Published:
12:30 PM January 23, 2021
Updated:
1:22 PM January 23, 2021
A delighted Sir Michael Caine with the blue plaque he unveiled outside the school he attended as a wartime evacuee in North Runcton.
- Credit: John Hocknell
Pablo Fanque s blue plaque
- Credit: Antony Kelly
The Beatles, Norwich
On May 17, 1963 Beatlemania came to Norwich when the Fab Four played their one and only concert in the city. The venue was the Grosvenor Rooms in Prince of Wales Road and the queue of eager fans stretched back to the ABC Cinema. To mark the show, the EDP and Norwich School of Art and Design (now Norwich University of the Arts) put up a blue plaque on Grosvenor House as part of a series highlighting surprising aspects of the county s cultural heritage. Another of the city s blue plaques has a Beatles link too. At John Lewis on All Saints Green there s a Discover Norwich blue plaque dedicated to Pablo Fanque. Real name William Darby, he was the first black British circus prop
Published:
2:08 PM January 23, 2021
Updated:
2:17 PM January 23, 2021
Steve Fulcher (second left) pictured with his three children Paige, Holly and Christopher and wife Dawn at Holly s wedding. 11 months before his cancer diagnosis.
- Credit: Steve Fulcher
A North Norfolk greengrocer, who is now living cancer free two years after his diagnosis, has praised the development of a £4.85m cancer centre for those living in the area.
Steve Fulcher, from Stalham, has run Dawn Fresh Greengrocers in Sheringham for 25 years, and was diagnosed with bowel cancer in August 2018.
The father of three s cancer had spread to his liver, collar bone and lymph nodes and due to no facilities in north Norfolk, he travelled to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for treatment, a 90-minute round trip if coming from his shop.
Biker Nathan Wyer, who broke both ankles in a crash in Norwich
- Credit: Nathan Wyer
A motorcyclist has urged people to be vigilant on the roads after a head-on crash with a car left him in hospital with two broken ankles.
On Wednesday, father-of-three Nathan Wyer was travelling home from work on his motorbike when he was involved in a crash with a silver Audi A3 after leaving the Esso garage on Mile Cross Lane in Norwich.
While travelling at less than 30mph at the time, Mr Wyer was thrown from his motorbike, landing hard and breaking both of his ankles.