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Miss England Miss Norfolk Bonfire Night Party at Bond, Tombland, 5 Nov What's On Luxmuralis at Norwich Cathedral: Sold Out to the Last Night Film Norwich Film Festival 2026: 136 Shorts, 6 to 15 November

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All The events
  1. On now to 8 Nov Field of Remembrance, Norwich Cathedral Norwich Cathedral
  2. 3 to 7 Nov Christmas Carol Goes Wrong Norwich Theatre Royal · From £15.90
  3. Thu 5 Nov Light Up the Night: Bonfire Night Party With a Purpose 6.30pm · Bond · From £10.19
  4. Thu 5 Nov Light Up the Night: Miss Norfolk's Bonfire Night party 6.30pm · Bond · From £10
  5. 6 to 15 Nov Norwich Film Festival 2026 Cinema City

Latest Norwich news

Christmas Festive Holt 2026: Lights On 5.30pm, Friday 13 November Holt switches on its Christmas lights at 5.30pm on Friday 13 November, with shops open to 7pm, a music and arts day on the Saturday and a Sunday market. · 3 min read Norwich Norwich New Year's Eve: no city fireworks, what is on 31 Dec Norwich has no council fireworks on New Year's Eve. What is on for 31 December: Channel One at the Arts Centre to 1am, two Peter Pan shows, and New Year's Day. · 4 min read Business Norwich city centre shops 90% occupied, highest since 2008 Nine in ten Norwich city centre shop units are now in use. Vacancy fell from 15.2% to 9.8% in a year, though Anglia Square's demolition helped the figure. · 4 min read Sport Sloughbottom Park wins up to £850,000 for all-weather pitch The Football Foundation will put up to £850,000 into a 3G pitch at Sloughbottom Park in Mile Cross. A contractor is due on site next year, later than first planned. · 3 min read Local Info Norwich Roadworks This Week: King Street and A11 Southbound King Street is due to shut at Abbey Lane from 2 November and the A11 closes southbound at Thickthorn on Monday night; Trinity Street follows on 4 to 6 November. · 30 min read Local Info Norwich Petrol Prices: Cheapest Unleaded and Diesel Today Cheapest petrol in Norwich today: unleaded from 169.7p and diesel from 143.8p a litre, across 6 forecourts within 8 miles. Updated every morning from the... Weather Norwich Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Norwich weather today: drizzle, 12°C by day and 5°C overnight, with a 90% chance of rain and winds up to 9 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning. Christmas Norwich ice rink: real ice at the Showground from 20 Nov Norwich's Christmas ice rink opens on 20 November at the Norfolk Showground: 1,000m² of covered real ice, skate hire included, free entry and free parking. · 5 min read Norwich Norwich house prices down £4,671 in a year; rents up just £9 The average Norwich home sold for £227,535 in August, £4,671 less than a year ago. Rents rose £9 a month, one of the slowest rises in England. · 6 min read Libraries Norwich Millennium Library fully open again after door shattered The Millennium Library's ground floor reopened on Saturday 24 October, three days after its glass entrance door shattered. All events are going ahead as planned. · 3 min read North Norfolk North Norfolk MP Seeks 10p Fuel Duty Cut for Rural Buses Steff Aquarone has asked the Transport Secretary for a temporary 10p a litre fuel duty cut and a funding review for subsidised rural buses in North Norfolk. · 3 min read Long Stratton Long Stratton High Asks Shops for Tissues: 60 Boxes So Far Long Stratton High School has 60 boxes of tissues for pupils and wants shops and residents to give more or host a collection point by World Kindness Day. · 2 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.