2018 Local News Stories

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Putting East Anglia on the hairdressing map: Salon named best independent in England

An Oulton Broad hairdressers have been officially named as the best independent salon in the country.
CODE Hair Consultants, in Bridge Road, were awarded the honour by the National Hairdressers Federation after eight years in business.
The awards were held in Manchester to celebrate the best hairdressing, barbering and beauty businesses in the industry.
Salon owner Laura Bull said she entered the competition to highlight the fantastic service her team provide.
She said: “It is a massive achievement for our team to win this big industry award when we were shortlisted among so many big award-winning salons around the country.
“Although I was shocked to win, I truly believe the experience we provide at CODE is as good, if not better, than anywhere else in the country.
“We hope this award really puts East Anglia on the map for having an all-round great hairdressing business.”
The judges commented on the excellence of the entry, the business investment, and the salon’s recent charity work to support mental health awareness.
Earlier this year, employees at the salon rolled out a new initiative designed to get people talking about mental health, by encouraging both workers and customers to speak more openly about issues that are affecting them.
The salon also passed a ‘mystery shopper’ inspection with flying colours, earning 100pc client satisfaction ahead ahead of the winning verdict.
Ms Bull said: “We are so pleased to have been recognised as an outstanding business in this sector.
“We had the mystery shopper come in as part of it and it all added together to get us this far.
“It is absolutely amazing for us to win being in Lowestoft when we were up against salons in far bigger cities.
“We were almost sure someone else would win even though we have been doing great things, so we were absolutely over the moon when they said our name and told us we had won.
“I just could not believe it.
“We have been entering competitions since we opened in 2010 but this is the biggest we have won and it is just amazing.”

Lowestoft Journal

Well done to them!

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Steam engine hits car at Sheringham level crossing


Image: Norfolk Police

A steam engine hit a car in a crash at a level crossing.
The 1912 Y14 locomotive ploughed into the silver Mercedes near Sheringham railway station, Norfolk, at about 11:30 GMT.
It is thought the motorist was heading to a nearby golf club at the time of the crash, which badly damaged the car.
A police officer who shared an image of the wreckage said the Mercedes driver and three men aboard the engine were unhurt.
The engine - built in 1912 - had been travelling at 8mph to Weybourne to hook up with a dining car, a North Norfolk Railway spokesman said.

General manager Andrew Munden said the Sweet Briar Lane crossing's lights and sirens were sounding at the time.
"We are all so relieved that this was a low speed collision and that no-one was injured," he said.
Services resumed by the afternoon after the Rail Accident Investigation Branch had given permission to clear the site, Mr Munden said.
PC Jon Parker, of Norfolk Police tweeted: "Currently on scene at a train vs car incident. Unsurprisingly, the train emerged the victor."
The popular Poppy Line route runs between Sheringham and Holt on the Norfolk coast.

BBC Norfolk

An expensive round of golf!

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Looking at the picture I hazard a guess that the train was actually travelling towards Sheringham at the time of the incident, albeit in reverse.

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The report states it was travelling to Weybourne, Morty.

"The engine - built in 1912 - had been travelling at 8mph to Weybourne to hook up with a dining car"

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I know BB, I read the report.

What I am saying is the standard of reporting is abysmal as it is quite obvious that the train was travelling in the opposite direction. As reported in other journals.

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Woman with guide dog verbally abused at Woodbridge station


Image: British Transport Police
Police said the man pictured may be able to help with their investigation

A man abused a partially sighted woman, branding her a "fake" as she waited for a train with her guide dog.
The victim was at Woodbridge station in Suffolk when she was "targeted with a torrent of verbal abuse", British Transport Police said.
He shouted and swore at her over a 25-minute period, saying "you are not disabled, you are fake".
Police are treating the abuse as a hate crime. They said the man shown in the CCTV has information that could help.
The woman was first approached at about 22:00 GMT on 7 November and a man began petting her dog and asking about her disability.
However, he became abusive after she asked him to stop as the dog was becoming agitated and she felt intimidated.
Disability hate crime is defined by the Crown Prosecution Service as "any incident or crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's disability or perceived disability".

