Benson the dog enjoying a spring walk in Great Wenham Picture: SOPHIE BARNETT

Many of us can't be with our mums this weekend. Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Emma Butler Smith, Marina Theatre chief executive. Picture: Marina Theatre

Nostalgia

Nine stories of Norfolk saints and shrines

Wed, 19:00 Rowan Mantell

Richard Caister pilgrim badge. It would hav been bought by someone who had visited the shrine of the vicar of St Stephen's church, Norwich, after his death in 1420. Picture: Norfolk Museums Service

Norwich

Norwich

WEIRD SUFFOLK: The witches’ stones of Lowestoft that run to the sea at midnight and can conjure rain from the sky

Saturday, March 28, 2020 Stacia Briggs and Siofra Connor

The Witches Stones at Belle Vue Park, Lowestoft. Picture: Geograph.org.uk/ Adrian S Pye

According to legend, stones placed in Lowestoft’s Belle Vue Park in Tudor times run down to the sea at the first chime of midnight and can be used as ‘rainmakers’.

Weird Suffolk

Prime minister urged to consider alternative VE Day celebrations by Norfolk pageantmaster

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Daniel Hickey

The Celebration and Thanksgiving Service for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at St Andrew's Church, Gorleston. Pageantmaster Bruno Peek, organiser of the service. Picture: Denise Bradley

A celebration marking the 75th anniversary of VE Day has been cancelled due to coronavirus - but the event’s organiser believes an alternative is still possible and has written a letter to the Prime Minister.

Video Work on new £1m park ‘progressing well’

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Mark Boggis

Work to turn Ness Point in Lowestoft into a landmark destination is continuing as the most easterly park in the UK is developed. Pictures: Mick Howes

Play equipment is being installed as work to transform Britain’s most easterly point is progressing well.

Lowestoft Suffolk

Scholarships provide ‘chance of a lifetime’ aboard iconic Excelsior

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Mark Boggis

Crew members aboard LT 472 Excelsior - the last working fishing smack to be sailing out of Lowestoft. Picture: The Excelsior Trust

It is one of the nation’s most important historic ships.

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