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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...

Jon Williamson from Norwich struggled with his addictions during lockdown - Credit: Jon Williamson One month into the first lockdown Jon Williamson stood on the edge of relapse.  The 41-year-old, from Northumberland Street in Norwich, had taken his last drink in June, going from drinking at least 60 units of alcohol a day to sobriety in nine months.  “My sister died from pancreatic cancer, ” he said. “Watching her die like that made me need to stop.”  But when the country locked down in mid-March, Jon’s routine of four to five sessions of therapy and two to three AA meetings...

Amy Goreham delivered trampoline fitness classes from her kitchen during the first lockdown - Credit: Amy Goreham Hollie Watts put on six stone in eight months after being prescribed anti-depressants by her GP. “The choice was to either get my mental health under control or not put weight on,” the 26-year old said. “I had to get my head sorted first.”  The mum-of-three from Walsoken, near Wisbech, joined a gym in February last year, but it was closed by lockdown a few weeks later. Undeterred, she decided to act. For inspiration, she put pictures of how she used to look all over h...

Ms Jefferson is now on a waiting list and although she has been prescribed antidepressants, she says it has been a struggle waiting so long to start treatment.  “My life is on hold,” she said. “We all know about the physical side of things and how it affects people financially in terms of putting food on the table, and that’s important. But mental health is also important, and sometimes it feels like I’m being ignored.”  NHS data from last year reveals 75pc more people from poorer areas of Norfolk and Waveney contacted NHS mental health services compared to people from richer...

Ideas, Inventions And Innovations New View of Nature’s Oldest Light Suggest Universe Is 13.77 Billion Years Old From an observatory high above Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken a new look at the oldest light in the universe. Their observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, suggest that the universe is 13.77 billion years old – give or take 40 million years. A Cornell researcher co-authored one of two papers about the findings, which add a fresh twist to an ongoing debate in the astrophysics community. The new estimate, using data gathered at the National Science Founda...