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Published: 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. - Credit: GYBC 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 - Credit: Great Yarmouth Borough Coun...

He said: "Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, so I think it is extremely unlikely that anything will change. "We made very clear what the position is now. If you're in Tier 4, you can only meet up, unfortunately, with your own household or support bubble. "If you are out of Tier 4, then on Christmas Day itself you can come together with others, up to three households." Asked if he could guarantee there would be no new restrictions for December 25, he added: "There is absolutely no plan to do so. So I think people should go about their Christmas as they were planning to do."

Oak Street bomb damage , April 27, 1942 Picture: Archant Library - Credit: Archant The Harmers Factory on St Andrews Street after the Second World War blitz. Dated 18th March 1943. Picture: Archant library - Credit: Archant David’s book tells of his grandfather’s year in great detail and sets the scene well with many photographs, advertisements and cuttings from our papers during 1942/3. Arthur Cleveland received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital in London qualifying in 1897. He married Evelyn Jackson in 1900 and moved to Norwich two years later. They had a son John (1902-1971) wh...

Published: 8:40 PM December 21, 2020    Updated: 8:11 AM December 22, 2020 The plans for Anglia Square, which will now be subject to a planning inquiry. Photo: Weston Homes - Credit: Weston Homes The long-running saga of a proposed £271m redevelopment of Anglia Square has taken another twist, with its fate set to be sealed once and for all in a High Court battle next year. Last month, controversial plans to demolish the shopping centre and gentrify the area were turned down by Robert Jenirck, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government. The multi-million-pound pro...

Ketts Castle Villa and Garden, Norwich, Norfolk – Grade II listed Built in 1957, the little-altered villa is believed to have been designed by, and built for, painter John Berney Ladbrooke. He was an artist in the Norwich school of painting, a British landscape movement founded in 1803 by a small group of self-taught, working class artists based around Norwich, including his father, Robert Ladbrooke. The school’s work included landscapes and scenes of rural life, which some commentators have described as a forerunner to both French Impressionism and also to the Newlyn School of Paintin...