Inspiring stories

• Thrive meetings on Zoom – how businesses are meeting in virtual groups to support each other through Coronavirus

  Lorna Burroughes from Thrive describes using Zoom for networking and shares her tips from working from home When Norfolk went into lockdown every business owner felt the impact And for Lorna Burroughes, founder of the Norwich-based Thrive networking group, it meant switching almost overnight to online video meetings instead of the traditional face-to-face sessions that the group’s 70 odd members were used to. Instead of attending weekly gatherings at the

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• Cold War 3.0 is bringing British and Dutch forces closer together and Brexit won’t stop that insists Dutch military chief

  As a young marine Jeff R Mac Mootry trained with the Royal Marines in Scotland. Ties between British and Dutch marine forces had always been close – British and Dutch officers are attached to units in each other’s countries. And the two nations have stood “shoulder to shoulder” since a joint operation to capture Gibralter in 1704. After joining the Marine Corps in August 1985, it was the Cold War

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• Happy Mother’s Day Agnes Lowthorpe – you kept your family together and we kept your name

  Agnes Lowthorpe was only 45 when she died She was a mother to six children, and lived for all her life in an area of Norwich known as Pockthorpe – the bit from Bull Close then around Barrack Street up to Heathgate. In 1861 she was living with her parents in Granby Row, and she later got married to George Lowthorpe at St James Church on the corner of Barrack

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• Meeting the King of the Netherlands – a modern monarch with plenty to say, but don’t quote him on that

  A meeting with the King of the Netherlands, really? How do you prepare for a meeting with the King the Netherlands? *(see end) Dutch King Willem-Alexander stands well over 6ft tall, and heartily deploys a strong, firm handshake, to the UK journalists into the Pozzi Room at the Noordeinde Palace in the Hague. Here is a king who doesn’t appear to stand on ceremony. Sit down he says, please help

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• How our hurricane honeymoon inspired our new tech start-up Vrume.co

  After escaping the devastation of Hurricane Irma, Lutz and Madison Lai headed to Europe to rethink their lives and create their tech start-up Vrume.co. If Lutz and Madison Lai succeed in their venture Vrume.co then the destructive power of hurricane Irma will have played a part. And  a UK stop off in Norwich, UK, will also be a footnote in their story. The couple, both in their 20s, met while

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• Portfolio – an interview with former Norwich South MP Simon Wright

  Interviewing is one of the key skills I deploy in my work from journalism articles to content marketing pieces. Here is an abridged interview with former Norwich South MP Simon Wright from an original blog published on  www.runnorfolk.com  Simon Wright pulled off a stunning victory in the General Election of 2010 to seize the Norwich South seat for the Liberal Democrats from Charles Clarke by 310 votes. But five years

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