“Then people started donating food and meals, and the supermarkets started giving us stuff, and a whole army of volunteers offered to pack and deliver it.
“We helped people with things like picking up prescriptions, and set up care meals for the elderly and isolated. That means 15-20 meals a day delivered now, which we will continue.
“But while the White Hart gets given credit there are so many others in the community that have gone above and beyond to help people.”
Other places with a high number of Covid deaths are Downham Market, Dereham and Necton.
The village of Hethersett sits at the opposite end of the scale, with just two Covid-related deaths recorded since March last year.
“Then people started donating food and meals, and the supermarkets started giving us stuff, and a whole army of volunteers offered to pack and deliver it.
“We helped people with things like picking up prescriptions, and set up care meals for the elderly and isolated. That means 15-20 meals a day delivered now, which we will continue.
“But while the White Hart gets given credit there are so many others in the community that have gone above and beyond to help people.”
Other places with a high number of Covid deaths are Downham Market, Dereham and Necton.
The village of Hethersett sits at the opposite end of the scale, with just two Covid-related deaths recorded since March last year.
Published:
6:30 AM January 25, 2021
Mike Downes from the Rotary Club of Aylsham is co-ordinating an appeal for laptops and tablets for children.
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Alongside this newspaper s Every Child Online campaign, many others are pitching in with schemes to ensure every child has access to online learning.
An estimated 6,000 in the county are currently without a digital device to complete online learning, with 1,000 families believed to have no way at all to connect to the internet.
Mike Downes of Aylsham Rotary Club, who is also vice chair of Aylsham Learning Federation, has been raising funds and collecting equipment for students at schools in Aylsham, but he is now urging people to support our campaign after becoming overwhelmed with donations.
Published:
9:07 AM January 19, 2021
A man walks past a poster in the window of a Primark shop in the final week of a four week national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus.
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Almost half of all deaths between March and December last year in Norfolk s worst hit neighbourhoods were from coronavirus.
ONS data shows the virus was responsible for 802 deaths in the region – 8pc of the 10,442 deaths recorded.
The highest Covid death toll came in Swaffham, where 26 people died. In all, 123 people in the town died during the same period, meaning the virus was responsible for 21pc of deaths.
Published:
9:07 AM January 19, 2021
A man walks past a poster in the window of a Primark shop in the final week of a four week national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus.
- Credit: PA
Almost half of all deaths between March and December last year in Norfolk s worst hit neighbourhoods were from coronavirus.
ONS data shows the virus was responsible for 802 deaths in the region – 8pc of the 10,442 deaths recorded.
The highest Covid death toll came in Swaffham, where 26 people died. In all, 123 people in the town died during the same period, meaning the virus was responsible for 21pc of deaths.