Wiveton

And down at Wiveton Hall, owner Desmond MacCarthy is only too aware of the joy such weather brings. Des is clearly having a great time, whether he's tidying up in the kitchen garden - "it's always beautiful here. It was used as a compound for prisoners ...

Desmond MacCarthy stars in Normal for Norfolk, a fly-on-the-wall documentary following the farmer as he struggles to come up with money-making schemes so he can maintain his decaying manor house, Wiveton Hall near Holt. But what really caught ...

I don't think there's much danger of things getting too professional, or 21st century, at Wiveton Hall. Still room – and rooms – to muddle along here on the Norfolk coast. Thankfully. And God it's lovely, isn't it? At the age of eight or so I didn't ...

MacCarthy has lived at Wiveton Hall near Holt all his life. Many such houses were sold to developers decades ago but MacCarthy has tried, heroically, to stave off the march of progress while innovating with his dwindling resources. Wiveton's got a ...

The series follows his battle to make the Wiveton Hall estate profitable, and his inventiveness and business nous wouldn't be out of place on Dragon's Den – although his tweed jacket might. 2. He's an all-rounder. Desmond doesn't leave it to the ...

Crews were called to the Wiveton Bell pub on Blakeney Road, Wiveton, at 6.24am following reports of a kitchen fire. Three appliances attended, from Holt, Sheringham and Cromer, and crews used hose reel jets to extinguish the fire wearing breathing ...