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Focus of North Creake for the EDP Norfolk Magazine. Creake Abbey Studios.

The wonders of west Norfolk

International attention is focused on west Norfolk this summer as the amazing Houghton Revisited exhibition brings thousands of art lovers to the area.

The exhibition, of priceless, peerless masterpieces by Rubens and Rembrandt, Velazquez and Van Dyck, is set to attract people from all over the world – but it is only part of the wonderful offering that the west of the county for visitors from far and near.

Julian Taylor, new show director of the Royal Norfolk Show on his Starston farm. Photograph Simon Parker

Getting the show on the road

Tradition, continuity and a welcoming smile are the watch-words Julian Taylor brings to the Royal Norfolk Show this year.

Greg Smith, the new chief executive of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, at his favourite place, Norwich Cathedral. Picture: Denise Bradley

Home land

As a child, Greg Smith longed to be a farmer. In his teens he had holiday jobs on farms, looked after his own rescue hen and went on to a degree involving agriculture, but he never actually farmed.

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