Now, at least one part of the Regent Theatre on Regent Road in Great Yarmouth could reopen to the public – as a food bank.

The Grade II listed building closed in 2016 and that spring was bought for £215,000 by a small London-based church group.

Since then, the venue has shown few outward signs of life and many in the town have assumed it was abandoned.

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But behind closed doors, the church group - Global Miracle Gospel Ministries - has been........

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