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Sophie Wyllie

Senior reporter

News reporter for Eastern Daily Press and Norwich Evening News who covers a variety of stories for Norwich and the surrounding county of Norfolk. Has worked for Archant for nearly 10 years and has reported on a variety of subjects.

Chris Edwards, headteacher at Reedham Primary and Nursery School, pictured in 2013. 

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'It is abominable' - rural school forced to fully shut after oil theft

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Simon Kindleysides, who is paralysed, is walking four miles a day using his ReWalk Robotics suit to

Coronavirus

Paralysed man walking 112 miles in robotic suit for the NHS

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Sophie Matthews and Paul Matthews, owner of The Egg & Spud man. 

Food and Drink

Egg and Spud Man's delivery service booms in lockdown

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Flooding in Long Stratton on January 19, 2021. 

Norfolk Weather | Updated

Nine Norfolk flood alerts ahead of Storm Christoph

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From top to bottom and left to right, Linsey McFarlane, Jack Jenner, Mark Kacary, Sue Lawrence, Leon Lambert and Colleen Roper.

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'Stuck in an awful dream on loop' - six people on third lockdown impact

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Iain Armstrong, who was allegedly murdered on the Greek island of Ithaca. PHOTO: Courtesy of Iain Ar

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Inquest into death of Norfolk man attacked in Greece may not be held in UK

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Most secondary school pupils would start the new term learning online to allow headteachers to roll out mass coronavirus testing of children and staff.

Coronavirus

Key worker parents told: 'Don't send your children to school yet'

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Norfolk comedy performer Ben Langley.

Coronavirus | Video

Performer's lockdown life poems turned into book

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Parents drop off children at Queen's Hill Primary School, Costessey, as some pupils begin to return.

Coronavirus | Video

In their own words - How students coped with a year of restrictions

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Dr Andrew Page, head of informatics at Norwich's Quadram Institute.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Video

Calls for lockdown as 81% of cases at N&N found to be new variant

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