How safe is Norwich? After a week in which two men are charged with murder following the death of banker Frank McGarahan on the city's streets, Shaun Lowthorpe spends Saturday night on patrol with the police to gauge the mood of a city coming to terms with the tragedy.

Detailed plans of Cromer's planned new £26m hospital will be showcased in the town this month. Local people will see architects' impressions of what the long-awaited rebuild will look like.

A 50-year-old woman died in hospital from head injuries after falling down stairs in a complex of flats where she lived in Dereham. The woman - who has not yet been named - had been out on Friday evening in the town but was found at the bottom of the stairs by friends at Beech Court, just off the High Street.

A fresh warning was today issued to people on their guard against suspected rogue traders after another incident in the Dereham area. A pedestrian was approached at about 11am at the war memorial in the Market Place at Foulsham and offered items for sale.

Householders in the Beccles area are being warned to be on their guard after reports of a suspected bogus official today. Norfolk police received a report of a man calling at a property in The Street area of Geldeston at just before 10.

The police investigation into a serious sexual assault on Lowestoft seafront has been called off after a 36-year-old woman admitted that the incident did not happen.

Waveney MP Bob Blizzard has today been promoted to chief treasury whip. Mr Blizzard, who was made assistant treasury whip in June 2007, has been promoted to Lord Commissioner to the Treasury as part of a cabinet reshuffle.

Drivers faced delays on the A47 today following a four car crash. The collision happened at about 9.10am at the East Tuddenham junction and involved a silver Vauxhall Corsa, blue Ford Focus, gold Renault Megane and black Audi.

A Lowestoft family man is behind bars after he admitted downloading more than 15,000 indecent photographs of children as young as 18 months. Stephen Harris, of Lyndhurst Road, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Ipswich Crown Court and was also ordered to be put on the sex offenders register for the next ten years.

A Norfolk pensioner awarded the MBE for his work with youngsters appeared in court this morning charged with further sexual offences against young boys.

A Norfolk hospital has unveiled a £5m expansion plan to double the size of its training and education centre. The scheme for the James Paget University Hospital, in Gorleston, will include the provision of a new medical library, a computer training suite for staff, conference facilities and a clinical research and trials unit.

Today the humble bungalow stands in a Norfolk coastal village almost unnoticed, only its black wooden cladding setting it apart from neighbouring properties.

It's the season of mellow fruitfulness - so get out there into the countryside, or even just your local deli, and find some of the delicious local produce that is right on our doorstep.

A farmer protesting against plans to create a holiday lodge and caravan park in Yaxham is urging people to sign his petition. THPD Properties wants to build 25 lodges with a touring caravan and tent park, café and shop on the site of the former Breckland Garden Centre on the B1135 Dereham Road.

They have stuck with the love of their lives in sickness and in health for 25 years. But for footballing friends Debs Smith and Daren 'Dil' Gilbert it was an unbroken love affair with Norwich City Football Club they were celebrating on Saturday at a special party laid on by the club's majority shareholders Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones.

Women's football may be on the up and up but with more young girls keen to make it into the sports higher echelons it seems Norfolk girl's youth teams are paying the price.

Just five years ago he was told be would never be able to bend down far enough to put his socks on again after osteoarthritis forced him to have both hips replaced at the age of just 42.

She started off as a nurse, and has just celebrated eight years in charge of Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Trust. As World Mental Health Week gets under way, Health Correspondent Sarah Brealey talks to Pat Holman about what to do with teenagers and how society is causing mental illness.

A teenager had a narrow escape yesterday after his car rolled into a flooded Norfolk ford trapping him inside. Mark Cranswick was one of a number of people caught in floods after almost a month's rain fell in less than a day.

Taxpayers across the East of England are being short-changed to tune of £6.5bn by the Treasury, according to new figures. More is being paid by eastern taxpayers than is being spent on the region with the balance being used to subsidise other parts of the country.

A builder who left £1 million in his will made sure that the future of his village institute would be safeguarded for future generations. Albert Shackcloth, of South Creake, near Fakenham, who died earlier this year aged 60, left £50,000 in his will for the on-going running costs of the South Creake War Memorial Institute.

Tory county council leader Daniel Cox has carried out a mini-reshuffle to replace a colleague convicted of drink driving last week. Mr Cox has appointed Shelagh Gurney as deputy cabinet member for adult social services.

The temperature may have soared, but for 56 volunteer firewalkers it was a case of keeping calm and cool underfoot as they stepped across hot cinders without so much as a flinch.

A rocket hisses into the air and explodes with a thud over a lifeboat as it crashes into the surf on a life-saving mission. It is spectacle seen and heard by generations and a timeless tradition in the lifeboat world.

A pensioner who died in a blaze at her Norfolk home has been named as Susan Brett. Mrs Brett, believed to be in her 70s, died in the fire at her bungalow home on Main Road at Clenchwarton, near King's Lynn.

The South Broads lifeboat was launched at 2am yesterday to take a couple and their dog off a houseboat at Lowestoft Marina, near Victoria Road, Oulton Broad.

One can imagine the confusion if a partner said they had to go in an oyster or spaceship to change into a swimsuit on Cromer beach. And then picture the ensuing chaos if someone accidentally stomped on the miniature changing room and crushed it under heel.