Updates on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
News, sport, weather and travel updates resume at 08:00 on Wednesday
Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk
I've been speaking to the coastguard team at Walcott, who say they are yet to spot a whale today.
The whale was reported to be alive and thrashing about 300 to 400yds off the Mundesley shoreline.
British Divers Marine Life Rescue, external, the Zoological Society of London and the local council have also been informed.
The sighting of a whale off Mundesley comes after six sperm whales beached and died along the East Coast over the past three weeks.
The most recent was a bull whale which died after becoming stranded at Old Hunstanton last Thursday, (pictured) the 30th to die in the North Sea so far this year.
Coastguard Rescue Teams from Happisburgh and Mundesley are currently on the shoreline keeping an eye on the position of a whale, seen in shallow waters off Mundesley shortly after 10:00.
British Divers Marine Life Rescue, the Zoological Society of London, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Receiver of Wreck, and the local council, have also been informed.
UK Coastguard's Mike Puplett said: "We are advising people to keep at a safe distance from the whale, so we do not cause any further distress to it. We are doing all we can to assist the authorities and allow those with rescue experience to do their work.'
A whale has been reported in shallow water off the coast of Mundesley.
A member of the Mundesley Coastguard Rescue Team contacted UK Coastguard shortly after 10:00, to report a whale 300-400 yards offshore.
The whale was reported to be alive and thrashing in shallow water. It's the seventh whale to be seen off the East Coast in recent weeks.
British Divers Marine Life Rescue have told us that species of the whale spotted off Mundesley is unknown.
A spokesman said the animal was afloat in shallow water about 300-400m from the shore.
Following reports that a whale was spotted in shallow water off Mundesley this morrning, we've despatched our reporter Andrew Turner.
We'll bring you more information as soon as we have it.
We're getting reports of a whale sighting off the Norfolk coast.
A coastguard team off Mundesley made a report to Humber Coastguard at about 10:10 this morning, saying that they believed they had seen a live whale in shallow water off Mundesley.
A Humber Coastguard spokesman said it was unknown what kind of whale it was. He said coastguard teams from Happisburgh and Mundesley had been sent to gather more information, and that natural history organisations and the local council had been informed.
We'll bring you more information as soon as we have it.
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
Warplanes from RAF Marham have been involved in some of more than 2,000 combat missions against so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
Image source, MoDJustine Greening, the International Development Secretary, announced in the Commons yesterday that Tornado jets and RAF Typhoons, alongside Reaper drones, have carried out more than 580 successful air strikes against IS.
Parliament authorised British air strikes in Syria in December.
The back page of today's Eastern Daily Press, external:
Image source, ArchantA Norwich road has now reopened after it closed last month because of a sinkhole.
Norwrich City Council began repair works last week to fill the hole on Plumstead Road.
Contractors discovered a 6m-deep (19ft) cavern beneath the road surface.
Norfolk County Council is to get an extra £7.7m over the next two years, as part of extra funding for councils announced by the government yesterday.
Broadland District Council, external is the only authority in the county that won't be getting the extra funding.
The front page of today's Eastern Daily Press, external:
Image source, ArchantCaroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
A decision on whether to extend coastal defences at Hopton, near Great Yarmouth, will be made this evening.
Potters Leisure Resort wants to build four granite groynes to defend its business from the sea. Two years ago, Bourne Leisure spent about £10m on rock groynes to protect its holiday village just to the north.
If the scheme goes ahead, it will be the best-protected village along the Norfolk coast.
Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich City's under-21s were beaten 7-0 by Manchester United at Old Trafford last night.
Will Keane scored five goals for United. A penalty from Andreas Pereira and a Timothy Fosu-Mensah strike completed the scoring.
Image source, Getty ImagesTo put the result into context, Norwich City fielded a team with no league experience for the club at all while the United line-up included more than £40m worth of talent including Dutch international Memphis Depay and first team players Phil Jones, Adnan Januzaj and Paddy McNair.
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
The governmernt has announced it has found £10m extra money for Norfolk County Council and other authorities in the county.
The county council will get £7.7m, the largest share, while other councils will get several hundred thousand pounds each. The extra money is available for the next two years.
When the local government spending settlement was announced last year, there was an outcry from rural authorities who said the funding formula used by the government favoured urban authorities, not rural ones.
Kate Kinsella
BBC Look East weather
Staying dry, with some bright or sunny spells. There may be a few isolated showers later. Lighter winds than yesterday, and feeling cold.
Maximum temperature: 6C (43F).
A breezy and cloudy night, with longer spells of rain. Minimum temperature: 2C (36F). There's more details here for the weather where you live.
The stories in the news this morning:
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
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