“This ensures that when a film like The Dig comes to Suffolk, we know exactly who they need to talk to.”
Meanwhile Norfolk Screen, newly-founded by managing director Claire Chapman and head of development Craig Higgins, is championing the county to local and incoming production companies. We we all know, incoming screen production reaps huge benefits for the local economy, so it s great for Suffolk and Norfolk that The Dig chose to shoot in the East of England, said Ms Higgins.
“It is no secret that Norfolk has hosted a number of notable film and TV productions – ranging from classic TV shows such as Dad’s Army to epic Hollywood blockbusters such as Atonement, Shakespeare In Love and Avengers: Age of Ultron, British feature classics like 45 Years, Yesterday and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, and most recently The Personal Life of David Copperfield.
The proposed Norwich Energy Innovation Park. Photo: Lanpro/Pro-Works
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Plans for a new business park in Wymondham with the potential to create more than 300 new jobs have been formally lodged.
In August, the Goff Group unveiled plans for what it will call the Norwich Energy Innovation Park - an industrial development of Stanfield Road, close to its existing base.
If approved, the scheme would see an 11-acre plot of land west of Stanfield Road already owned by Goff Petroleum developed to include workshops. offices and other communal working areas.
Speaking previously, William Goff said: “This development marks a significant step forward in the company’s ongoing plans to diversify the business and continue the drive towards more sustainable growth.
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4:44 PM January 7, 2021
Work has started on Great Yarmouth s new Marina Centre. Diggers are now on site and the steel frame will go up over the next few months.
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Work has started on a new leisure centre tipped as crucial to a town s economic recovery and the health of its residents.
Instead of assembling local dignitaries on Great Yarmouth s Golden Mile, a virtual ground-breaking ceremony was staged to mark the milestone - tagged a very positive way to start 2021 .
The projected view of the Marina Centre from Marine Parade
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The footage shows a camera swooping over the levelled site and images of the new Marina Centre that will spring up in its place as well as messages from Carl Smith and Trevor Wainwright, leaders of the Great Yarmouth Borough Council s main political groups, Alister Broadberry, Morgan Sindall Construction’s Eastern Counties area director, and Brandon Lewis, Great Yarmouth’s
Cheddar Creative co-owners Richard Wood and Cassie Bendall
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Small companies across Suffolk and Norfolk are being given expert advice to help them through the pandemic recession.
So far, 133 firms with a turnover of £100k-plus and five or more employees have signed up to get free peer mentoring as part of a national economic recovery effort delivered through New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
The LEP - which is offering help to 250 companies in total - is particularly keen to target social care providers and hospitality businesses with its £1,300 Peer Networks mentoring package. The firms must be at least one year old.
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10:58 AM December 29, 2020
Businesses face huge challenges in 2021 - but support is available from the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership
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A pledge has been made to support firms through an extremely challenging period next year amid the Brexit transition and ongoing coronavirus restrictions.
The pandemic caused record-breaking numbers of redundancies in the East of England in 2020, albeit a relatively low number of businesses entering liquidation.
But the pandemic did not hit all sectors of the economy equally, with some sectors such as tourism and hospitality suffering more, with greater restrictions.
C-J Green, chairwoman of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, outlined the support that the LEP would put in place for firms in the east as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to unravel.