New Anglia seeks share of £15m to develop up to 700 jobs in rural areas
- Future of Norfolk’s day care services facing an uncertain 12 months
- Norfolk tourism bosses predict record year due to London 2012 Olympics and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations
- Foulsham family’s gift of thanks following sad death of Lewie, aged six
- Trawler fishing off Norfolk coast issued with record fine by Royal Navy’s HMS Mersey
