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Attack on communications mast at centre of anti-terror probe took out radio signals

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16.10.2025

Specialist police officers have been investigating damage caused to the Tacolneston transmitting station, which is used to broadcast television and radio across the region, on September 29.

They have arrested a 49-year-old woman from Norwich, Martha Goddard, who is due to appear at the Old Bailey later this month, charged with criminal damage over the incident.

Martha Goddard, seen at a protest against the NDR in 2007(Image: Newsquest)

The Tacolneston transmission mast(Image: Bruno Brown)

Norwich Forum(Image: John Fielding)

She has also been charged with similar offences at Norwich's Forum - which houses the BBC and the Millennium Library - as well as at two Starbucks outlets and a McDonald's in the city.

More details have now emerged about the Tacolneston incident, which........

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