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Our wedding day was disrupted by bombing

Their wartime wedding might have interrupted by a bombing raid, but Jim and Joyce Rose did not let it spoil 65 of peace and love between them.

Children decide on activity funding

Youngsters from primary schools around Norwich got the chance to decide how to spend £20,000 on fun activities during the summer holidays, thanks to a pioneering project.

Teacher battles severe sickness on trek

A Norfolk high school teacher who battled severe altitude sickness and backache to trek up Mount Kilimanjaro has raised more than £5000 for charity.

Music brings schools together to perform

More than 200 Norfolk schoolchildren have worked together in harmony to perform a magical concert as part of a special music workshop day.

Special concert held for Ella Grace

The family of a little girl with a life-threatening illness have been given a boost by schoolchildren who organised a special concert to raise money towards the toddler's vital operations.

Friends bowl-up in red for event

Scores of bowling enthusiasts near Norwich dressed themselves in bright red on Friday to raise money for charity.

Pupils row length of channel for charity

A group of Hellesdon High School pupils will soon be rowing the length of the English Channel on a rowing machine to raise money for charity.

Sweet addition to home holiday packages

A bedbound ME sufferer who set up a company to give other the people with the condition the chance to holiday from home has now set up a new chocolate holiday package.

Bingo hall support cancer charity

A bingo branch in Norwich has pledged to raise thousands of pounds for a cancer charity as part of a new campaign. Mecca Bingo on All Saints Green has launched its 2010 charity partnership with Marie Curie Cancer Care, which helps local terminally ill people to be cared for at home at the end of their lives.

Residents get in the red

Hethersett Hall residential home took part in the Wear it Red day to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

Birthday celebration to help heroes

Jill Cutting celebrates her 65th birthday with a charity singing contest for Help for Heroes. A Sprowston woman struck the right note when she decided to turn her birthday celebration into a charity singing contest.

Children learn about the Jewish faith

A national exhibition on the Jewish Way of Life was visited by more than 1100 Norfolk schoolchildren in a fortnight.

Talent keeps youngsters out of trouble

With auditions taking place across the country to find out if Britain's Got Talent producers of the ITV1 show would do well to look no further than students from a Norfolk high school - which is trying to use talent to keep youngsters out of trouble.

Chance for kids to be creative

March is set to be a magical month for families visiting the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, with the opportunity for children to make garlands of flowers and dough sculptures.

Schoolboy raises money for Haiti

The Colman Junior School pupils A young boy was so touched by television footage he saw of people Haiti that he organised a special cake sale to raise money for them.

Pupils go batty over wildlife project

The Open Academy students Pupils at the Open Academy in Norwich have been making special boxes for a thriving population of bats discovered on a construction site.

Youngsters dig in to improve environment

Sea Scouts, Cubs and Beavers joining the Norwich Fringe Project, Thorpe Town Council staff and other dignitaries to plant trees and hedges and improve the area in Dussindale. A group of more than 30 green-fingered youngsters have transformed a neglected area of Dussindale in a bid to enhance the environment and reduce anti-social behaviour.

Doreen is a community champion

She might have a terminal lung disease that leaves her struggling for breath, but that has not stopped Doreen Cochrane from working tirelessly to improve her community and raise money for charity over a period of more than 30 years.

A mountain to climb for Miss Norwich

She is one of the city's most glamorous women and has just been crowned Miss Norwich, but Salema Junior-Radford will soon be ditching the stilettos and donning her walking boots in a bid to raise thousands of pounds to help children with cancer.