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Tributes have been paid to Eve Collishaw, former Lord Mayor of Norwich. - Credit: Antony Kelly Back in 2009, Eve Collishaw became the 100th Lord Mayor of Norwich – joining just a handful of the city’s previous lady mayors. Born Evelyn Jean Collishaw on April 3, 1945, in Norwich, the former city and county councillor died suddenly last month aged 76. The daughter of respected and well-known pharmacist Edward Roy Collishaw and his wife, Matilda nee Campbell Miller, Miss Collishaw attended Norwich High School for Girls from the age of 11 before undertaking a business training course in Lond...

What was I to do now? The Duke had a reputation – underserved I think – of being irascible – not suffering fools gladly. I had to sit through the rest of the briefing contemplating facing him for the first time in what I suspected would be far from a forgiving frame of mind.  When the meeting ended I went up to him, introduced myself, apologised profusely, explained I had definitely been told to meet him at Wramplingham and awaited what I thought would be an angry outburst. None came. He wasn’t pleased, but given the situation he recognised the embarrassment, put me at ease, and trea...