Great Yarmouth News
Tuesday 9th March 2010
More modern policing for Yarmouth
A Police Investigation Centre (PIC) earmarked for Great Yarmouth will herald a new era for the force in the town. The building will include a modern custody suite to replace outdated police cells both in Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Once it is ready...
Friday 5th March 2010
New move to smarten railway station
Railway chiefs have promised to help the campaign to smarten up Great Yarmouth station. Train operator National Express East Anglia said it had various improvements in the pipeline including better signs, some plants and flowers, a new queuing sys...
Friday 5th March 2010
Town centre’s fight against crime heralded
Great Yarmouth’s teamwork in fighting town centre crime was held up as an example to the rest of the country this week. Town centre manager Jonathan Newman told a national conference of the partnership approach to ridding the town's shopping centr...
Wednesday 3rd March 2010
New vessels planned by Seajacks
Great Yarmouth offshore company Seajacks is looking at a multi-million pound investment to add two or more giant self-propelled jack-up liftboats to its fleet. The decision to at least double the fleet follows the sale of the firm to the American ...
Thursday 18th February 2010
Mardi Gras tosses aside weather worries
Hundreds of people defied heavy rain and took to the streets for Great Yarmouth’s first Mardi Gras on Pancake Day. The King Street area enjoyed a multi-cultural atmosphere with a Brazilian style parade, street entertainers, and diverse section sof...
Monday 15th February 2010
Cabbies to help drive tourist initiative
Great Yarmouth’s 600-strong fleet of taxi drivers could become a driving force in promoting the town’s tourism. The aim would be to encourage them to become mobile tourist information centres and to ‘talk up’ some of the forthcoming attractions to...
Monday 15th February 2010
Fun ways to fight obesity
Parents in Great Yarmouth are being urged to encourage their youngsters to become fitter and more active to combat the high levels of obesity in the town. A quarter of four and five-year-olds in Yarmouth are classed as either overweight or obese. ...
Sunday 14th February 2010
Rick calls tune at school opening
Veteran keyboard ace Rick Wakeman officially opened a £2m school of music, drama and dance at Great Yarmouth College last week. He was joined by fellow keyboard star Dave Greenslade to unveil the building, which houses music and dance studios, re...
Thursday 11th February 2010
Yarmouth company bought for £130m
Great Yarmouth-based offshore company Seajacks has been bought by an American private equity firm in a £130m deal. Riverstone Holdings, a New York-based specialist investor in energy industry companies is to put substantial new capital into Seajac...
Tuesday 9th February 2010
Doubts over Yarmouth store’s future
There are doubts over the future of the retailer who took over the empty Woolworth’s store in Great Yarmouth last year. The Ethel Austin company called in administrators because of the continued poor economy and poor trading in the bad weather. ...
