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The Junior Boggle Board give a thumbs up to the latest attraction at BeWILDerwood, TheTowering Treetop Tangles. PICTURE: Jamie Honeywood
The Teddy Bear Express running on the Bure Valley Railway pulls into Aylsham from Wroxham. Pictured is Eli Stuart. Picture: MARK BULLIMORE Mind reading duo DNA. Photo: Gaby Jerrard PR

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Video Is this Norfolk’s best love story? Letters to give insight into 1960s life published for first time

Thu, 06:05 Donna-Louise Bishop
Maureen Blake, of Mattishall, near Dereham, has launched a blog to publish letters her and her husband Alan wrote to each other in the sixties. Mr and Mrs Blake on their wedding day in May 1963. Picture: MAUREEN BLAKE

A collection of letters sat hidden away inside a shoe box in a loft in Norfolk for years gathering dust.

Video Where you can find Vikings in Norfolk

Wed, 10:56 Rowan Mantell
The Sheringham Viking Festival 2018 Byline: Sonya Duncan Copyright: Archant 2018

As the new Viking exhibition at Norwich Castle unveils some of the country’s greatest Viking treasures we visit Viking links around Norfolk from a festival in Sheringham to a great heathen army in Thetford.

United Kingdom

Mystery behind camera crew’s appearance at Norfolk museum

Friday, February 8, 2019 Conor Matchett
A TV crew was at Ancient House Museum in Thetford, but staff have been sworn to secrecy as to why. Picture: Ancient House Museum

A Norfolk museum has been visited by a BBC camera crew, but no-one is allowed to say why.

BBC

What did the Vikings do for us?

Friday, February 8, 2019 Rowan Mantell
A new exhibition, Viking: Rediscover the legend, runs from February 9 to Sepetember 8 at Norwich Castle Museum. Picture: Neil Didsbury

As a major new exhibition arrives at Norwich Castle we find out about the legacy the Vikings left in our language, landscape and legends

France

Video ‘My father was told his home no longer existed’ - Memories of a lost Norfolk village

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Conor Matchett
Colin Hunt with his old family photographs from when his family lived in Tottington before the area became the Stanford Training Area, or Battle Area, near Thetford. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY

Imagine being given only two weeks to pack up all of your belongings, find a new place to live, and told to leave your childhood home to the army.

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Boarders could return to school for first time in 70 years

Thetford Grammar School could see new boarders for the first time in 70 years. Picture: Ian Burt

Video Revealed: How council knew about problems at Thetford horror flats for six years before moving tenants out

Angelika Miko, tennant in a mould infested flat in Glebe Close, Thetford with two of her children Lena (left) and Olivia (on lap), have been moved into emergency accommodation. Picture: Ella Wilkinson

Mystery phenomenon affects cars in Norfolk town

The Pike Lane car park in Thetford. The town has seen reports of cars failing to unlock with their keys. Picture: Google

Hundreds in Norfolk sign petition to ban ISIS members returning to UK

Photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Shamima Begum, who fears her unborn baby will be taken away from her as her family pleaded for the teenager to be allowed back to the UK

County Hall deny accusation they knew about nursery closure before children’s centre decision

Treetops Nursery in Thetford is one of three run by Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust which is at risk of closure. Picture: Sophie Smith

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