Prince George to attend nursery school in Norfolk before the end of January
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A dog groomer from Norfolk has been helping homeless people by washing their pets for free.
Kerry Davis organised the event in Norwich city centre on Thursday night.
The dogs were washed, groomed and checked over by vets, while the owners were given food and a hot drink.
A dog groomer from Norfolk has been helping homeless people by washing their dogs for free.
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Dan Holley
BBC Look East weather
Clear intervals give way to overnight cloud with mist developing later and patchy light rain or drizzle possible in places.
Breezy with a moderate southwesterly, but becoming warmer through the night as temperatures climb towards dawn.
Maximum temperature 14C (57F).
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Emergency responders are on standby for one of the busiest nights of the year for partygoers in Norwich's nightclub district.
Alcohol sales have peaked in recent years on the Friday before Christmas and the SOS Bus in Norwich regards it as a key date for their help.
Hayley Gerrard from the SOS Bus, which supports people in distress on a night out, said people got carried away and had the one drink that tipped them over the edge.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Former health minister and North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb has written to the East of England Ambulance Service, external criticising plans to staff ambulances with two student paramedics.
At present trainees are paired-up individually with a qualified paramedic but the MP said the change to put two on emergency calls could put crews in an impossible situation.
The proposal is part of a review but no decision had been made, the ambulance service said.
Amy Barratt
BBC Radio Norfolk
Prince George is to attend a local west Norfolk nursery that uses an informal method of learning through children taking part in activities.
Image source, Anthony Devlin/PA WireFrom January he will attend one of 600 nursery schools in the UK, external that use a teaching method developed by Italian Maria Montessori.
The method is based on the belief that within each person is untapped potential and the whole child should develop naturally up to the age of six - a period when children have the greatest capacity to learn.
Here are the tea-time headlines:
Rob Butler
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich's Darren "Demolition Man" Webster is through to the second round of the Darts World Championships.
Webster beat Scotland's John Henderson by three sets to one at London's Alexandra Palace. He could now face World Number One Michael Van Gerwen in round two.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe west Norfolk nursery that Prince George will attend from next month uses an Italian teaching method.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe two-year-old is due to start in January at the West Acre Montessori School small nursery based in East Walton, about 10 miles from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's home on the Sandringham Estate.
The Montessori method of teaching, created in Italy, includes activities designed to lead children to learning, without formal lessons.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
The Norfolk Police Federation, external chairman has called for a national approach to controlling expenditure by forces and wants a nationally-based procurement organisation.
Paul Ridgway said he was grateful that government cuts were less harsh but said a national organisation to buy uniforms, cars and equipment that was fit for purpose and best value was needed.
"National savings could be made as these were necessary to build resources for fighting new types of crime now emerging," he said.
Arms dealer Anthony Buckland, 65, from Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, unanimously found guilty earlier of 11 counts of selling a prohibited weapon, has also been convicted of nine counts of fraud by a majority verdict of 10 to two.
Police found more than 400 firearms at the home of James Arnold, 49, in Wyverstone, Suffolk, as part of checks on his firearms licence in April last year.
He died of cancer in the following July but Buckland was prosecuted as the supplier and told at Norwich Crown Court he faced a long jail term.
A firearms dealer found guilty of helping a parish council chairman amass the biggest hoard of illegal weapons ever uncovered in the UK has been warned he faces a lengthy jail term.
Congestion is affecting both directions of the A148 at Bridge Road, High Kelling, near Holt.
Traffic is being disrupted on the northbound A140 by an incident on the B1145 at Aylsham.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A 42-year-old man due in court over an armed stand-off in Norwich has been found dead.
David Hunt had been on police bail charged with possession of a bladed weapon in a public place and affray over the stand-off in Argyle Street on 29 November.
He failed to appear at Norwich Crown Court earlier today. Police said his death was believed to have been "non-suspicious" but was the subject of an inquiry by the Norfolk Coroner's Office.
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Image source, Archant/Evening NewsTom Elgie landed his dream role when he was chosen as an extra for StarWars: The Force Awakens.
The 21 year old from Norwich attended a casting call and was selected to play a stormtrooper in the hotly-anticipated new film.
A lifelong fan of the series, Tom said: "It felt like you had gone into the Star Wars universe... since I was nine years old, that's where I wanted to be."
Remaining cloudy through the afternoon but it should stay dry. Feeling mild again with highs of 13C, that's 55F.
Check the forecast for your part of Norfolk on the BBC Weather site.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A new birthing unit costing £500,000 at the James Paget University Hospital, external has been officially opened to bring facilities for mothers in Great Yarmouth and Gorleston up to national quality levels.
The delivery suite was praised by Baroness Cumberlege, the government adviser leading a national review of maternity services.
Senior midwife Val Everett said the new suite contained facilities to take mothers' minds off their labour, which could often be protracted.
Nic Rigby
BBC News
A Norfolk arms dealer who supplied a Suffolk parish council chairman, who hid hundreds of illegal guns in a secret room at his house, has been found guilty of supplying prohibited weapons.
Image source, Suffolk PoliceA jury at Norwich Crown Court found Anthony Buckland, 65, of Stoke Holy Cross, near Norwich, guilty of 11 counts of selling a prohibited weapon and will continue its deliberations on the remaining counts.
Police last year spent four weeks searching James Arnold's property at Wyverstone, near Stowmarket, where the guns were found.
Rebecca Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk
When Norwich menswear store Dogfish suffered an onslaught of negative online reviews initiated by vlogger Levi Jed Murphy, fellow independent traders in the city fought back, posting their own positive reviews of the shop.
Among them was Kieran Harper, owner of Artel cafe in Wensum Street, who said: "Although there is inevitable competition in certain areas, Norwich doesn't really seem to have too much of any one thing, which means most businesses are happy to help each other out.
"All it needed was a little prompt and every person who has shopped there over the years was more than happy to share their happy retail experiences."
Image source, Kieran Harper