Charity Chicken Contribution

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Maxwell, local bird man Fabian Eagle's oldest, has donated two chickens to the spring ball associated with the Wayland Show to be held at Lynford Hall in Munford on Saturday. They will be auctioned off in aid of the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

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Sure one of the Eagle clan would know the perennial question of which came first...

Air Ambulance Beer Boosts Charity Coffers

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the East Anglian Air Ambulance, Suffolk micro Mill Green Brewery is to donate 10 pence for every pint of its special Lifesaver ale to the charity.

Keep up the good work, both of you. Just don't attract the services of one by consuming too much of the wares of the other!

Norfolk has a thriving brewing tradition too, as this CAMRA list illustrates, and many local pubs, like the Blue Lion in North Pickenham, serve local beers to the locals.

Toilet Turmoil, Sub Station Site and Air Ambulance Arrival

Yesterday was Groundhog Day in the USA.

Yesterday was Groundhog Day in the USA.

And déjà vu it is in the EDP today. Watton council warn of a shortfall in funding as their £100,000 refurbed public toilets are repeatedly vandalised, reminiscent of  Swaffham's water closet Waterloo. Just how do you spend £100,000 refurbing some sanitary ware anyhow?

Just to the north of the Pickenhams, in Little Dunham, villagers are up in arms about a proposed electricity sub station. Not one of those humming brick sheds behind the local corner shop, but a 22 acre construction on a 42 acre site around 150 metres from the nearest dwelling. The proposed site will be the terminus for 45km of underground cabling from the Dudgeon Wind Farm landfall at Weybourne.

A short diversion via Little Cressingham yesterday, on my return from the south, as the B1065 was closed and the air ambulance called to assist at a traffic accident at Hilborough.

The injured lorry driver, who was transporting railway sleepers, was airlifted to Addenbrookes in Cambridge by this charity funded emergency resource. The East Anglian Air Ambulance needs £3million a year to run two helicopters 365/24/7 and provide ongoing training. That's about thirty toilet refurbs.