This May Bank Holiday, Sunday 6th and Monday 7th of May, Bircham Windmill are holding their annual Craft Fair. The fair and the Windmill attraction will be open from 10 am to 5 pm each day with free entry to the Craft Fair. Visitors will be able view a really traditional craft fair and speak [...]

Chris Hoddy, Chief Executive at Norfolk charity Break, has been ‘persuaded’ to run in the GEAR 10K on Sunday 6 May. “My wife Jan and son James have done the GEAR run for the past two years so I’ve now been shamed into it! Going to the gym is an alien concept for me, so [...]

The outstanding efforts of 13 organisations and individuals were recognised at a special awards ceremony at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange on 24 April 2012. The Opportunity Awards a designed to celebrate the work that people in the community do to ensure that disability is not a barrier. Borough Mayor, Cllr Colin Sampson, presenting the awards [...]

The Freebridge Community Housing Tenant Awards took place on Friday 27th April and recognised the contribution which Freebridge tenants are making within their communities. Now in their seventh year, the Awards were given out at a special ceremony at King’s Lynn Town Hall by presenters including the Mayor of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Councillor [...]

On Sunday, 6 May 2012, the streets of King’s Lynn are once again set to be filled with runners and spectators as the annual Bespak Grand East Anglia Run takes place. Around 1500 runners are expected to take part in what looks set to be another spectacular event. Entries for the Mini-GEAR Fun Run are [...]

A celebratory feast of music and the arts featuring top-class international names has been lined up for this summer’s King’s Lynn Festival to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics. The 62nd Festival, being staged from July 15-28, will be launched by Grimethorpe Colliery Band whose programme will include William Walton’s stirring Crown Imperial [...]

Local writer Stephen Tweed is hoping to bring together writers of all abilities and genres from the West Norfolk area by forming a new online Writers Circle. “The idea is that we read each others stuff, and make constructive comments. I have a web address already which could be used for the group if it [...]

St Nicholas Chapel will be filled with angels of all shapes and sizes during the weekend of 16/17 June. Ken Vincent, of the Festival of Angels Committee, said “It’s the first of its kind in Norfolk, as far as we know. It would best be described as a cross between a Scarecrow Festival and a [...]

From left to right: The Custom House, Greyfriars Tower, The South Gate, King’s Lynn Library and Red Mount Chapel. Over the years Caithness Crystal have commissioned Lilliput Lane to produce limited edition models of various famous buildings and landmarks in King’s Lynn. This year an exclusive model of St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham will [...]

Youngsters will be able to try out their cricketing skills and pick up tips from experienced coaches when the ECB Cricket Factory arrives in town on 21st April. ECB Cricket Factory in Partnership with Clydesdale Bank is an interactive Road Show that will give participants of any age the opportunity to try out all the [...]

Monday 23 April sees the second annual World Book Night and a very special celebration at Waterstones in Norfolk Street, King’s Lynn. For one night only the shop will be holding a film quiz – Scone with The Wind – bringing the chance to win some very special World Book Night prizes. “World Book Night [...]

King’s Lynn store Cook to Perfection has won the Retail Innovation Gold Award for businesses under £1m turnover at The Housewares Conference & Innovation Awards. Cook to Perfection moved premises last year to a prime high street position and had to significantly increase their stock holding due to the increased space. “In a challenging retail [...]

Bargain hunters were in their element on Good Friday, queuing around the block to get into Sue Ryder’s new superstore in the heart of King’s Lynn’s Nicholas Retail Park. Declaring the shop open at 10am was Alex Street, King’s Lynn FC goalkeeper. And shoppers keen for a bargain were certainly in for a treat, bagging [...]

Eastern Daily Press photographer Ian Burt and senior reporter David Blackmore completed a 212-mile bike ride challenge on Tuesday, raising over £2,500 for Great Ormond Street Hospital. They cycled the distance – equivalent to pedaling from King’s Lynn to the London hospital and back – on exercise bikes in the Vancouver Quarter in King’s Lynn, [...]

Visitors to the town on Saturday were confronted by the strange site of ‘Eggs on Legs’. Looking like a couple of little aliens, the two eggs can be seen here amusing children, both big and small, in New Conduit Street. It was all part of the Easter Celebrations organised by the Vancouver Quarter, which included [...]

Dawn Biggs kindly supplied us with these photos taken at the Napoleonic re-enactments at Houghton Hall over Easter: