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I first wrote about Paddy, now aged 53, in 1998 when we told the story of the skids kids across the city and county. There were dozens of teams in Norfolk…and they were among the best in the land. One of the skid skids was  Paddy who told me at the time: “They were the best years of my life.” And he added: “It left such a huge mark on my life and I hope I left a mark on cycle speedway. I certainly had a lot of fun,” he said. Paddy was a member of the brilliant Norwich Stars and rode in two British finals – the under-18s in 1984 and the under-21s three years later.

Sleaze stories about the Downing Street flat and Boris Johnson’s character aim to protect the general regime of corruption. Mike Macnair paints the bigger picture

Chatham House ‘left’ Who stands for what and who says what - such basic information should not be treated as the private property of a select few. Derek James calls for openness After over a year of ‘political lockdown’ following Labour’s general election defeat in 2019, the election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader and the continuing witch-hunt, the Labour left now stands at something of a crossroads. The ‘official left’, in the form of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs and the left trade union officials, have largely kept their heads down, hoping perhaps for better days ahea...

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Firemen at the site where Curl's (now Debenhams) stood on April 30, 1942 - Credit: Archant It was 65 years ago when the doors finally opened on the most modern department store in East Anglia. Derek James tells the story of Curls More than 10 years after the end of the Second World War the people gathered to celebrate the re-opening of Curls in the heart of Norwich. The shop had been destroyed in the 1942 Baedeker Raids and the space it left in the city had been a popular spot for events…but times were changing. The dark days of the war were over, the country was rebuilding itself and Curl...