All super-heroes have a nemesis. Turns out that the same goes for vacuum-cleaner-repair engineers in Norwich. Nik Grey, aka The Dyson Doctor, was recommended to me by a family member when my vacuum cleaner needed a bit of a spruce-up: it had been in storage for three years and seemed
Something delicious, juicy and purple is on the horizon. Any day now it will become legal in the UK to farm, market and sell a new category of super-foods that has been Invented in Norwich. Secondary legislation for the Precision Breeding Act 2023 has reached the House of Lords. Maybe
If you've spotted a whopping great social injustice and you want to get your point across with maximum impact, what do you do? The women of The Common Lot, Norwich's socialist theatre group (and purveyors of the very fine Boudicca, the Panto) decided that the answer
At 5.28pm on Friday an email was sent around to Norwich City Football Club staff, saying that - following last year's change of ownership - Delia will also be stepping away from the club's catering business. The email read: "As part of the club
2023 was a big year for Simeon Morris. How big has only just become apparent. “I got to make the rhino harness for Gladiator 2. Now the film is out, I’m allowed to talk about it,” he said. The movie was released a couple of months ago, on 15
Norwich gave birth to England’s first local newspaper and this is a picture of its masthead. It was started in 1701, 36 years after the first London newspaper and both were weekly. When the librarian at The Forum opened the green cardboard folder with a flourish for me the
Once upon a time, in 17th century Norwich, there was a little dog called Fuddle. He probably looked a bit like this (above). Fuddle belonged to a now-extinct class of dog called a Turnspit. (I hesitate to say he was part of a “breed”, since the Kennel Club, which categorises
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