West Norfolk schools welcome the return to the classroom as government s roadmap is revealed
| Updated: 19:32, 24 February 2021
West Norfolk s educators have welcomed the news that pupils across the country are due to return to schools on March 8 as lockdown restrictions ease.
Last night s announcement revealed the prime minister s roadmap for reducing lockdown restrictions, including a return to the classroom for students.
Norfolk County Council leader Andrew Proctor said: I welcome the PM s roadmap for giving us clarity on how lockdown can be eased, in stages, based on the data.
Swaffham Primary Academy, photo credit: DNEAT (44557216) Covid figures in Norfolk are going down but we are not complacent and want to ensure that this progress is maintained as lockdown eases.
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10:06 AM January 22, 2021
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10:18 AM January 22, 2021
Drivers have been told to take care on the roads while a Met Office warning for ice in the East of England is still in place. Picture: Archant
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Police have urged people to be wary of icy conditions following a crash between a car and a lorry on one of the region s main roads.
At 6.34am on Friday, police were called to a crash on the A148 at Hillington after a car and a lorry were involved in a crash.
The incident happened between the Harley Dams and Flitcham turnings, with the lorry blocking the road as a result.
As those who’ve watched the latest season of
The Crown will know – in which a young Lady Diana Spencer wins over the Royal Family by going on a successful deer stalking mission with Prince Philip – animal hunting is part of royal tradition. Yet such sports are increasingly seen as inhumane and environmentally damaging, with the Duke of Cambridge most recently having been called upon to make changes to how game shooting is conducted at Sandringham.
Game shooting is part of Royal Family tradition, with the famous Boxing Day pheasant shoot at Sandringham an annual staple of the festive season. This year, however, the Queen and Prince Philip will be celebrating Christmas ‘quietly’ at Windsor on account of the pandemic, rather than hosting typical festivities at the monarch’s Norfolk estate.
It’s also just a few metres from a bird hide where the Queen is sometime seen sitting inside bird watching.
The man who photographed the Little Owl inside the Fenn trap, who does not wish to be named, told me it is “just about the worst snare you can set”.
The Little Owl caught in the snare. Credit: National Anti Snaring Campaign
In April, new government legislation came into force which demands that the Fenn traps are only permitted ”for the purpose of killing grey squirrels, weasels, rats, mice, other small ground vermin”.
But staff from the NASC recently found ten of the same Fenn traps still in use at Sandringham and they have called on the royal estate to replace the traps with those which safeguard wild bird and animals, such as the stoat.
| UPDATED: 17:23, Thu, Dec 17, 2020
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Queen Elizabeth II, 94, owns a large amount of land and property across the UK including the 20,000-acre Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. Unlike Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, Sandringham is privately-owned by the Queen who placed her husband Prince Philip, 99, in charge of running it upon her accession to the throne in 1952.