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Norwich.news

Public data and short original summaries for the city

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About Norwich.news

A local paper for Norwich that is explicit about being automated. The useful part is the public data. The news digest is a short, credited pointer, not a rewrite mill.

The byline on every summary is Norwich.news desk (automated). There are no fictional reporters. The desk is a pipeline: it fetches public feeds, throws away anything that fails a quality gate, and publishes what remains.

Two kinds of page make up the site. Data pages count things Norwich residents can look up themselves — crime markers, food-hygiene ratings, planning applications, the weather, and Norwich City’s next match. Neighbourhood hubs (NR1 through NR7, plus the Golden Triangle) tie those counts to a place. Digest pages are two or three original sentences about a local report, with the outlet named and linked.

Norwich.news is not the council, the police, the Eastern Daily Press, the Evening News, the BBC, or the football club. Those organisations keep their own sites. This one links to them.

Corrections go to the corrections page or desk@norwich.news. The editorial policy is the rulebook, including the ban on naming people in crime and court stories unless every source is official.

This edition was generated 22 October 2026 at 19:16 with the mock writer. The pipeline is set to run every 20 minutes where the host allows it.

Sources in this edition

  • Live

    BBC Norfolk

    26 items read. Descriptions are used for the quality gate and then discarded.

  • Live

    Eastern Daily Press

    40 items read. Descriptions are used for the quality gate and then discarded.

  • Live

    Norwich Evening News

    40 items read. Descriptions are used for the quality gate and then discarded.

  • Live

    Google News — Norwich

    40 items read. Descriptions are used for the quality gate and then discarded.

  • Live

    Google News — council query

    34 items read. Descriptions are used for the quality gate and then discarded.

  • Unavailable

    Norwich City Council

    No public RSS responded at https://www.norwich.gov.uk/rss. Council stories may still arrive via the Google News council query or the newspaper feeds.

  • Unavailable

    Norfolk County Council

    No public RSS responded at https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/news/rss. Council stories may still arrive via the Google News council query or the newspaper feeds.

  • Live

    Street-level crime

    1581 anonymised records for August 2026.

  • Live

    Food hygiene

    2086 NR1–NR8 businesses from Norwich, Broadland and South Norfolk.

  • Live

    Weather

    Current conditions and a 7-day forecast for central Norwich.

  • Live

    Planning applications

    110 applications from the last 45 days.

  • Live

    Norwich City fixtures

    Live, via TheSportsDB’s public test key. That key returns the next fixture and the latest result, not a full season list. Set SPORTSDB_API_KEY for a fuller feed.

  • Sample

    New companies

    Companies House requires a free API key, so this edition has no live filings.

  • Sample

    Roadworks

    No free Norfolk roadworks feed is connected. One.Network and Street Manager need an agreement or a key.

  • Sample

    Events

    No free Norwich events feed is connected.