Updates for Norfolk on Friday, 15 January 2016
Live updates resume at 08:00 on Monday
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Goodbye from the Norfolk Live team on Friday...we'll be back from 08:00 on Monday, bringing you the news, sport, travel and weather updates as they happen.
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Play five-a-side? Every fancied giving it a go? Vowed to get fit this January? Fancy the chance to be at the FA Cup final?
There’s one thing that could be the answer to all those questions – the FA People’s Cup., external
It’s a FREE-to-enter knockout competition (with the first round on 22-24 January) for male, female and disability players across 10 categories, ranging from under-14s through to the over-35s - with the chance to go to Wembley for the FA Cup final at the end.
But hurry - the deadline for entries is midnight today!
You can find out all about it here.
Clear spells will bring widespread frost and icy patches and the risk of scattered wintry showers.
Tonight will see a mixture of clear spells and patchy cloud with snow or sleet showers, mainly in the north and east.
Temperatures will fall to around freezing but a few degrees higher near the coast. Minimum temperature: -2C (28F).
Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk
The sky over Great Yarmouth comes alive every evening as thousands of starlings perform their nightly dance.
The flock ebbs back and forth as if moving with one mind as it searches for a roost for the night. It's known as a murmuration and I was lucky enough to film it.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Volunteer lifesavers have received a boost from a Norwich insurance firm that raised £18,000 by opening up its staff car park to Christmas shoppers.
Image source, East of England AmbulanceThe cash raised by staff at Marsh will help train community medical first responders across Norfolk.
These volunteers are trained by the East of England Ambulance Service, external to perform first aid and attend 999 calls such as cardiac arrests, diabetes emergencies, choking incidents, seizures or people suffering breathing problems and chest pain.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A lifelike robot patient is giving clinicians hands-on practical experience of treating physical and psychological conditions at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT).
Image source, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustThe full-size "Sim Man" at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich can recreate a wide range of different scenarios to help staff improve communication skills, confidence and team-working, the Trust said.
Computer software can make the robot cough, breathe and hold a conversation with doctors and nurses as well as falling suddenly into a critical condition like a real patient.
Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent
Plans to raise the road at Welney to prevent what has become annual flooding would require "significant work" and could cost as much as £5m, it has been said at a flood summit today in west Norfolk.
A feasibility study by Norfolk County Council, external concludes the road would need to be raised by 10ft (3.3m) to stop villages being cut off by floods every winter but neither the county council nor the Environment Agency can afford that, despite pleas from MPs and enterprise agencies.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss, also MP for South West Norfolk, said it was not acceptable that the road was closed for so long every year.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A call has gone out from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, external (RNLI) for lifeguards for beaches in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Image source, RNLINew recruits - often teachers, students, stay-at-home parents, business owners or gap year travellers - will be kitted-out, paid and trained to patrol at 12 beaches across the two counties this summer.
Vincent Pank, RNLI lifeguard manager in East of England, said: "I can't think of a better way to cure the winter blues than applying online on our website to become an RNLI beach lifeguard and get paid to save lives this summer."
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in thick fog at the Norfolk home of Tory peer Lord Ballyedmond could have become disorientated because of a lack of visual signals, an inquest has heard.
The deaths of the peer, also known as Dr Edward Haughey, and his foreman Declan Small, 42, both of Co Down; and pilot Capt Carl Dickerson, 36, of Lancashire; and co-pilot Capt Lee Hoyle, 45, of Cheshire, at Gillingham Hall, near Beccles, on 13 March 2014 was ruled an accident by a jury in Norwich.
Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigator Peter Wivell said the pilot may have been disorientated by an optical illusion caused by the fog as no mechanical defects were found on the helicopter.
Paul Moseley
BBC Radio Norfolk
Anxiety over the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s inspired Taverham resident Noel Barrett to build a survival bunker for his family in private woodland in his back garden.
Image source, Historic EnglandThe DIY bunker has now been granted Grade II-listed status due to its historic importance as one of the surviving reminders of the fear and tension of that time.
Heritage Minister Tracey Crouch said: "Though never used, it's a part of history that should be conserved for generations to come and this Grade II listing will help do that."
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A fatal helicopter crash in thick fog at the Norfolk home of one of Northern Ireland's richest men has been ruled an accident.
A coroner's jury in Norwich concluded the crash at Gillingham that killed Lord Ballyedmond, 70, also known as Dr Edward Haughey, and three others was an accident.
The helicopter crashed shortly after take-off on 13 March 2014, killing the Tory peer, his foreman Declan Small, 42, from Co Down, pilot Capt Carl Dickerson, 36, of Lancashire and co-pilot Capt Lee Hoyle, 45, of Cheshire.
Tim Addicott
BBC Radio Norfolk
Two Lithuanian men who trafficked twin brothers and forced them to live in squalor while working in food factories in Suffolk for virtually no money have been jailed for three-and-a-half years at King's Lynn Crown Court.
Image source, Norfolk PoliceKonstantin Sasmurin, 34, (left) and Linas Ratantas, 31, who both lived at Caister-on-Sea, admitted trafficking the brothers and taking £3,766 of their earnings.
The court heard the two vulnerable victims were threatened with violence. Judge Dennis said the crime had been organised and was to satisfy the defendants' greed.
Tim Addicott
BBC Radio Norfolk
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Patrick Byrne
BBC News
About 2,900 responses to budget proposals, external have been received by Norfolk County Council - hailed as one of the highest ever received.
Petitions were received to save cuts to the Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service, council transport for adults in social care, North Walsham Library and the Norfolk Historical Environment Service, external.
Council leader George Nobbs said after a decision to support transport for young people, many people asked that the same should be done for older people and to protect transport services.
Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
There were no upsets in the first round of the World Indoor Bowls Championship, external at Potters in Hopton-on-Sea on Thursday.
Seeded players David Gourlay, Greg Harlow (pictured), Darren Burnett and Jonathan Ross are all safely through to the second round which starts on Tuesday.
Image source, Getty ImagesThere's a big match in the mixed pairs this evening as Norfolk's Mervyn King and Rebecca Field find themselves playing each other. King is with Laura Thomas while Field teams up with Paul Foster.
It will be cold and breezy with isolated sleet and snow showers in the east at times.
The west will stay mostly dry enjoying some brighter periods.
Maximum temperature: 5C (41F)
Paul Moseley
BBC Radio Norfolk
A bunker built by a Taverham resident in his back garden at the height of the Cold War to protect his family in case of nuclear attack has been granted Grade II-listed status.
Image source, Historic EnglandThe bunker is equipped with home comforts like television, radio and carpets but also contains a spa bath normally a luxury item.
Noel Barrett said he built the bunker in 1982, mainly using second-hand materials such as reinforced concrete, steel and brick, to put his mind at rest.
Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
King's Lynn Town, external have pulled the plug on a deal to sign the Spalding United midfielder Josh Moreman.
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The Linnets take on Southern Premier leaders Poole Town away from home tomorrow.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A vehicle believed to have been involved in a fatal fail-to-stop crash that closed a main road near Norwich for more than six hours on Thursday has been found by police.
Image source, GoogleThe body of a man, in his 40s, from the Norwich area was discovered on the side of the eastbound carriageway of the A47 near the junction of the B1108 Watton Road.
Police said they would interview the driver "in due course" but would still like to speak to witnesses or anyone with information.
Rob Butler
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich City confirm they have signed 18-year-old midfielder Ben Godfrey from League Two York City.