Dereham

Traffic on A47 after lorry crashes with caravan

Police were called at around 11.25am to the A47 Dereham Bypass, Norwich bound, near the Swanton Morley turn-off.
The carriageway was blocked and traffic was at a standstill after the caravan tipped onto its side. 
The road was blocked while emergency s…

Road closed after lorry crashes into home

Structural engineers have been called to a village near Dereham after a lorry crashed into a house.The two-vehicle crash, involving a silver Toyota, happened in Shipdham and saw the lorry smash into a property in Market Street.The road was closed in bo…

Lorry crash on Dereham Road in Norwich causing delays

A crash involving a car and a lorry on a major road was causing traffic delays in Norwich earlier today. 
The collision happened at 11.25am on Dereham Road near the Sweet Briar Road roundabout. 
Police, fire and ambulance crews attended the scene and f…

Norwich road rage incident results in crash

An incident of road rage in Norwich[1] which resulted in a crash between a van and a car has sparked a police appeal for witnesses. The incident happened along Middleton’s Lane at around 3.02pm last Thursday (July 6).
The victim was travelling in a gre…

The roadworks and road closures affecting Norfolk this week

There are planned roadworks and road closures taking place this week beginning Monday, July 3. Whether your daily commute is to the office or on the school run, it can be frustrating to be held up by roadworks.
Roadworks take place in Norfolk every day…

Vintage Week coming to North Norfolk Railway in 2023

Vintage Week takes place across the North Norfolk Railway and its stations from Saturday, July 1 until Sunday, July 9. 
On July 1, historic coaches and buses will descend on Holt Station, with visitors able to travel on selected vehicles running betwee…

Mid Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust appoints new Chairman

The Mid Norfolk[1] Railway Preservation Trust has appointed Graham Watts, the trust’s current Commercial Manager, as its new Chairman.
Graham will take up his new role after the AGM in September and will then step down as the Commercial Manager.
Away f…

Foulger to join Palletforce

Foulger Transport has quit Palletways to become the seventh Kinaxia subsidiary to join Palletforce – following in the footsteps of Lambert Brothers, Panic Transport, William Kirk, N C Cammack, Maiden’s of Telford and Bay Freight.
Palletforce has also a…

A47 forced to close throughout the rest of the day

The A47 has shut to traffic heading east this afternoon (Thursday, May 11) after an incident has forced highways workers to carry out emergency resurfacing works.
The eastbound carriageway is shut between the A1065 (Swaffham) and the A1075 (Dereham). I…

Battle ramps up over new Norfolk ‘railway village’ homes

What would be Norfolk’s first new town in centuries could see up to 5,000 homes built on farming land between the villages of North Elmham, Billingford and Bintree, north of Dereham[1].
The settlement has been provisionally named the ‘railway village’,…