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Norfolk woman turns inherited 1970s model village into a garden attraction

Some hobbies start small and quietly take over. For Jane High, it began with a love of miniature figures and ended with a front garden that draws smiles from passers-by. She was given a homemade 1970s model village, rebuilt it after it arrived in pieces, and has kept adding to…

The Times of India · Oct 18

Romanian national denies raping teenage girl on Norfolk beach

Norfolk Police said Madalin Ilinca was stopped at the port of Dover re-entering the UK and subsequently charged

The Independent UK · Jul 28

Second man charged with alleged rape of teenage girls on beach

Dawid Wlach has been charged with two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault

The Independent UK · Jul 20

Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast

The government hails the ‘green revolution’ as a solution to economic decline, but some young jobseekers say the rhetoric does not match their experience

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14

UK far right lines up behind Rupert Lowe in challenge to Reform

MP who fell out with Nigel Farage and has backing of Elon Musk launches anti-immigration party in Great Yarmouth

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15

I wrote a BBC drama about hope in a ‘left-behind’ town – but Britain changed faster than I could script it

The aspiration to write a “state-of-the-nation” drama is the great white whale of political writing. Take the work of legendary German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Exiled by Hitler to Scandinavia in 1933, he attempted to capture life in his homeland from anecdotes and verbatim accounts. The result, his state-of-the-nation play Fear…

The Conversation · Feb 12

Rupert Lowe to be given Tory spot on influential parliamentary committee

The MP for Great Yarmouth will get a Conservative seat on the Public Accounts Committee because he shares the party’s values of ‘cutting waste’.

Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2025

Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’

MP agrees to donate £1,000 to crew’s fundraising effort after alerting authorities to their boat off Great Yarmouth

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2025

Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe mistakes charity rowers for ‘illegal migrants’

‘Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW,’ the former Reform member wrote on social media

The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2025

MP Rupert Lowe admits mistaking charity rowing crew for ‘illegal migrants’

The fundraising boat crew was contacted by the Coastguard near Great Yarmouth.

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2025