Andrew Turner

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Zoe Applegate |Andrew Turner

Talking, crying and laughing on the menu at bereavement cafeZoe Applegate & Andrew TurnerAndrew Turner/BBCThomasina Scott-Greenard says she is determined to get people talking about the subject of deathA moment is seared into Thomasina Scott-Greenard's memory. Shortly after the sudden death of her 19-year-old son Oliver, she walked into her local supermarket only for it to be "like the parting of the Red Sea - people turned their backs on me because they didn't know what to say".

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Andrew Turner |Chris Goreham

Image source, Andrew Turner/BBCImage caption, Page Turners launched on BBC Radio Norfolk in the week that Great Yarmouth's new library was officially opened in The PlaceCelebrity authors and TV personalities have backed a local BBC radio campaign to boost childhood literacy. According to the Office for National Statistics, one in four children in Norfolk do not meet the expected standard in reading by the time they leave primary school.

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Zoe Applegate |Andrew Turner

Image source, Andrew Turner/BBCImage caption, Emergency services have been called out to close Caister Medical Centre, a week on from its first evacuation A GP practice was evacuated for the second time in a week while emergency services investigated "changes in air quality", it said. Caister Medical Centre on West Road, Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, was first closed on 29 April after 16 people fell ill.

1 month ago | bbc.com | Clare Worden |Andrew Turner

Safety equipment installed following kayak deathClare Worden & Andrew TurnerAndrew Turner/BBCClaire Wadham hopes the signs make young people think twice about entering the waterWarning signs and buoyancy aids have been installed near a waterway by a trust set up by the mother of a teenager who drowned in the area. Cory Chilvers, from Terrington St Clement, Norfolk, died after his kayak capsized in the Middle Level Main Drain at Wiggenhall St Germans in July last year.

2 months ago | bbc.co.uk | Owen Sennitt |Andrew Turner

Image source, GoogleImage caption, Hopkins Homes has been given a six-week final deadline to complete paperwork and legal agreementsLocal Democracy Reporting ServiceA developer has been told by a council that it has one final chance to solve legal issues that have held up a 1,100 home estate. The Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk's planning committee said it had run out of patience with Hopkins Homes, which has been granted its third extension for the scheme in North Runcton.