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When 13-year-old Prince Philip visited Cromer following 1934 crab boat disaster

Picture showing Prince Philip presenting an award to the winner of the equestrian competition.

Prince Philip

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Prince Philip's naval connections are well documented, but at just 13 he made one of his first trips to the county following the 1934 Cromer crab boat disaster. Following the announcement of Prince Philip’s death on Friday, April 9, communities...
Prince Philip who died yesterday aged 99. Picture: Matthew Usher.

Prince Philip

Town church to hold memorial service for Prince Philip tomorrow

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Christopher and Fiona Craske with their children, Victoria and James, at the Rocket House Cafe in Cromer. 

Obituary

'He was always joking' - Tributes paid to lifelong fisherman

Stuart Anderson

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Kate Tritton, director, at Karttrak Cromer which has reopened and they have put in Covid safety meas

Guidance change sees bookings lost at go-kart track

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Despite mounds of litter plaguing the nations public spaces the north Norfolk coastline remained clean and tidy.

Litter problems not experienced in popular north Norfolk town

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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The cliff slide at Overstrand which has blocked a coastal road.

Public warned to stay away after cliff slide blocks coastal road

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Cromer lighthouse keeper, Graham Fearn (photo: Paul Hewitt)

Lighthouse keeper's art collection raises cash for cancer ward

Stuart Anderson

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Donald 'Donny' Abbs who has died aged 93

'He loved his job' - Popular Cromer lifeboatman dies aged 93

Sabrina Johnson

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Beccles Town Youth Football host members of Dutch football club, Hoevelaken.

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'It's been far too long' - youth football teams look forward to restart

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Sisters and business owners Simone Hopwood and Leona Gard at Welly's Smokehouse in Cromer, part of t

Coronavirus

'I'm not going to alienate the younger population' - publicans sceptical...

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Rev Dr Mike Bossingham at the railway line at Hall Road in Cromer, where a bank of trees near the li

Anger at 'wholesale destruction' of trees beside railway line

Stuart Anderson

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Cromer lighthouse keeper, Graham Fearn (photo: Paul Hewitt)

Lighthouse keeper's art will raise money for new cancer centre

Stuart Anderson

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The former Eastern Daily Press and North Norfolk News offices in Church Street, Cromer, which could become the new base...

North Norfolk District Council

Plans to turn former bank into hub for adults with learning disabilities

Sabrina Johnson

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Darren Hollingsworth, vice-principal at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy is to take over as the new p

Cromer Academy students self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19

Stuart Anderson

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An artist's impression inside the proposed sports hub in Cromer. Picture: NNDC

Council political groups blame each other for £3m fitness hub 'mess'

George Thompson, Local Democracy Reporter

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Rachel Andrews, the owner of Roost which is relocating to a new premises in West Street.

Florist Roost announces relocation to Cromer town centre

Sabrina Johnson

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Plans for a £3.2m community sports hub in Cromer have been submitted. Image: NORTH NORFOLK DISTRICT

North Norfolk District Council

Council's handling of axed £3.1m tennis hub project to be reviewed

Sabrina Johnson

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Richard Leeds, left, has taken over as station manager of the Cromer National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) station...

Town mayor takes over as Coastwatch station manager

Stuart Anderson

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A quiet Cromer beach in the sunshine. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY

Parts of north Norfolk coast stay quiet in first weekend after roadmap

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Sheringham town centre. Photo: KAREN BETHELL

Coronavirus

'All in this together' - majority of readers back national lockdown easing

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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People enjoying sun on the beach in Sheringham in normal times. Photo: Steve Adams

'Travel bible' names Norfolk beaches in list of UK's best

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Quiet Cromer as a few people are out and about during the first weekend of the second lockdown. Pict

Cromer Pier to re-open to the public from next month

Sabrina Johnson

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The people of North Walsham have had their say on the government's restriction ending road map.

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Have your say - should north Norfolk be able to ease restrictions sooner?

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Cromer Hospital. PHOTO: ANTONY KELLY

'A huge improvement' - hospital hails unveiling of £8m MRI machines

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Cromer Crematorium's parent organisation, Westerleigh Group, is offering families who have lost loved ones at the site an...

Norfolk crematorium offers extra help to grieving families

Abigail Nicholson

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Fishermen have shared pictures of an octopus they caught while off the coast of Cromer in North Norfolk.

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Fishermen catch amazing orange octopus off north Norfolk

Sabrina Johnson

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A new deli could be coming to West Street in Cromer

Planning and Development

Plans to turn former estate agent into a new deli in Cromer

Sabrina Johnson

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A British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from Colchester did a controlled explosion aft

How often bomb disposal teams have been called to Norfolk and Suffolk

Sabrina Johnson

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A 1949 Field Marshall has been called out of retirement after a Goff oil tanker became stuck in Aldborough.

Norfolk Weather

72-year-old tractor rescues stranded oil tanker

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Lowestoft RNLI's Shannon lifeboat 'Patsy Knight' and crew being put to the test during the ‘Beast from the East’ in 2018

'Think twice' if planning to visit the coast this weekend

Mark Boggis

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