The wife of a motorcyclist left temporarily unable to walk due to a hit and run incident has said the driver of the car that crashed into him ‘nearly left my ten-month old son without a dad’. The incident on Clayhithe Road[1] left 32-year-old Antony Fo…
A man in his 70s has died after being found seriously injured on a Norfolk roundabout. Emergency services including the air ambulance were called to Hardwick Roundabout, on the A47 in King’s Lynn.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin…
In his weekly ‘That’s Entertainment’ column, Andy Tyler looks at the local arts scene…
The Railways featured in the column last week and I certainly enjoyed visiting The Model Railway Day at Lynn’s London Road Methodist Church last Saturday. I was im…
Passenger services via Cambridge[1] station will be disrupted on most weekends during the autumn, as Network Rail[2] carries out major projects to improve the railway infrastructure in the area.
The two main projects are:
Credit: Network Rail
Train se…
A Cambridgeshire hospital has been named as one of seven prioritised by the government for urgent rebuilding work as it could fall down. Seven hospitals have been identified as being built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which has …
A firefighter allegedly threw a member of the public’s phone over a hedge as he tried to record a video of a wild fire. Jimmy Evans, 44, said he was on a public footpath when he started to film a blaze on an area of scrubland in King’s Lynn, Norfolk[1]…
A school in Norfolk has been rated “good” by Ofsted inspectors. Include Norfolk, an independent day school with two sites, one in Norwich[1] and another in King’s Lynn[2], was visited by inspectors in May having been told improvements were required in …
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…
John Jenkins (inset) and a section of the A47 near King’s Lynn (Image: Peter Walsh/Google Maps)A motorist carried on driving with a moped “embedded” in the front of his car after a serious crash on the A47, a court has heard.John Jenkins, 63, had been …
Drivers are facing delays across the county (Image: Newsquest)
Drivers are facing heavy congestion across the county as people begin to travel for the bank holiday weekend.
Major roads, including the A47, A11 and A140 are affected and the traffic i…
Three vehicles were involved in a crash on the A149 at King’s Lynn. (Image: Newsquest)
One person has been taken to hospital after a three-vehicle crash.
Police were called at 1.34pm today (May 19) to the A149 in King’s Lynn, just before the Queen …
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’,…
Michael Elcombe was driving the Peterborough to Norwich Excel service when the crash happened on the A47 between Gurhirn and Thorney Toll[1], in Cambridgeshire, on June 26, 2018.
Mr Elcombe, 45, of Cley Road, Swaffham, died at the scene of the crash.
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Britain’s slowest motorways are so outdated and in need of repairs that they’re stifling economic growth, a new report warns.
The roads, many of which were originally designed in the 1960s, create financial disparities between regions – particularly wi…