BBC Suffolk

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Haverhill warehouse: Man dies in chilled storage 'accident'

A man trapped for 24 hours beneath storage units in a chilled food warehouse has died, police confirmed.
Rescue teams were called to reports of a man stuck under collapsed units on Iceni Way in Haverhill, Suffolk, at 13:44 GMT on Thursday.
Dzintars Klementjevs, who was in his 40s, died at Culina Logistics' temperature-controlled storage facility.
Suffolk Police said nobody else was hurt at the site.
Emergency services are still at the scene and police are continuing to investigate the death.
BBC News

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‘They are becoming a nightmare‘ Shopkeepers concerned by mobility scooter ‘problem’

Concerned shopkeepers in Great Yarmouth have warned it will only be a matter of time before somebody is injured by a speeding driver on a motor scooter.
One owner on the historic Rows has admitted he has resorted to placing a sign in the alleyway to slow riders who ‘zoom’ down the narrow strip.
Shop owners in the Rows have raised concerns over the size and speed at which motor scooters are travelling at.
Ian Stannard, 44, owner of Home Sweet Home and Del Boyz Trading Depot on Market Row, has described the scooters as a “nightmare”.
He said: “The speed some of them travel down here at is really dangerous. It is no surprise that some elderly people do not want to walk down the rows. They are fearful they will be knocked over.
“They are becoming a nightmare and some days you struggle to cross over the road because two scooters have blocked it off.
“On Saturdays I put my sign in the way to purposely slow them down.”
The Highway Code states mobility scooter riders must stick to a 4mph limit when driving on the pavement.
EDP

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Man jailed and told to give his collection of 5,000 rare bird eggs to Natural History Museum

A “one man crime wave” who collected more than 5,000 rare bird eggs has been jailed and ordered to give the entire collection to the Natural History Museum.
Daniel Lingham, 65, was reported to police by a member of the public who saw him “head-to-toe in camouflage gear” picking eggs up from the ground at Cawston Heath in north Norfolk, Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard.
Colette Harper, prosecuting, said officers stop-searched him on May 21.
She said he had eggs on him and produced two small tubs of eggs. Officers also found he had a catapult and tree climbing spikes with him.
She said that Lingham told officers: “I’ve been a silly man, haven’t I?”
Officers later searched his home and found tubs containing eggs all over his house, including under his bed, in the kitchen and living room, with many of them handwritten on.
Mrs Harper said officers found 5,266 eggs of species including nightingales, nightjars, turtle doves, chiffchaffs, little-ringed plovers, woodlarks and kingfishers.
The eggs had been taken from 134 different locations, including in Norfolk.
Lingham, of Newton Park Homes, Newton St Faith, previously admitted five offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
EDP

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust remains 'inadequate'

The UK's worst performing mental health trust has been rated inadequate for a third time, with patients trying to take their own lives waiting for care.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) had unsafe acute wards and was seriously understaffed.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said bosses repeatedly failed to protect patients and a charity has called for the government to intervene.
NSFT said it was disappointed but "determined to get things right".
Inspectors found patients left unsupervised in segregation, a high proportion of urgent referrals downgraded unsafely and that unfilled shifts led to 139 incidents in six months.
However, adolescent and child mental health wards were rated outstanding.
NSFT is the only mental health trust in the country to have been put into special measures, a step first taken in February 2015. The trust came out of special measures in October 2016, only to have that status imposed again a year later.
Paul Farmer, from mental health charity Mind, said: "When a trust fails and then fails again, you have to ask questions about what action needs to be taken to change that."
He said the options available to a health secretary included having parts of the service taken over by another mental health trust.
BBC News

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Transformation of record office service to be debated

Feedback from a controversial consultation into the Lowestoft Record Office and “future delivery” of the service will come under scrutiny in the next few days.
The transformation of the Suffolk Record Office (SRO) service provided in Lowestoft will be debated as two meetings are held.
The Lowestoft Record Office decision-making process will be discussed at a meeting of Suffolk County Council’s scrutiny committee at Riverside, in Lowestoft on Thursday, November 29.
It relates “to transforming the service” and covers the period from July 2015, when the county council’s cabinet decided to approve the business case for The Hold project, to January 2018, when the county council stated that the existing Lowestoft Record Office would be replaced by an unmanned Access Point.
The report to councillors states: “To explore the practicalities of the way in which the final decision about the future of Lowestoft Record Office has been reached, and how the available options were communicated and consulted upon, with a view to applying the learning to future decision making.”
The scope of this scrutiny has been developed to provide the committee with information to come to a view on five key questions.
Next Tuesday, December 4 the county council’s cabinet will meet at Endeavour House in Ipswich to assess the Lowestoft Record Office consultation as a 116-page report from the interim director of growth, highways and infrastructure is discussed.
EDP

