The health secretary’s office has refused to accept a petition signed by more than 6,000 people to build a new hospital for Norfolk. The roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn is in desperate need of replacement and is currently being supported by almost 200 metal poles. Problems with its roof have been known since at least 2016 and millions of pounds have already been spent repairing it, but the hospital has warned that it poses a “direct risk to life” and needs a complete

When trust breaks down between tenants and landlords the consequences can be devastating. On day two of our look into concerns over the poor state of some rented homes, we visit one block of flats in Lowestoft. A few metres from Lowestoft train station is a sky blue, three storey house. You would walk past 160 Denmark Road without taking a second look. But the inside raises questions about how those in hardship are housed using public money. The front door to the property has been broken for

When Arlene and Garry Todd opened their pension statement in 2015 they thought there was a typo. Their account had halved in value; £63,000 was gone. Two years of sleepless nights followed, while they waited to see if they would get their money back – and if the financial advisors who scammed them would be brought to justice. That day finally came on Tuesday when their financial advisors, brothers Alan and Russell Taylor pleaded guilty to fraud. The Todds, from Jannys Close, Aylsham, were on

More than 3,500 people needing help in Norfolk and Suffolk are waiting for care, including one couple who were separated for five months. In a sign of the challenge faced by the adult social care system, the number of people on a Norfolk County Council list needing held has quadrupled since 2012. In one case a couple married for 48 years was forced to live apart for more than five months because of a shortage of carers. When Sally Goleby, 69, was taken into an Aylsham care home in June last y

Almost 11 years of construction work, the destruction of wildlife, billions of pounds of investment and the creation of hundreds of jobs - what is the impact on Norfolk of building the world’s biggest offshore wind farms? Three wind farms with enough energy to power more than four million homes – the equivalent of five Sizewell nuclear power stations – are planned off the Norfolk coast. They will be the biggest offshore wind farms in the world and need two trenches up to 60 kilometres long to

On farmland at the old RAF Downham Market site a vision of the future was meant to take shape, employing 6,000 people and finding cures to deadly diseases. With claims of Chinese backers, interest from US corporations and a promise of data science jobs, the Centre for Advanced Knowledge Engineering (C-Fake) pledged much needed investment in Downham Market. It quickly gained support from councils and business leaders after being put forward in 2014. But according to those involved in the proje

You should be able to get 4G on your mobile phone outdoors almost everywhere in Norfolk, according to a map from regulator Ofcom. TOM BRISTOW and DOMINIC GILBERT put it to the test. The deadline is dawning for phone companies to improve signal coverage across the UK - and address one of the biggest causes of complaints we hear from readers. Our survey of 1,300 readers in October last year showed poor coverage had caused 86pc of people problems, with 40pc rating their coverage as one out of 10.

Ten days after the prime minister announced an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal, one Norfolk victim speaks out from his hospital bed. The inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal has already hit a roadblock - just days after it was announced by the prime minister. Theresa May ordered a full inquiry last week into how contaminated blood products which infected thousands of people with Hepatitis C and HIV were given to patients in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The move was welcomed by c

A cache of emails sent between council chiefs about an investigation into how children were wrongly removed from foster carers in Norfolk has cast doubt over the investigation’s independence. The emails were published after a Freedom of Information request from North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb who said the dossier “completely confirmed” his fear that an inquiry into the historic treatment of foster carers in the county published last year, called the Parker Review – which was meant to be independen