Twenty inmates at Wayland Prison have raised over £840 as part of a sponsored run. The prisoners had to run continuously for one hour around a specially designed course on the premises, completing as many laps as possible.

LOWESTOFT: Three people arrested on suspicion of a burglary of a business premises in London Road North have been bailed by police. A 24-year-old man was arrested on a town centre roof on Thursday night in an operation which included the police helicopter.

LOWESTOFT: About 25 firefighters tackled a spate of blazes in Lowestoft early on Saturday morning. Four crews from Lowestoft and one from Beccles were called to five separate fires in the Raglan Street and Granville Road area of town.

A day of celebration was made even more special when the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales held a mass to mark the centenary of St Benet's Minster, in Beccles.

A pilot escaped uninjured after his light aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in a crop field at Potash Lane, Hethel.

A 30-year-old man had his wallet and mobile phone stolen after being assaulted in a Lowestoft car park on Wednesday evening. The man was walking home from the town centre through the Belvedere Road car park at about 6pm when he was approached by a man near the bridge in Mill Road.

Fire breathing, illuminated, giant-sized dragons danced through Norwich in a special parade to kick off the Lord Mayor's celebrations.

Farmers in the region have rejected a report claiming biofuels have pushed up food prices by 75pc.

A homeless man who carried out a one-man crime spree along the Norfolk coast by burgling nearly 100 caravans and holiday chalets was jailed for 12 weeks yesterday.

The surgeon who saved Norwich baby Ella-Grace Honeyman died just a day after performing the operation.

For years, the windmill at Denver created an unmistakably East Anglian scene with its creaking sails breaking the flat horizon of the fens.

One of East Anglia's biggest drugs barons is back behind bars after a police operation to stamp out his trade on “misery, death and deprivation”.

A prolific burglar who carried out a string of break-ins was yesterday jailed for four years at Norwich Crown Court. Vytautas Panavas 26 of Birchwood Street, King's Lynn admitted two burglaries in Lynn and asked for 20 similar offences to be taken into consideration.

Olympic sprint champions Linford Christie and Darren Campbell were on Yarmouth seafront last night encouraging youngsters to go for gold the way they both started - in humble races held on the street.

A church hall which is much used by community groups will have to close because it needs too many expensive improvements. Worlingham church hall, near Beccles, has been home to the village drama group for 38 years and the group is devastated.

A school swimming pool in Loddon could be opened to the public if it gets a refurbishment. Hobart High School's pool is the only pool in the village, but is only used by pupils and for children's lessons at the White Dolphin swimming club.

A bus was gutted in a blaze which threw a cloud of smoke over a residential area of North Walsham last night. The single-decker Sanders bus burst into flames as it reached a mini roundabout in Millfield Road about 5.

A man accused of brutally raping a student after she walked home from a night out told a jury yesterday that he thought she was a prostitute and had agreed to have sex with him for £50.

A 24-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after a break-in in Lowestoft on Thursday night. Police attended a business premises in London Road North at 11.30pm.

Three men have today been jailed for a total of 26 years after Norwich Crown Court heard they ran a Yarmouth-based drugs empire. The men were each charged with one count of conspiracy to supply a Class A controlled drug.