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Gaining skills: Overcoming the barriers in Great Yarmouth

By Sheila Oxtoby | 22 April 2024

Great Yarmouth's skills and employability strategy will provide a positive, collaborative framewo...

Partnership working is making major projects deliverable

By Sheila Oxtoby | 13 March 2024

Great Yarmouth's core spending power has more than halved between 2010-11 and 2023-24, but it ha...

Facing up to the housing challenge

By Sheila Oxtoby | 29 January 2024

Sheila Oxtoby sets out how Great Yarmouth BC is approaching the housing challenges facing much of...

Challenging times

By Sheila Oxtoby | 27 November 2023

Behind the headlines on finances, councils are grappling with protecting services and regeneratin...

The tourism economy is at the centre of life in the borough

By Sheila Octoby | 04 September 2023

The summer invariably threw last-minute challenges at Great Yarmouth BC as it supports its touris...

We're homing in on housing in Great Yarmouth

By Sheila Oxtoby | 17 July 2023

The biggest single expansion in council homes in Great Yarmouth for almost 20 years is a sign of ...

Tapping into the talent on our doorstep

By Sheila Oxtoby | 05 June 2023

Great Yarmouth BC's work on supported internships dovetails with its determination to have an inc...

Partnership delivers forward thinking regeneration

By Sheila Oxtoby | 25 April 2023

A new £21.4m campus - a partnership project between Great Yarmouth BC, Norfolk CC and the New A...

A safe end to a week-long drama in Great Yarmouth

By Sheila Oxtoby | 14 March 2023

The operation in Great Yarmouth to make a bomb safe was, to put it mildly, complex, says Sheila O...

Potential investment from a Norfolk deal would be a huge boost

By Sheila Oxtoby | 23 January 2023

Sheila Oxtoby says the county deal for Norfolk might not be the one everyone would have liked or ...