Town and country

A report by Bob Wellings on the seaside town famous for its exclusivity. Can Frinton cope with changes like the building of new flats on the sea front?

An eel catcher on the Norfolk Broads pulls out his net from the water and displays his catch.

Mr Fraser explains why it has taken nearly 30 years to achieve.

A former gardener at Alexander Fleming’s country retreat in Barton Mills, Suffolk offers his personal memories of the man who discovered penicillin.

The last in a long line of wherry men talks about his and his father’s life working on the Wherry Albion, in the days when it was still used as a trading boat on the Norfolk Broads.

A documentary about a whelk fishing business at Wells Next the Sea, North Norfolk, where as well as going out to sea the fishermen make their own nets, tar the pots and boil the whelks.

A 90-year-old woman vividly remembers the day when Essex experienced the strongest earthquake ever to strike mainland Britain.

A new school opens and Churchill College is under construction. Visitors and residents talk about Cambridge as it was, how it is now, and their opinions of current undergraduates.

The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds is reputed to be Britain’s smallest pub. In this report, the landlord doesn’t make life easy for the Anglia reporter who is attempting to find out what makes the pub special.

The new library in the centre of Norwich is about to open. Bob Wellings takes a tour of the modern building which will offer facilities and resources unrivalled by any other public library in East Anglia.