IT MUST be 40 years since I last rode a bicycle, a decade after my previous excursion on one, and it was a scary experience. In the interim, traffic had increased considerably, seemed to be driving at Formula One speed, and kept forcing me into the gutter by passing within a few inches of my right elbow.

20 August 2010 18:10

ALTHOUGH the Norwich southern bypass has been in use for no more than a few decades, it has been of incalculable benefit to drivers heading between Great Yarmouth and the Midlands and north of England..

13 August 2010 12:55

EVEN if you have never switched on your wireless since Terry Wogan retired from Radio 2 last year - or, perhaps, have not listened in since In Town Tonight, Workers' Playtime, Variety Bandbox and ITMA went off the air - please make a point of tuning in on Monday morning for a delicious taste of Norfolk nostalgia..

06 August 2010 11:14

SIXTY-FIVE years after the second world war ended, it continues to occupy the minds and long memories of many of the older generation who lived through those ghastly times..

29 July 2010 18:07

NO crystal ball was peered into, no mystic consulted, but my 2006 prophecy has proved satisfyingly spot-on. “Should there ever be another HMS Norfolk or Yarmouth visiting here, she might well be able to tie up in the new outer harbour,” I wrote..

22 July 2010 15:10

ALTHOUGH I am no fan of electricity-generating wind turbines - they seem an inefficient, expensive and extravagantly subsidised form of power production - I have grown to like the 30 sprouting from Scroby Sands..