A major revamp of an historic Dereham arts venue is under way and on Tuesday councillors donned hard hats and steel toecap boots to see their long-held vision at last becoming a reality.

26 August 2010 07:00

Dereham's Battle of Britain parade will be honoured with an evocative appearance from the iconic fighter plane which symbolised the nation's defiance 70 years ago.

02 September 2010 11:00

A retired company director said a 10-year legal battle to delete a right of way from his land has cost him £20,000 - and could have caused his recent stroke.

02 September 2010 09:20

A 'substantial' sum of cash was stolen from a Fakenham pub manager when he was robbed in his car. Steve Lowe, manager of The Hungry Horse on Greenway Lane, was driving a silver Toyota Rav4 towards Little Snoring when a white transit-sized van pulled up and created an obstruction in the road, forcing him to stop.

31 August 2010 11:11

A bumper crowd is expected on bank holiday Monday as a team from the Light Dragoons takes on Dereham cricketers in a match to boost funds for two Army charities.

31 August 2010 10:57

Around 20 homes in Shipdham, near Dereham, are without power this morning due to a fault on a low voltage underground cable. Power was interrupted to EDF Energy customers in Eastgate and Dereham Road at around 5.

30 August 2010 21:55

A windsurfer was rescued at Wells on bank holiday Monday after his rig broke in high winds. The man, in his 40s and from the King's Lynn area, was one of about 30 windsurfers in the harbour taking advantage of blustery conditions, which reached 45-50mph.

29 August 2010 17:52

Police are investigating a suspected arson attack which severely damaged three lorries, three vans and two cars at a Dereham highways depot.

27 August 2010 17:32

One Norfolk MP took the task of getting involved with the grass roots of local issues - quite literally - this week. Keith Simpson, MP for Broadland, jumped into a JCB digger to carry out some ground breaking, and officially start work on building Fakenham's new £5 million community healthcare campus on Monday.

25 August 2010 17:00

The man who co-wrote the Cockney classic “My Old Man's a Dustman” has died in Walsingham at the age of 84. Peter Buchanan, whose enduring comic creation reached number one in the charts in 1960, died at his home on August 15.

25 August 2010 06:06

A high-flying Norfolk solicitor has packed away his pinstriped suit after a 30-year legal career - to take up cleaning ovens for a living instead.