Great Yarmouth News
Friday 27th August 2010
Boy racers upset Pleasure Beach area
People using Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach have been attacked by paintball pellets, had lasers shone in their eyes and been shot at with BB guns. The problem comes as nearby families are complaining at noise and disturbances from boy racers who ga...
Monday 23rd August 2010
Casino licence decision next September
The winner of the race to operate Great Yarmouth’s large new casino looks set to be announced in a year’s time. Applications for the licence to run the casino will be invited next month with a closing date at the end of next January. Four opera...
Monday 23rd August 2010
A&E wants to filter out minor cases
A doctor could be used to filter out patients and ease the pressure on the accident and emergency department at the James Paget University Hospital. It follows a pilot project in the winter when a GP was asked to check out people attending the eme...
Thursday 19th August 2010
Energy firm’s deal should treble turnover
UK controls company 3sun has acquired a 75per cent shareholding in Dawson Energy as it chases more business in the renewables industry. It is the first acquisition of the Great Yarmouth-based company, launched in 2008, and is projected - along with...
Tuesday 17th August 2010
Help for those hooked on gambling
Around 400 people in the Great Yarmouth area are thought to have a serious gambling problem. Two of the main reasons for rising numbers are online gambling games and fixed odds betting terminals in bookmakers. The number of young people aged be...
Thursday 12th August 2010
£70,000 boost for new boxing centre
A £70,000 award will allow Great Yarmouth’s Kingfisher Amateur Boxing Club to take the biggest step in its long history when it moves into a former Gorleston dance hall at the end of the year. The money from the Amateur Boxing Association of...
Thursday 5th August 2010
Decision soon on heliport future
Great Yarmouth could hear more about the future of its heliport by the end of the month. Controlling company CHC is awaiting the results of a lengthy review over whether to move its fleet of five helicopters and 70 staff from the North Denes site ...
Thursday 5th August 2010
Coopers store to close
Coopers, one of Great Yarmouth’s oldest companies, is closing its ironmongers and DIY shop at North Market Road this month. All eight staff who work there will be re-located to the company’s large Harfreys Industrial Estate store, some of them wor...
Wednesday 4th August 2010
Subsea firm opens new base at port
An Aberdeen-based subsea construction firm for the marine renewables sector is to establish new premises at Great Yarmouth’s Eastport UK. The Subocean Group will set up a workshop and equipment store at the port and will use both the outer harbour...
Tuesday 3rd August 2010
£300,000 funding bid to restore bridge
An action group hopes to secure up to £300,000 funding to restore the dilapidated Vauxhall Bridge in Great Yarmouth A structural survey will first resolve whether the bridge can be fully restored or whether it would make more sense to demolish it....
