Coronavirus

Hour Community has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service – the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

The PM has confirmed the third stage of the lockdown roadmap is going ahead from Monday allowing people to meet in larger groups, mix indoors and hug.

Norfolk County Council is asking people to climb aboard its test buses to help beat Covid.

“We need to build back better, and that’s going to involve investment in infrastructure, broadband and housing," Richard Bacon has claimed.

At the time of her death, Miss Turner-Hewitt was believed to be one of the youngest people in East Anglia to die from the virus.

Coronavirus transmission has dropped to such a point that authorities are no longer sharing data on cases in much of the Diss Express area.

Pubs are installing a number of new outdoor offerings in preparation for Monday, but remain concerned over how the weather will affect their business.

Heather Richards has been selling ceramics with a 'smiling eyes' design on them to stress the importance of smiling during the pandemic.

After a long wait, residents in Diss have been given a date for when a vaccination centre will open in the town.

Tributes were paid this week to the thousands of people to have died during the coronavirus pandemic – including almost 450 in the Diss Express area.

Teachers in the Diss Express area have praised the “calm and joyful” return of children to classrooms after months of home-schooling.

Business owners from different sectors in Diss are split on the Government’s proposed plan to ease lockdown measures.

Almost 7,500 samples were collected during surge testing in Diss and Roydon, returning 51 positive results.

Fixed penalty notices for breaking lockdown rules were handed out by police after they were called out to a birthday party last week.

Public Health England have revealed how many tested positive for the virus after thousands of residents in both parishes were tested last month.

Officials have praised the response to the testing roll-out in Diss and Roydon last month, which saw eight out of ten people turn up to get tested.

The NHS has launched a new large scale Covid-19 vaccination centre in Harleston today

Home testing collection points are to close this week and testing centre operating hours have been reduced.

Councillor Minshull also praised the "incredible" success of the rollout so far.

More than 5,000 people arrived for testing on Friday, following the emergence of the South African coronavirus strain in the region earlier this week.