From a small Sunday paper round to a major business at the beating heart of the city, Norwich stalwart John Howell built an empire from newspapers.

As a team, John and his wife Sylvia ran one of the most successful newsagents in Norwich out of a small shop on Magdalen Road- which they built from virtually nothing.

In the 1970s, John had almost 40 paperboys and girls delivering around 1,400 copies of the Eastern Evening News - as the Norwich Evening News was then called - six days a week in a nearly non-stop operation.

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John Howell outside his shop in 1984 as papers are being unloaded for delivery (Image: Submitted)

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