Published:
3:42 PM April 28, 2021
Updated:
6:17 PM April 28, 2021
Pupils at Diss Primary Academy, which is part of the St Benet’s Multi Academy Trust.
- Credit: St Benet’s MAT
Norfolk schools that are not part of academy trusts will be offered a period of “try before you buy” in an effort to entice more of them to leave council control, the education secretary has said.
In a speech to the Confederation of School Trusts virtual conference, Gavin Williamson said all schools should join academy chains in a bid to replace the current pick and mix system with a single model school system.
Same goes for most surrounding villages clearly putting on too much weight … Swanton Morley, Scarning, Beetley, Gressenhall and Yaxham for starters. I can’t include Toftwood on any list as it has long been stripped of any individuality and forced to be part of straggling Dereham.
Environmental and social cohesion damage aside, a vast majority of these new “desirable dwellings” go to anyone other than to local people anxious to stay in the area where parents and grandparents found chances to put down roots. “Affordable housing” is now a laughable line simply added to attract favourable votes in council chambers.
Swaffham Community Hospital, April 26, 10.30am-1.30pm;
Wells Community Hospital, April 28, 10.30am-2.30pm;
Great Yarmouth Market Place, April 29, noon-2pm;
Bawdeswell Garden Centre, April 30, 11am-1pm.
Gina Dormer, Vision Norfolk chief executive, said: Our aim is to increasingly provide our services out in the community, close to where people live and work, and this initiative is part of our efforts to achieve this.
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Everyone living in IP22 postcode is being “strongly encouraged” to take a coronavirus test.
- Credit: PA
People in Diss and Roydon are being “strongly encouraged” to take a coronavirus test to suppress the spread of a Covid-19 variant.
Surge testing is being deployed within parts of the IP22 postcode where the Covid-19 variant first identified in South Africa has been found.
Everyone living in IP22 postcode is being “strongly encouraged” to take a coronavirus test.
- Credit: Andrew Milligan/PA
Tests of all adults in Diss and Roydon will begin on Friday.
Dr Louise Smith, Norfolk County Council s director of public health said, in a tweet last night: This is a precaution to find South African variant virus. Overall numbers in area are going down. No need for people to worry.