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Mayor of Attleborough Karen Pettitt capped off her year in office by presenting cheques totalling more than £3,000 to benefit two local groups.

The reception children of Bedfield Primary School, looked after by teacher Martine Sills and assistant Judi Page, are the featured class of the week.

William has lived with Feline Care for several months, despite being a confident and playful chap.

Diss mayor Keith Kiddie says it is “healthy”the town council held its first election in many years last week.

TODAY: Joseph Holland, 11, of The Orchards, Laxfield.

Breckland Council will remain under control of the Conservative Party over the next four years following the 2015 district elections, matching the trend of Conservative dominance across Norfolk and Suffolk on all electoral levels.

If south Norfolk and north Suffolk was a Conservative heartland before, it is even more so now after the results of the May 7 elections.

Members and friends joined the officers of the Stradbroke and District Branch of the Royal British Legion on Friday to remember the fallen at the village war memorial.

Staff and traders of the Corn Xchange Cornucopia in Harleston marked the launch of their new alley gardens with a nostalgic party in celebration of Victory in Europe (VE) Day.

A south Norfolk talking newspaper that serves people with vision difficulties has launched a public awareness campaign for donations to help fund an expansion, ahead of the recording of its 900th edition.

An appeal to trace the whereabouts of a teenaged girl known to frequent Diss has been ramped up after police confirmed she has been missing for over a month.

Burglaries in Burston which have seen cash and vehicles taken are being linked by police.

Redgrave Garden Club is hosting a plant sale on Saturday with all profits being donated to the Nepal Crisis Fund.

Redgrave rockers Walkway will join some of the biggest acts of the genre at a festival in London later this month after winning a public vote.

A pupil was beaten until he bled for sneaking out of a boarding school to meet girls on a nearby sports field, it has been claimed.

Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Dr Dan Poulter has stepped down as a health minister.

The long history of locomotive railways was brought to life in miniature form at the weekend for the annual Model Railway Show in Rickinghall.

Thieves stole several tools after ransacking a van in Talconeston at the end of last week.

Nobody has been hurt after an electrical fire broke out at Ichiban UK, a sushi producer based in Earl Stonham.

Nepal has a GDP of about 20 billion US dollars and the earthquake that hit there at the end of last month is estimated to cost from a quarter to a half of that - possibly even more.