Seven fire engines and search and rescue team attended incident on Boxing Day morning

The body of a woman has been found in a property on the outskirts of Norwich after a house fire, police said.

Officers were called to assist the fire service at 4.22am on Boxing Day after reports of the blaze at a residential property to the north of the East Anglia city.

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Grey seals are growing in numbers on England’s east coast as a result of environmental safe havens and cleaner North Sea waters

It is a cold winter’s day to be lying on a beach, but the seal pup suckling from its mother doesn’t mind. A few metres away, a pregnant seal is burrowing into the sand, trying to get comfortable, while a third seal, which has just given birth, is touching noses with her newborn pup.

The shoreline – a mass of seals and their white pups – is one of Britain’s greatest wildlife success stories: a grey seal colony on the east Norfolk coast.

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Booted out of her Norfolk constituency in July’s general election, the former PM is still wildly ambitious. Will she make a comeback?

By 5am on 5 July, it was clear to the hundreds of candidates, officials, activists and journalists gathered in the Lynnsport leisure centre in King’s Lynn for election night that the former prime minister Liz Truss had lost her parliamentary seat.

But from then until 6.45am, Truss was nowhere to be seen. Even when the other candidates were told to make their way on stage for the official announcement that Labour’s Terry Jermy had spectacularly overturned Truss’s previous majority of 26,000 to win the seat of South West Norfolk, the former prime minister was still not there.

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Stylish but timeless, Old Town’s utility-inspired tailored clothes have won many fans among artists and celebrities. Now it’s to close, leaving devoted customers bereft

The premise of Old Town clothing was a simple one: choose from a limited range of designs and fabrics (cotton drill, canvas, linen or cord), provide your measurements and, a few weeks later, a box would arrive through the post containing your trousers, jacket or skirt, handmade in Norfolk by designer Will Brown, Marie Willey and their team of 10 seamstresses. But this year Old Town announced they are not taking any further orders and is winding down the main business – news greeted with anguish among their regular clients, including myself.

“We’re 68, we are tired,” Willey says. “We made a rod for our own backs because we’ve micromanaged things to the point it’s worn us out.” Each had clearly defined roles – Willey dealing with customers and ordering fabric, Brown the designing and making. In fact, he was the only person who knew how to operate the buttonhole sewing machine so he did them all himself, for years.

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Woman who lost unborn baby after Stuart Worby’s ‘callous’ actions tells court: ‘This pain will never leave me’

A “callous” and “selfish” man who gave abortion drugs to a pregnant woman without her knowledge, causing her to lose her unborn baby, has been jailed for 12 years.

Stuart Worby, 40, crushed a tablet into orange juice that the woman drank in 2022.

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Swedish energy giant Vattenfall says costs have climbed 40% due to rise in global gas prices

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The government’s green energy ambitions have been dealt a blow after plans for a giant offshore windfarm off the Norfolk coast ground to a halt due to spiralling supply chain costs and rising interest rates.

The Swedish energy giant Vattenfall said it would stop work on the multibillion pound Norfolk Boreas windfarm, designed to power the equivalent of 1.5m British homes, because it was no longer profitable.

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Celebrity chef takes recipe she first tried at a Norfolk chippy to her restaurant at Norwich City FC

She is known as the no-nonsense celebrity chef who gives sensible advice on improving staple dishes.

But Delia Smith showed her taste for the adventurous this week by adding a deep-fried jam sandwich to the menu of one of her restaurants – after trying it in a fish and chip shop.

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Analysis of property titles reveals extraordinary extent of royal footprint in north Norfolk

Jason Marple’s lawn is mowed into sharp stripes. But halfway from his back door to the neighbouring field, the strips stop, and the back half is an overgrown tangle. He doesn’t own that part. King Charles III does. “I’m not mowing his half. I wish he’d mow it more often,” Marple jokingly complained.

The back of Marple’s garden is a very small part of the new king’s Sandringham country estate, in north Norfolk, where the royals traditionally celebrate Christmas.

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The granting of Unesco world heritage site status would give these habitats the recognition they deserve

In the 17th century, when the first large-scale attempts were being made to drain the Fens, an anonymous protest ballad imagined the creaturely resentment coursing through the waters of the wetlands. “For they do mean all Fens to drain, and waters overmaster,” laments a sea lamprey in Powte’s Complaint . “All will be dry, and we must die, ’cause Essex calves want pasture”.

The local protests were in vain. Since 1700, according to research published this year, the UK has lost more than 75% of its wetlands as land has been drained for development and farming. The Industrial Revolution inevitably accelerated the destruction of terrain that was viewed simply as wasteland. But the tide may finally be turning for habitats that should be valued as 21st century environmental assets, crucial both to preserving biodiversity and protecting Britain’s coastline.

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