REGIONAL FOCUS and LOCAL INTEREST GUIDES in and around NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ESSEX and the NORFOLK BROADS in EAST ANGLIA UK.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance was officially launched by champion jockey Frankie Dettori in the Summer of 2000 at the Millennium Grandstand at Newmarket Racecourse. The service began flying in January 2001 and in the early days the service was only able to operate one day a week, but within five months Anglia One was flying five days a week.

Newmarket, as they say, is not a one horse town. In fact, Newmarket probably has more horses than any other town in the country for this is the headquarters of British flat racing and has been since the time of Charles II . Even before that, Charles’s grandfather, James I, was a visitor, using the area for hunting and hawking and so was his father, Charles I...

One summer day in 1992, Gloria Davey was on a WI ramble, treading the footpaths south-east of Swaffham, when the party came to the deserted ruin of Houghton church. The roof of the nave had collapsed, the tower was enshrouded in ivy and the churchyard was a jungle of undergrowth...

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields brings its hugely popular Family Music Day to Harleston Primary School on 6th May. Bring along the whole family for some hands-on musical fun. Meet the animals in the instruments zoo, have a go at playing an instrument or even make one to take home.

It looks like a smugglers' coast and once it was, all small creeks and communities where much could go unnoticed and fishing was the legitimate mask of business. These days on Norfolk's northern rim, tourism has replaced smuggling but the fishing - now mainly shellfishing - remains.

Here is a tale of a lost art. It is about the passing of a style of building decoration which lasted two or three hundred years and seemed established, only then to fade away like another mere fad. Pargeting is decorative plasterwork. While the term sometimes relates to both interior and exterior work, it most commonly denotes the latter...

Whitlingham Outdoor Education Centre is a new purpose built outdoor activities centre in Whitlingham, Trowse on the outskirts of Norwich, specialising in teaching Sailing, Windsurfing, Paddlesport, Sculling, Diving and many more water activities.

In an erstwhile goat shed in Banham, in deepest south Norfolk, Tony Carter is making coffins. And he is very busy. These coffins are not your ordinary chipboard and veneer jobs for which some in the funeral business would charge an arm and a leg...

If you go down to the woods today, specifically the woods of the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, you might be in for a big surprise. For there, in a glade, you will find a three metre high wooden sculpture of St Felix of Burgundy who brought Christianity to East Anglia in 600 AD...