{"id":253186,"date":"2025-11-09T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253186\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:23:08","slug":"boxing-coach-and-lifesavers-get-great-yarmouth-freedom-of-borough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253186\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing coach and lifesavers get Great Yarmouth Freedom of Borough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A boxing coach and people dedicated to saving lives have been presented with Freedom of the Borough for their community work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Yarmouth Borough Council voted to bestow the honour to Jayne Biggs of defibrillator charity Heart2Heart Norfolk; Hugh Sturzaker, a retired surgeon who became lead governor at the James Paget Hospital, and 87-year-old Cecil Page, who founded the Kingfisher Amateur Boxing Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also presented a scroll to the local branch of The Samaritans, a charity that supports people in crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carl Annison, mayor of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, said: &#8220;The contribution they have all made, and continue to make, to our community is an inspiration to all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boxing coach and people dedicated to saving lives have been presented with Freedom of the Borough for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-253186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}