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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.

Diss, Norfolk. Graffiti on a building on the corner of Roydon Road

Soccer graffiti blights Diss walls

MORE graffiti has been painted on walls across Diss.

The ancient english tradition of Wassailing at Kenninghall wood over the weekend by the Green Man and the Lord of Misrule trying to wake the sprits of the trees from the depths of winter.
The wassailing custom comes from the Old English expression 'waes hael', meaning 'be in good health'. It is an ancient ritual which was held for many years in January in apple growing regions where it was believed that driving out the evil spirits by banging pots and pans and shouting to wake the tree spirits, would help to ensure a good apple harvest.

Ancient ritual to wake trees

THE trees in Kenninghall’s Community Orchard were woken from their winter slumbers last Saturday.

Diss, Norfolk. TW Gaze rural and bygones sale

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.

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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 rss

Italy Oasis act in Diss

ITALY’S number one Oasis tribute act play a headline show in Diss tonight.

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 rss

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.

Botesdale, Suffolk. Class of the Week - Botesdale Primary School - Class teacher Miss Charlotte Clements

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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