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Biking baker Bob Wright delivers bread to North Walsham War Memorial Hospital. - Credit: Bob's Bread Bakery A "real bread" baker has urged people to support north Norfolk's many natural bakeries during Real Bread Week. Bob Wright who runs Bob's Bread Bakery in North Walsham has said people should give fresh bread a try during the week which runs from February 20 to February 28. Real bread contains no additives and is made with flour, water, salt and sometimes also yeast. It is also baked for a significant period of time to allow the flavour to develop. It has been said to be a beneficial pa...

Published: 5:30 AM February 9, 2021    David Bill, from Norfolk Orbital Railway, has appealed for donations so a crucial section of land can be bought for the project. - Credit: Archant A group trying to bring trains back to Holt and Fakenham town centres has launched a push to raise the final £5,000 of £100,000 needed for part of the route. The Melton Constable Trust wants to buy a 180m section of former railway land between High Kelling and Holt, a crucial step in creating a corridor between the North Norfolk Railway railhead and the town centre. The proposed route of the Norfolk Orbi...

Les and wife Elsie on their wedding day. - Credit: Heather Bowes Tributes have been paid to a "proper Norfolk countryman" who died aged 95. Les Kinsley, from Briston, died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on December 4 2020. A farm worker all his life, Mr Kinsley started work on the family farm in the village at the age of 13 scaring crows with a football rattle. After marrying Elsie, who also worked on the farm, Mr Kinsley later moved to Melton Constable where he met neighbour Heather Bowes, who helped him to achieve local fame by putting his fascinating stories into a monthly...

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...