A man has died following a crash in Fressingfield, near Harleston, yesterday.

As the gates to the Royal Hospital Gardens at Chelsea opened to the world’s media yesterday, with a frenzy of activity as photographers and camera crews vied for the best vantage points, there was also a very palpable sense of relief among the hundreds of nurserymen and women who have come to exhibit their prize horticultural specimens that their stands were complete and looking their very best.

Breakdancers from across the country are heading to Norwich this weekend to battle it out for a place in an international competition.

Power has been restored to more than 1,600 homes in Thorpe St Andrew which were left without electricity for more than four hours yesterday.

On the eve of a pivotal public hearing governing where thousands of homes could be built around the fringe of Norwich, campaigners are attacking the growth targets and policies which could shape the city’s future. Rural affairs correspondent CHRIS HILL reports, in the first part of a week-long series.

The four peregrine falcon chicks nesting on Norwich Cathedral’s spire are all reported to be doing well.

Police in Norwich have launched an investigation after a woman claimed in a tweet she had knocked a cyclist off their bike.

It has crossed an open sea and covered many miles on its return journey, and after a near half-century break, the Lacons’ falcon is coming back to land in its home county. Lucy clapham reports.

Perhaps no other event at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival brings together all ages like the sold-out Baby Disco Dance Hall.

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A Norwich man saved his sleeping neighbours when flames from a suspected arson attack on a garden shed threatened to spread to nearby homes.

A man who was kicked and then punched repeatedly in the face as he sat down while enjoying a drink has spoken of his shock after the attacker was cautioned despite admitting the assault.

A pensioner has told how he woke up from an afternoon nap to find a burglar standing over him, who then attacked him holding a knife.

A 69-year-old north Norfolk man has been sentenced to eight months in prison after police found more than 5,600 indecent images and movies of children - one of the largest discoveries in Norfolk - on his laptop.

Costessey Library staff will be rolling back the years tomorrow when they celebrate the building’s 50th birthday.

Tributes have been paid to a disability campaigner and sports fan who has died aged 25.