The leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) is to visit Great Yarmouth next month on a political visit.

Nigel Farage MEP - who is a familiar face on BBC Question Time - will address a crowd at Gorleston Pavilion Theatre on February 6 for a public meeting.

He will be spending more than half a day in the borough, meeting and taking questions from business leaders as well as visiting East Norfolk Sixth Form College.

Mr Farage, who first took the helm of UKIP in 2006, hit the national headlines in 2010 when he was injured in an aircraft crash in Northamptonshire.