‘Mummy’s playing for England’ is what Lucy Field’s daughter gets to gleefully tell her friends and family. The Harleston Magpies Ladies’ II captain has jetted off to Ireland to represent her country in the Ladies Masters Hockey Over-40s Four Nations to…
Cuddly guinea pigs helped to brighten up the day for members of Downham Market Stroke Club.
Cuddly guinea pigs helped to brighten up the day for members of Downham Market Stroke Club. The therapeutic creatures were brought along to a Wednesday session at the town’s methodist church by Diana Taylor, of Cuddly Cavies, which provides therapeutic…
Downham Market Festival’s cake cutting ceremony
Every year Downham Market celebrates its annual festival with a special cake. Dignitaries assembled in the town hall on Wednesday for the traditional cake cutting ceremony. For this year, town bakery Cream Me Up Scotty was given the brief ‘festival of …
Ray’s 35 years of duty as Downham Market Town Crier
Downham Market paid tribute to its Town Crier this week, as Ray Wales celebrated 35 years of civic duty. Ray’s sterling efforts were recognised during festival week on Wednesday, shortly before the traditional cake cutting ceremony in the town hall. Ne…
New Harding’s Pits whale structure installed at King’s Lynn nature reserve
A new landmark which reflects the history of Lynn’s whaling industry has been installed. The five metre tall diving whale has been commissioned by Harding’s Pit Community Association to replace the previous carved timber structure. The previous timber …
Saudi Aramco to offer shares worth over $10 billion
Oil giant Saudi Aramco said on Thursday it plans to sell 1.545 billion shares worth more than $10 billion in one of the biggest such offerings in recent years. In a statement posted to the Saudi stock exchange, Aramco announced a “secondary public offe…
Reader’s letter: Forget ‘experts’, make up your own minds
We are now entering a General Election during which a myriad issues will be considered before a decision is made by the people of Britain. Many of them will be related to creating the increased growth in our economy, so essential to the provision of th…
“Authorities will do what is legally required”: Karnataka Home Minister on arrest of Prajwal Revanna
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 31 (ANI): After the Janata Dal (Secular) suspended MP Prajwal Revanna was arrested in the obscene video case, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Friday that the authorities will do what is legally required…
Robert Kennedy Jr. Applauds Trump’s Crypto Commitment, Expresses Hope For Biden’s Alignment
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed his admiration for former President Donald Trump’s pro-cryptocurrency stance What Happened: Kennedy made the remarks at the Consensus 2024 conference, CoinDesk reported Thursday. “Commitment to…
After US, EU criticise first arrests under new security law and verdict in Hong Kong 47 trial, gov’t hits back
The Hong Kong government has rebutted international criticism of the city’s first arrests under a new, homegrown security law and the trial of Hong Kong’s 47 democrats, after a US government body said Thursday’s verdict showed “the Chinese Communist Pa…