<strong>By Ian Bred, Norfolk Correspondent

The county of Norfolk was celebrating today at the arrival of Ceefax, a new-fangled piece of communications technology.</strong>

Locals were glued to their television sets for hours, watching the pages of text information appear quite slowly.



Even though not many people in Norfolk can read, the Ceefax service, provided by BBC East exclusively for Norfolk, is seen as a huge step forward in bringing the county up to speed with the rest of Britain.

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Locals are being told they can now see news, the weather, quizzes and even football results more or less in real time - although they have to wait for the Ceefax service to cycle through ten pages in rotation before the scores actually update.

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"It's a giant technological leap for a place like Norfolk," said BBC East' head of Ceefax, Bon Scott. "Television has only recently arrived in the county, and now those lucky enough to have a set can enjoy our text-based information service."

Local man Bubba Spuckler, who lives in Downham Market with his sister and their eight children, said: "We've been gathering around my uncle's TV and pointing at Ceefax a lot. We have no idea what it means but I am sure there is trickery at work."

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