Fakenham

So it was a real pleasure last night to get a phone call from Norman Lamb, MP for North Norfolk, to tell me that my legacy lives on in Fakenham and to thank me for getting Fakenham in to such a good state for the Lib Dems.

My political legacy lives on Norfolk Blogger 2009

But when I lived in Fakenham I was always surprised to see US jets screaming very low and very fast across Fakenham, going in to steep climbs (needing an afterburner and making lots of noise) and failing to do what the RAF routinely do, which is to fly around towns.

Archive 2009-08-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

I was, for four years, a district councillor in Fakenham, and during the period of my political involvement in the town we swept the board politically.

Archive 2009-06-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

But when I lived in Fakenham I was always surprised to see US jets screaming very low and very fast across Fakenham, going in to steep climbs (needing an afterburner and making lots of noise) and failing to do what the RAF routinely do, which is to fly around towns.

Action at last over low flying US jets Norfolk Blogger 2009

I remember when I was a councillor in Fakenham (North Norfolk) that a new social housing scheme was the subject of some criticism from a few local people who went around town telling everyone that the local council was filling the houses with Portuguese immigrant workers.

Archive 2009-01-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

So it was a real pleasure last night to get a phone call from Norman Lamb, MP for North Norfolk, to tell me that my legacy lives on in Fakenham and to thank me for getting Fakenham in to such a good state for the Lib Dems.

Archive 2009-06-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

I was, for four years, a district councillor in Fakenham, and during the period of my political involvement in the town we swept the board politically.

My political legacy lives on Norfolk Blogger 2009

I was able to see this at first hand when the applied to build a store in Fakenham when at a planning meeting and a town meeting their spokesman sought to rubbish statistics that failed to make Tesco's case, indeed they questions the validity of the surveys and the reports, but at the same time took some elements of the reports (but didn't credit them) in order to justify their store.

Archive 2009-01-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

Another full day out on the stump, starting in Fakenham and ending in Aylmerton.

Days Like These 2005

Thought we would have to cancel tonight's debate in Fakenham but in the end all the snow went, although it's back with a vengeance as I type this.

Snowy Day 2005