Watton and Swaffham News

What do you get when you mix some festive cheer, a Christmas sing-a-long, 12,500 cookies, dancing in the aisles and half a tonne of the best hot chocolate for miles? Why, the Polar Express train ride of course!

A gang targeted isolated rural farm buildings as they stole high value items such as power tools and quad bikes totalling around £60,000, a court heard.

Prison sentences should be imposed on people caught fox hunting, campaigners have urged.

Old Buckenham Airfield is gearing up for its most ambitious year ever.

A former visitor attraction could be brought back into use if a proposed swap deal between two councils is agreed.

The full list of people campaigning to become MPs in this year's General Election has been revealed.

A number of Norfolk murders remain unsolved to this day. Do you know anything that could help the police make a crucial breakthrough?

A driver will be having an awkward conversation with his mother after police seized his car.

Violence in Norfolk prisons 
has hit record highs with 
more than two assaults 
every day last year, while drug use is "widespread".

A man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill a woman who was assaulted in a Norfolk market town.

The boss of the region's mental health trust says he can "only imagine" the distress of patients placed in out-of-area beds, as he pledged to cut occupancy rates.

NHS IT systems in Norfolk are the "most digitally" immature in the UK, a health chief has warned.

A farmer's £1m bequest in his will to Cromer Hospital will help pay for a cancer care centre which will employ 33 people.

For keen golfer Danny Daniels, being told he would almost completely lose his sight served as a crushing blow.

Schoolchildren in Norfolk face disruption to their end-of-term celebrations due to imminent general election.

A watchdog has praised a "transformation" in front-line services for vulnerable children - but said "significant shortfalls" remain in other areas of practice.

Young people who claimed schools "just didn't care" when it came to bullying have sparked positive action.

Three academies have been threatened with closure if rapid improvements are not made.

Children could have a new soft play area and laser tag zone as a gym owner vows to give youngsters more to do in their town.

Clintons card store, which has three shops in Norfolk, is in restructuring talks with landlords over possibly closing 66 of its 332 stores.

The energy secretary has agreed to review plans which could see miles of countryside carved up to accommodate offshore wind farms.

The landlord of a newly-reopened pub is pledging to be the cheapest in town, pulling a £1.95 pint.