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Published: 6:30 AM January 25, 2021    Mike Downes from the Rotary Club of Aylsham is co-ordinating an appeal for laptops and tablets for children. - Credit: Archant Alongside this newspaper's Every Child Online campaign, many others are pitching in with schemes to ensure every child has access to online learning. An estimated 6,000 in the county are currently without a digital device to complete online learning, with 1,000 families believed to have no way at all to connect to the internet. Mike Downes of Aylsham Rotary Club, who is also vice chair of Aylsham Learning Federation, has been...

Published: 9:07 AM January 19, 2021    A man walks past a poster in the window of a Primark shop in the final week of a four week national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. - Credit: PA Almost half of all deaths between March and December last year in Norfolk's worst hit neighbourhoods were from coronavirus.  ONS data shows the virus was responsible for 802 deaths in the region – 8pc of the 10,442 deaths recorded. The highest Covid death toll came in Swaffham, where 26 people died. In all, 123 people in the town died during the same period, meaning the virus was responsible fo...

Published: 9:07 AM January 19, 2021    A man walks past a poster in the window of a Primark shop in the final week of a four week national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. - Credit: PA Almost half of all deaths between March and December last year in Norfolk's worst hit neighbourhoods were from coronavirus.  ONS data shows the virus was responsible for 802 deaths in the region – 8pc of the 10,442 deaths recorded. The highest Covid death toll came in Swaffham, where 26 people died. In all, 123 people in the town died during the same period, meaning the virus was responsible fo...