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First look at BBC One’s moving Christmas trailer filmed in Cromer

It attracted hundreds of people to Cromer earlier in the year and now everyone gets to see what all the fuss was about.
The BBC decamped to north Norfolk in October to film a two-minutes long Christmas trailer called Wonderland.
And its first airing will be on BBC One on Saturday, December 1 after Strictly Come Dancing. It will then run and in key junctions between programmes throughout the Christmas period on the channel.
The film crew erected a set on the pier that included a Christmas tree, and the creative team behind the trailer, Edward Usher and Xander Hart said they were amazed by the number of people watching the filming. Scenes play out on the beach, pier and in the amusement arcade in the town.
Mr Usher said: “We were looking at seaside photos and saw Cromer with its pier and knew that was the place to film it.
“It’s a quintessential British scene and it’s timeless. It felt beautiful and magical. A lot of people have happy memories of growing up at the seaside.”
The crew spent about four days in the town and stayed in various hotels in the area.
Mr Hart said: “We were lucky with the weather. The first day we arrived a gale was blowing, but after that it was sunshine.
“The film is about a mother and teenage son who live together in a seaside town, finally getting to spend an afternoon together. The mother is played by Caroline O’Hara from Manchester and the boy is a new actor, Alex Draper from Nottingham, who stood out at casting.
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Suspected drink driver five times over limit stopped driving along path

The vehicle was stopped on Jubilee Way, Lowestoft, at around 10.20pm on Sunday and the driver was discovered to be more than five times over the legal driving limit.
Norfolk and Suffolk Roads and Armed Policing Team tweeted: “Can’t quite believe that I’m now tweeting this. Vehicle stopped in @LowestoftPolice by #1826 after it was seen driving on the path on Jubilee Way. An evidential reading of 184, some 5 and a quarter times the legal limit! Fortunately no one was hurt!”
Sgt Chris Harris said he was shocked to hear about the incident but pleased the driver had been stopped.
He tweeted: “I was shocked and couldn’t believe it but pleased you stopped this driver before they hurt someone or themselves. Sometimes we’ll never know what we may have prevented.”
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Suspected drink driver five times over limit stopped driving along path

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Lowestoft drink-driver five times legal limit

A driver has been jailed after mounting a pavement in his car while five times over the drink-drive limit and forcing a pedestrian to jump out of the way.
Martin Bolton, 59, was jailed for four months after failing a police breath test in Lowestoft on Sunday.
Bolton pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates' Court to drink-driving.
District Judge Nicholas Watson said no drink-driver had previously appeared before him having had such a high level of alcohol in their system.
Judge Watson said the custodial term was due to the "gravity" of the offence, with the police saying that as a driver the amount he had drunk was "ridiculous".
Bolton was found to have 184 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit in England is 35 micrograms.

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‘Flour bombing’ teen sentenced for ‘nasty attack’ on woman

A teenager who lost his job and college place, and was subjected to “worldwide opprobrium”, must now repay the community for his part in a “nasty attack” on a vulnerable woman.
Cohan Semple was the only one of five teens to have turned 18 when charged and then convicted of ‘flour bombing’ the 49-year-old in Bury St Edmunds on July 27.
As such, Semple, of Willcox Avenue, faced adult sentencing for threatening, abusive or disorderly behaviour, in an incident that drew ire from across the globe.
After pleading guilty in Ipswich on November 1, Semple returned to relive the case, as prosecutor Lucy Miller described the victim sitting on a bench off St Olaves Road when approached by a group of youths who asked if she wanted to buy drugs and then spat on her.
Some disappeared, she told the court, before returning with eggs and flour, which the group threw over her – an act captured on camera by Semple, who shared the photo with about 20 Snapchat contacts – one of whom posted the offending image on Facebook.
Semple gave up the names of his co-conspirators when they were put to him in interview, but would not divulge his Facebook password and bemoaned receiving “death threats, humiliation and invasions of privacy”. Only with a solicitor present, did he express remorse for the photo, which he insisted was not intended for publication beyond a small group.
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