While many were at home, unwrapping presents and putting the sprouts on, over 1400 people descended on Eaton park to take part in the Christmas day parkrun.

1360 runners crossed the finish line after running, jogging or walking the 5k and were supported by the 49 volunteers who made the event happen.

On Wednesday 18th December, hundreds of local residents joined Dereham Town Band for the Christmas Carol singalong at the Eaton Park bandstand.

Organised by Friends of Eaton Park, the event also included a Christmas fair in the café, with mince pies and mulled wine in plentiful supply!

Cllr James Wright commented, "There was much festive cheer, and even the cold weather didn't put people off singing along! Thanks to Friends of Eaton Park for organising, and to the Dereham Town Band for providing the excellent music."

James Wright, the Lib Dem group leader at City Hall, is standing for the Liberal Democrats in Norwich South in the likely inevitable general election.

James, who has represented Eaton ward since 2010, is currently chair of the council scrutiny committee and contested the Norwich South seat in 2017.

Before closing over 480 local branches in the past four years, Barclays assured its customers that they would still be able to do all their banking at their local Post Office. It was even argued that this could be a boost for local shops with Post Office counters as it would bring more customers through their doors.

The local election results are in, and I would like to thank everyone who voted Lib Dem in Norwich.

Although we were not able to add any new councillors this year, we are now ahead of the Conservative's as Norwich's third party for the first time since 2007.

There is much to build on for the next set of elections in 2020.

It was a day of buses, trains and automobiles for Norwich Lib Dem activists making their way to London to join the upwards of 1m who took part in the #PutItToThePeople march.

Lib Dem Councillor James Wright took to Twitter to set out his thoughts at the end of the day.

Lib Dems back residents in road safety campaign

The Eaton Lib Dem councillor team are backing local resident Kate Heley in her call for a crossing on Unthank Road near Judges Walk, and have met with her to look at options.

Kate said, "This is an area that is frequently crossed, especially by students crossing from the Eaton Park area to Newmarket road or by families going to Eaton Park. Putting a crossing there would make that area much safer as there is no nearby crossing, and encourage walking."

The Liberal Democrats have slammed the Conservative Government for their "hapless treatment" of EU citizens after the Home Office released guidance on the new EU Settlement Scheme.

The Home Office has confirmed that for the duration of the trial period, until 30 March, EU citizens applying to stay in the UK must either use an Android phone or travel to one of 13 'document scanning' centres instead.

Activists from Norwich Lib Dems headed to London this afternoon to take part in the demonstration at Westminster ahead of the meaningful vote. It was generally good natured, but loud, with both camps making their feelings known! See the bottom of this article for some photos.

Update:
I have now uploaded some video of the Leave bells...