Month: March 2024

A mother punched a community centre staff member after they told her children to keep the noise down. Zoe Leake, 31, of Generals Walk in Fairstead, appeared at Lynn’s Magistrates’ Court on Thursday where she admitted to the offence of assault by beatin…

Cambridgeshire County Council is to host the High-Intensity Users (HIU) team on behalf of the Integrated Care Board (ICB). High-intensity users, in this context, are people who frequently present themselves at hospital Accident and Emergency department…

Here we meet some of the artists behind the giraffe sculptures on the fabulous Cambridge Standing Tall art trail, which runs in the city from 21 March until 2 June. From hundreds of submissions, just 31 local and national artists designs made it throug…

In our weekly All Our Yesterdays feature, we look back at different sporting events reported over the years in the Lynn News… March 2000: East Lynn proved unbeatable as they won the Park High School invitational indoor five-a-side football competition …

Sixteen Fenland businesses were awarded £5,000 each after successfully applying for a Rural England Prosperity Fund grant. Business expansion, diversification and financial and environmental sustainability projects were among those supported in the fir…

Rose Lodge in Wisbech will be opening its doors to the community on April 27. Guests will be able to enjoy homemade cakes prepared by the home’s head chef and will have the chance to meet the team and take a tour of the home. Megan Jones, general manag…

A recently-elected Chatteris councillor has kickstarted his work by starting a Speedwatch campaign. British Democrat Ken Perrin said that he had received a large number of complaints of drivers carrying out wheelies and doughnuts at the junction of Sta…

Firefighters tackled a house blaze in Chatteris on Wednesday. A crew from the town were called to Beaufort Drive at 12.02pm along with the north roaming fire engine. They arrived to find a fire in the kitchen of a house. Wearing breathing apparatus, th…

In his weekly Turnstone column, Hunstanton writer John Maiden shares winter memories on the town’s former boating lake… A few days ago I was walking along the road that runs between the back gardens of cottages in Seagate Road and what used to be Hunst…

In his weekly column, North West Norfolk MP James Wild reassures pensioners that the “Government has their back”… It is encouraging that latest figures show inflation falling again, opening up prospects of interest rate cuts, while the economy grew i…