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The Voice UK contestant Letitia George will star in the Respect to Aretha show Picture: Sweeney Entertainments
New Dame Ian Parkin brings cabaret glamour to Lowestoft panto. Picture: Marina Theatre Music fans enjoying Wolf Alice on the Obelisk Latitude 2018. Picture: Nick Butcher

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New report shows tourism is thriving in the East of England, but highlights the plight of listed buildings when the retailers leave town

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Jessica Hill
St Nicholas Street, Diss. Picture: Edward James

The latest research by Historic England shows that tourism is booming in the East of England, with the number of day visits almost doubling from 10m in 2012 to 18m in 2016.

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Video Would you like to be part of a local history project?

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Daniel Hickey
Chris Amos, Local Recall Project manager at The Forum, Norwich. PHOTO: Jamie Honeywood

“History from the bottom up” - this is how an archive editor at Archant has described the company’s project to digitise 150 years of its stories.

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Fancy a free visit to the museum?

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Daniel Hickey
Stories of Lynn, a museum in King's Lynn, will be free to enter for National Lottery players on Tuesday December 4.

Would you like to visit one of Norfolk’s museums for free?

Grave of German pilot has new headstone - 75 years on from death in Lowestoft

Saturday, November 24, 2018 Mark Boggis
Aviation historian Bob Collis at the new headstone in Lowestoft, which details Leutnant Eberhard Pleiss. Picture: Bob Collis

It is an “extraordinary story” that started in the wartime skies over Lowestoft and “has now come full circle.”

Bob Collis

Hitting the high note: Christmas Oratorio performance by Choral Society

Friday, November 23, 2018 Greta Levy
The Beccles Choral Society has returned for the festive season following their sell-out concert. Picture: Contributed

The Beccles Choral Society will return for the festive season as they host a performance of ‘Christmas Oratorio’.

Sir John Leman High School

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Car ploughs into shop front in six car accident

Police were called to the area at 2.25pm after a report of a road traffic collision on the busy stretch. Picture: Langwrights independent estate agents

Missing 44-year-old found by search volunteers

Police have found Mark Butler, 44 Picture: ARCHANT

‘Fortunately it wasn’t further up the road’: Firefighter hits out at illegally parked cars

Firefighters struggled to access a kitchen fire in Princes Road, Lowestoft. Photo: Ben Horne.

Fraudster jailed for six years after stealing more than £40,000 from victims he met on social media

Mark Grace, from Lowestoft, has been jailed for six years. Photo: Norfolk Constabulary.

Local jobs associated with offshore wind farm

Employees Matt Wooltorton and Tommy Rudd, based at Lowestoft, have key roles in East Anglia ONE Picture: ROB HOWARD

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