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Tributes have been paid to “a true leader” and former headteacher - Mary Luh - who made a cuppa for everyone who visited her north Norfolk school. ....
East Anglia is in need of a spending spree - Credit: Archant With nowhere to go and no one to see, the British public has been racking up the savings during a year’s worth of lockdowns. However while pub closures have been bemoaned and hairdressers sorely missed, consumers have got used to seeing their cash staying in the bank – an estimated total worth £180bn. Economists are urging shoppers to make the most of businesses reopening and inject some of that money from under the mattress into the parched high street. Indeed Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, said last week: “I very much want as much as possible to be spent that’s what creates the demand and the jobs to help those who may have lost their jobs, who may have suffered a cut in income as a result of the crisis.” ....
Keith Skipper Published: 10:00 AM February 14, 2021
Broadland reed-cutter and marshman Eric Edwards in his home-made museum at How Hill passing on his knowledge and enthusiasm to visiting schoolchildren. - Credit: Contributed It’s easy to fall into romantic raptures over the great Norfolk outdoors while you’re stuck inside to cogitate at length for best part of a year. Perhaps those weaned on delights like bountiful hedgerows, leafy lanes, buttercup acres, echoing ponds, whistling cyclists and harvest suppers are even more susceptible to that rural idyll. Never mind tied cottages, long hours, meagre wages, knocking and topping sugar beet coated in ice and mud and long waits for electricity and indoor toilets. Just remember being so close to nature and a brand of self-sufficiency long gone over the headlands of yesteryear. ....