Published:
6:30 AM April 2, 2021
Phil and Steph Williams are hoping to raise £25,000 to buy a bigge site for Thetford Food Bank to operate from.
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown
A foodbank which has supported thousands of vulnerable people has been awarded £12,500 towards the purchase of a permanent home.
Thetford Foodbank recently launched an appeal to raise money towards the purchase and renovation of a new building so it can expand its services.
The charity is currently based at the Charles Burrell Centre in the town and has a storage warehouse for donations on Napier Place.
However, its lease is set to run out at the end of June.
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Published:
8:10 AM March 15, 2021
Updated:
8:16 AM March 15, 2021
The A11 will be closed overnight every night between Attleborough and Thetford for 15 weeks, according to Highways England.
- Credit: Denise Bradley
Part of the A11 will be closed in both directions overnight for 15 weeks as the project to improve the road moves into its final phase.
From 8pm until 6am every day, the stretch of road between the Ellingham junction in Attleborough and the A1075 roundabout at Thetford will be closed to all traffic.
It starts from Monday, March 15, and will run until late June.
Highways England said: We will be doing extensive resurfacing work on this stretch of road so that motorists and the community can enjoy a better road surface, and so that we can make efficiencies by doing all the resurfacing work in one go.
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At 3am on Thursday, January 7, Mr Havens got a call from a dog walker.
The AVANT 423 Loader with log grab which was stolen in Thetford, was discovered by a dog walker in Thetford Forest.
- Credit: Mark Haven
Steve, who does not wish to reveal his identity, was walking with his wife when she spotted the loader on Wednesday, January 6, around midday.
The 66-year-old assumed it belonged to the Forestry Commission.
But in the early hours of Thursday morning, as he scrolled through Facebook, Steve spotted the Facebook post and called Mr Havens.
“We went and checked it out about 7am,” said Mr Haven. “It was down a track in Thetford Forest, about four miles from where it got stolen.