- Welch claims the Big Brother spoils
- Cleric warns against gay marriage
- Three held after bank occupied
- Security checks at FA Cup showdown
- Government record on racism slammed
- NHS faces 'peril' if plans derail
- Welfare protesters plan occupation
- Man quizzed over 'road rage' death
- Brothers in court on murder charge
- Escaped prisoner back in custody
- Homeowners 'pay less than tenants'
- Two charged over decapitated body
- Soldier shot dead in Afghanistan
- Farmer jailed over rotting animals
- Burglary victim died of injuries
- Police perjury retrial 'unlikely'
- Face of man who helped escapee
- Have-a-go pensioner 'whacks' raider
- 350 steel redundancies 'disastrous'
- Crimewatch leads on jail van escape
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Family’s jump raises £8,000 for charities
NINE members of a south Norfolk family have raised more than £8,000 for two causes close to their hearts by skydiving 10,000 feet.
Counter services reduced
POST office services have been restored to a south Norfolk village, but counter time has gone from 18 to three hours per week.
Ancient ritual to wake trees
THE trees in Kenninghall’s Community Orchard were woken from their winter slumbers last Saturday.
Bidders bag bygones
BIDDERS braved the rain on Saturday at Gaze’s Diss auction rooms in Roydon Road as a weird and wonderful array of rural and domestic bygones went under the hammer.
Sport
Champion Magpies
HARLESTON Magpies under-16s girls side returned to Weybread this week clutching the National Indoor Hockey League Championship.
Norwich City fan Craig Daniels looks forward to the master vs apprentice dugout battle
THE Norwich City clean sheet hoodoo is finally over after an excellent defensive performance in last week’s stalemate with Chelsea.
Taylor handed transfer funds to save Town
DISS Town manager Rob Taylor has revealed he has been given a war chest by the club to keep his side in the Ridgeons League Premier Division.
Ipswich Town fan RUSSELL CLAYDON reveals the scandal of paying to watch the Blues when Premier League Norwich charge much less
IT WAS a startling admission from a player voted by our fans as the best we ever had.
Lifestyle
Fun in the garden
CHILDREN are in for a treat when Nutmeg Puppet Company presents Pip’s Wildlife Garden at Diss Corn Hall tomorrow at 2pm.
New year, new plans in Palgrave
THERE is a new plan for the new year at Palgrave Community Centre starting with a table top sale tomorrow.
The show must go on
THE Attleborough Players are well into the swing of their latest production Sing a Song of Sixpence, which opened last night at the Connaught Hall.
Squash it or not?
AS part of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust Valley Fens Local Group Talks, Robert Maidstone will be giving a talk entitled Squash it or Not, insects in your garden.
Community
In tomorrow’s Diss Express
IN tomorrow’s Diss Express, read about a £1million Heritage Triangle idea which would breathe new life into the under-appreciated north of the town.
Chilly new topic for Botesdale pupils
THE Reception classroom at St Botolph’s Primary School in Botesdale has been a bit chilly for the last few weeks after pupils created an igloo.
PG’s Tips: January column with Diss’ Pete Gillings
NEXT month, February 7 to be precise, will be 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens who must have crossed the local area on more than one occasion as he normally wrote about people or places that he was familiar with.
Council backs bowling alley for Diss but still refuses housing estate
DISS Town Council has given its backing to an application for a bowling alley, cafe and cinema in the town, but still refuses to back a plan for a small housing estate.
Green light for Roydon turbine
AN application to build a small scale wind turbine on farm land at Roydon has been given the green light.
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Weather for Diss
Saturday 28 January 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 1 C to 6 C
Wind Speed: 13 mph
Wind direction: North
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: -0 C to 4 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: East
