BUS driver Joe Cook, 69, celebrated half a century in the driving seat on Friday. Mr Cook was born in Gresham and has stayed in Norfolk throughout his life.

03 July 2009 11:28

She is more used to helping to look after a north Norfolk country church - but now Anne Sloman is taking on the responsibility for keeping a close eye on 16,000 Church of England religious sites across the country..

03 July 2009 10:11

A north Norfolk lifeboat crew is feeling buoyant after a Norwich-based delivery company depot handed over four new life jackets worth £700. The volunteers of the Sea Palling independent lifeboat will be donning the jackets just as their busiest time for rescues starts - the summer season holiday season..

03 July 2009 09:17

The people behind a new bar based at the former social club at RAF Coltishall are hoping to recreate the community spirit that once existed at the airbase..

03 July 2009 08:07

A celebration to mark the purchase of a wooden seat dedicated to West Runton Women's Institute stalwart Kitty Pearson has been held at the village railway station..

03 July 2009 07:04

Give us more backing - or we're sunk! That was the blunt warning to emerge from the well-attended annual meeting of 1st Cromer Sea Scouts on the eve of a proud milestone birthday..

02 July 2009 13:18

Two men claiming to be water board workers stole cash from an elderly man in a distraction burglary at North Walsham. One bogus official went to the kitchen to turn on the taps, saying he was having to test the supply before installing a new washing machine, while his accomplice took the cash from a wallet in the living room..

02 July 2009 11:59

Town leaders in Stalham have urged householders to fight a plan to formally identify a field opposite the high school as suitable for up to 160 homes. As work continues to finalise the new local development framework for north Norfolk, which will list suitable sites for various types of development over the next 15 years, in Stalham the site bounded by Ingham Road and Yarmouth Road has emerged as the current favoured option in the eyes of North Norfolk District Council..

02 July 2009 11:04

After five years of planning, a brief funding crisis and objections from the Ministry of Defence, work on a £1bn north Norfolk wind farm has at last begun..

02 July 2009 09:31

A north Norfolk apprentice hopes an epic egg and spoon race will help him provide vital aid to poverty-stricken families in Peru. Robert Highe, from North Walsham, plans to switch his job as an apprentice planner with BT for two weeks to help build a medical centre in a South American slum and then to help families in a remote Andean village..

02 July 2009 09:30

A woman with Down's syndrome is sitting pretty in a new wheelchair - thanks to a £3,300 fundraising effort. And a £1,000 cheque from the North Norfolk News's aerial photographer has helped raise extra cash for an electronic keyboard so she can indulge her love of music..