Sweet Beet, Tweet and Bonne Nuit

Good news for local farmers who feared fines for failing factory quotas of 95% annual allocation of sugar beet. British Sugar won't enforce future decrease in contracted tonnage after much of the local beet has been deemed unprocessible. 

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Congratulations to local girl Ruby Kerridge who has used Twitter to hopefully get the X Factor's Aiden Grimshaw to perform a gig in Norfolk. Known as a Twitition, a portmanteau word or blend of Twitter and petition, Ruby already has 1000+ Twititioners.

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And at last there was some sunshine today, right to the end of the day as the sun disappears behind South Pickenham Hall.

Beet, Berney, Burning and Build Ban

With the mild and dry weather set to continue, the annual sugar beet harvest race has started in Norfolk. Rude awakenings for the next month or so as the huge lorries thunder around the rural highways with or without their sweet load.

A new Norfolk forum, the Norfolk Mardler (that's Norfolk Gossiper to outsiders), led me to what must be the smallest railway station in the country.

Berney Arms railway station is 3.5 miles from the nearest road and is the most remote station in Norfolk. It is only accessible by rail, boat, on foot or on horseback and is 5 miles west of Great Yarmouth. Trains will only stop on request for you to visit the English Heritage windmill or the RSPB nature reserve.

Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service had another busy day, so did the reporter who posted this riveting story.

Good news for the nearby Dunhams with a planning reprieve for the huge sub station next to this small settlement, that I reported on in March, to connect the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm to the National Grid. Warwick Energy may well appeal, the associated cable laying was given approval.