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Planning Norwich Data Centre Plan at Keswick: Comment by 28 October Norwich Norwich Church Towers Bombed in 1942 Get £350,000 Repairs Business NO52 Women in Business Evening: Norwich, 20 Nov, £45

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Norwich HMP Norwich: 1 in 4 Freed Prisoners Had Nowhere to Live A quarter of men freed from HMP Norwich had no home to go to, its monitors say. Drug use rose, education was cut by nearly 40% and 150 men live overcrowded. · 4 min read Norwich Airport Norwich to Malaga Flights: Ryanair Adds Route for 2027 Ryanair will fly Norwich to Malaga twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays, from summer 2027. It is the airline's fourth route from the city and is on sale now. · 2 min read What's On Norwich Rivers Festival: 11 Free Events, 26 to 31 October Eleven free events on the Wensum, 26 to 31 October, from folk played from canoes to a bat walk and a Dragon Hall drawing day. Five need booking: here is which. · 7 min read Charity Norfolk Couple's 24-Hour Baby Loss Walk Passes £900 Tanya and Joe Rejek are walking 70-plus miles in 24 hours for the three babies they lost. Their appeal for TimeNorfolk and Tommy's has passed £900. How to give. · 8 min read Police Norwich E-Scooter Fall: Two Boys Seriously Injured One boy is in a life-threatening condition after an e-scooter fall on Frensham Road, Norwich, on Monday. Police want witnesses and dashcam footage. · 2 min read Crime Norfolk Stop and Search: Black People 6.3 Times More Likely Black people in Norfolk were stopped and searched 6.3 times as often as white people in 2025/26. In Norwich, searches rose 25% to 972 as the county fell. · 5 min read Christmas Winter Wonderland Norwich: free entry and parking, 20 Nov Free entry and free parking, booked in advance, from 20 November to 3 January at the Norfolk Showground. Opening days, hours, wristband prices, the ice rink. · 7 min read Halloween Halloween in Norwich: Cow Tower ghost walks, 23-31 Oct Norwich Ghost Walks' Halloween shows run at Cow Tower 23 to 31 October, £18. Plus two horror nights at the Arts Centre and the weekly ghost walk routes. · 5 min read Crime Norwich City Centre Crime: 886 Reports in August, Down 5% Police logged 886 crimes and anti-social behaviour reports within a mile of City Hall in August, up 66 on July but 43 fewer than in August 2025. · 5 min read Theatre Norwich Theatre Reports Staff Theft to Police After Inquiry Norwich Theatre says its own inquiry found a number of hospitality workers and employees stole from the charity. It has taken disciplinary action and told the police. · 3 min read Miss England Miss Norfolk Amy Morris Takes On Miss England Sports Round Amy Morris, Miss Norfolk 2026, missed the Miss England sports title in Leicester but goes on to the final at the Athena on 17 November. How the round went. · 7 min read Food hygiene Norwich Food Hygiene: Lowest Five-Star Share in Norfolk Two in three rated Norwich food businesses hold five stars, the lowest share in Norfolk. None is rated zero, and just five are rated one. The full register. · 6 min read
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Norwich has a tight boundary. The city council’s area stops well short of where the city actually stops, so streets that are Norwich in every practical sense sit in the districts next door and get their bins collected by somebody else. That is one of the reasons this site exists. It was due to change in April 2028, when a new Greater Norwich authority would have taken in the city along with parishes from Broadland and South Norfolk, but the government withdrew that decision on 7 September 2026 and put the whole reorganisation under review.

Until then, and after it, our job is the same. Read what the council publishes, the planning register, the licensing notices, the committee papers and the budgets, and write down what is in them plainly, with a link to the source on every fact.

Start here

  • Norwich house prices: £230,000 is the middle of the past year’s sales, and the ward tables show why that number moves so much across the city.
  • Trains to London: 1 hour 39 minutes on the fastest train, £10,716 a year on a season ticket, and every weekday departure.
  • Roadworks and travel: what is closed now, the A47 Thickthorn work, and all six park and ride sites.
  • Things to do in Norwich: the castle keep is open again, and ten more days out in the city cost nothing.
  • Planning: housing need is up 34%, land supply is 4.85 years, and Anglia Square is coming down.

The main sections

  • News: the record, from the planning register to the courts.
  • Local Info: the practical pages above, kept current.
  • What’s On: what is happening in Norwich this week.

Nothing is published here that we cannot link to a source.