North Norfolk Radio - News in the North Norfolk area

Over 700 pupils in Norfolk missed more than 63 school sessions in the autumn term last year.

The figures have been released this week by the government.

Norfolk is the third worst for unauthorised absences, behind Hertfordshire and Essex.

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Time's running out if you want to comment on plans for gypsie and traveller sites here in Norfolk.

A consultation's drawing to a close and the deadline for comments is two weeks today.

The Governments proposing fifteen pitches for each Council district.

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Thailand's Prime Minister is to fly to Burma this weekend, trying to get the regime to let in more aid for cyclone victims.

The UN and Western countries are pleading with the country to accept international help.

It's six days since the storm hit the Asian country - killing up to a hundred-thousand people.

Disease is now taking hold.

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Teenagers and young people are resorting to drink and drugs to boost their prospects of sleeping with someone.

A Europe wide study's found a third of men and a quarter of women admit to getting drunk before having sex.

And there's been a massive rise in sixteen to thirty-five year-olds taking cocaine.

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Hundreds of visitors are expected to come to North Norfolk tonight for Dereham's music festival.

There are a range of acts - everything from classical to pop.

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It's emerged women do an average of two-hundred-and-fifteen miles of ironing during their lifetime.

That's the equivalent of just over eight marathons.

Men manage just seventy-three miles - and a quarter of them confess to getting their mums to press their clothes.

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There's more misery for first time buyers - Alliance and Leicester has become the latest lender to "charge customers more" with small deposits.

It's also putting up its other mortgage deals despite the Bank of England's decision yesterday to keep interest rates on hold at five per cent.

The move adds an extra nine-hundred pounds a year to the cost of repaying a typical loan.

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Premier League clubs are beginning to offload unwanted players just days before the end of the season.

Sunderland have released four, while relegated Derby have told defender, Andy Todd, he can leave Pride Park.

Meanwhile the Liverpool boss says Peter Crouch can go, but only if someone meets their fifteen-million pound asking price.

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