February
Randell Agriculture looks set to close its 200-year-old farming and gardening machinery business following a fire at its Dereham depot in October. Pictured: Managing director William Randell at the company s base in Horstead. Picture: Chris Hill
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Randell Agriculture s managing director William Randell said the decision had been taken with a heavy heart in the wake of October s blaze in Toftwood which destroyed buildings and stock, as well as leaving one employee hospitalised with minor burns.
While the worker made a full and quick recovery, Mr Randell said the complex insurance claim of the substantial losses had still not been resolved.
Tributes paid to Dereham Cancer Care founder, Janet Money
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Tributes have been paid to a “remarkable” charity founder who helped the lives of hundreds of people throughout Norfolk.
Janet Money, of Scarning, the founder of Dereham Cancer Care, has died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed with the disease again last year.
One of her four brothers, Philip Mathews, 10 years her junior, said: “I’m immensely proud of the way she threw herself into Dereham Cancer Care. It gave her life a purpose after too many family tragedies.
“I am not sure if she ever liked being overtly thanked for what she did. A polite acknowledgement would suffice and the thought that she had helped someone else improve their lives.”
Dereham s old cemetery on Cemetery Road.
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Mid-Norfolk’s cemeteries have been hit by a spate of thefts of flowers and other ornaments left at loved ones’ graves.
Margaret Steward, from Scarning, had flowers taken from family graves at Scarning churchyard and at the old Dereham cemetery north of the town centre.
Ms Steward said it was not the first time flowers had been stolen from either graveyard.
“It’s horrendous. Why would someone steal flowers off a loved one’s grave?” she said.
She added: “It’s not a very nice thing to come across, but then it seems to be the norm these days. If somebody wants something, they just take it, don’t they?”
Breckland Council has launched a new video appointment system.
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A solicitor has warned a Norfolk council that it signed off on a planning application with “fundamental flaws” and that there are “strong grounds” for the permission they gave to be quashed in court.
It is understood Breckland council has now pulled the application from the planning committee meeting it was due to be discussed at on Monday, December 14, and the item has been deferred until 2021.
The letter warns that an agreement signed by Breckland “indisputably failed” to provide enough outdoor playing space on-site, but outline permission was still given to the developers.