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A King's Lynn man has been up in the High Court for swapping songs online. click here to see news item.

The King's Lynn Mart is the oldest fair in the country, dating back to 1537. It's now a bustling fun fair, and will once again be taking over the Tuesday Market Place for two weeks starting on February 14th.

Locals refer to "Mart Weather" - as it always snows during Mart week!

Despite this, we plan to "rug up" and take pictures of the fair and opening ceremony - possibly even some video footage. So keep watching the site!

We hear (unconfirmed) rumours that a new Harry Ramsdens fish bar could be opening, on the the St Nicholas Retail Park.

The park was formerly the site of Anglian Canning, and at the moment has four retail outlets: Wickes DIY, Farmfoods, Choices Video, and Netto Foodstore.

We've been busy working on the site again, with the Events Page now more up to date (It was still showing events from 2001!) and given a new look to the Shops Page.

There's still heaps to do... but we hope to have everything fully working and up to date within the next few months. Also, lots of new features planned. Keep us bookmarked!

A purpose-built concrete state-of-the-art helipad is planned for Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital which would allow the services to run after dark, if needed, for the first time.

At the moment the helicopter can't land at night so patients have to be taken elsewhere - Norwich for example. No emergency services can be run at night although there will be the opportunity to transfer patients if required during the evening.

However, in order to accomplish our Helipad Appeal the East Anglian Air Ambulance need to raise £60,000.00 to build this facility which will give them the chance to use the Queen Elizabeth Hospital 24 hours a day. Only the Norfolk & Norwich currently has such facilities in the whole of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

If you would like to make a donation you can make cheques out to East Anglian Air Ambulance, and send them to Lynn News Helipad Appeal, Limes House, Purfleet Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1HL. If you have a credit or debit card, you can make a donation online by clicking here. Make sure you select the Kings Lynn Helipad Appeal from the dropdown menu.

A lady from the USA tells us she is searching for ten of her relations in Lynn. See the Guestbook for more details.

We can reveal that the new Woolworths Big W store is set to open in New Conduit Street on March 10th. It's moving from Broad Street to much bigger premises. Also in the town centre, we see that The Perfume Shop has been stocked up and nearly ready to open. We will keep you updated.

We have been busy once again, working on the website today: Updating broken links, and out of date information. Also adding new features, such as this Web Log. It's a big task, as the site has not been updated for years... and there's still much to do. So please bookmark us, and keep calling back, as we strive to make this site one of the best in Norfolk!

Other recent changes include automating the News section and a new automated Jobs section.

Why not help save a life by donating some blood. It's easy - Just show up at a blood donor session, sit back and share a pint with them. That's all it takes!

There are two blood donor sessions taking place in Kings Lynn on 19th Jan and 9th Feb at The Kings Centre, Wellesley Street. [Map]

Session times are Thursday 19th Jan 10.30-1.00 & 2.00-4.30, Thursday 9th Feb 1.00-3.30 & 4.30-7.00

For more details Telephone 0845 7 711 711, or you can visit The National Blood Service online at www.blood.co.uk, or on BBC2, Ceefax page 465.

Lots of new shops have opened in the town over the past few months, including TK Maxx, Peacocks, Poundland, TJ Hughes, Stead and Simpson, Claire's Accessories and Deichmann shoe store.

Happy New Year from King's Lynn Online. Our website has been offline for several years, and at the moment we are busy updating the content. We apologize for any out of date content or bad links, but plan to have the site fully up-to-date very soon.