Updates on Friday, 26 February 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Monday
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A 29-year-old man arrested by police investigating a cyber attack on an airport's computers has been released on bail until June.
The unnamed man from Dover was questioned by Kent police over the attack at Norwich Airport in October last year.
He was held overnight in Dover on suspicion of computer hacking.
Chris Bell
BBC Look East weather
Tonight will be cloudy and largely dry with a few clear intervals, but also the small chance of an isolated light shower.
Some patchy frost is possible. Minimum temperature: -2C (30F).
Saturday will be cloudy much of the time with bright spells and a small chance of isolated showers. Maximum temperature: 7C (43F).
BBC Sport
Canaries boss Alex Neil has asked his squad, currently lingering in the relegation zone, to adopt a positive attitude ahead of their trip to Premier League front-runners Leicester City.
Image source, PA"Leicester are effective and good at what they do, but we need to impose ourselves on the game. We're going there to get something," he said.
"We need to win games - that's the bottom line. We're going to go out and attack and play with freedom and that's our strength."
More than 63 tonnes of medicines, worth an estimated £1.6m, have been wasted in Norfolk and Waveney over the past four months, clinical commissioning groups, external have revealed.
Ian Small, deputy head of medicines management for Norfolk, said people often automatically ticked the repeat prescription box when they do not need them.
"This is a waste of NHS resources. People reorder things like painkillers every time yet often a bottle will last nearly four months," he said.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A vice-chairman of a Broads Authority, external committee ousted in a vote of no confidence claims the accusations of "disloyalty" made against him are untrue.
Image source, Broads AuthorityJames Knight, who sits on the navigation committee, said his questioning of spending and proposals from officers had been misinterpreted, adding: "I have always sought to uphold the principles of the law and the authority's code of conduct.
"I have served the public interest to the best of my ability and have sought to ensure the authority uses its resources prudently and is open and honest in its decision-making and actions."
Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent
Another attempt is to be made to speed up improvements to a bottleneck junction at Ely that may be holding up rail development across East Anglia.
A "summit meeting" of local MPs, councillors and transport groups today agreed to a feasibility study into turning a single-track section of line into double track with Cambridgeshire LEP funding.
An appeal will also be made to Chancellor George Osborne to announce extra funding for the scheme in next month's budget.
Network Rail told the meeting it did not expect to have any money to fund the scheme until 2019 at the earliest.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A man in his 40s arrested in connection with a stand-off incident involving armed police in Gorleston yesterday has been bailed.
Police spent more than eight hours investigating reports that there were suspicious devices inside a property on Viking Road.
Two items seized from inside the building were thought to be BB guns, said police.
A man who raped a woman in Bristol 35 years ago has been jailed for four years and eight months and will serve half the sentence in custody.
Image source, Avon and Somerset PoliceStephen McCafferty, 62, from Thetford, pleaded guilty at Bristol Crown Court to one count of rape committed in Wells Road, Knowle, in 1981.
He was caught thanks to advances in DNA sample enhancement but police said the impact of his crime on the victim's life had been immense as she still lived in fear and did not like to go out alone.
Tim Addicott
BBC Radio Norfolk
Stories today covered this evening:
BBC Sport
Norwich face top-of-the-table Leicester with defender Andre Wisdom struggling to overcome a knee problem.
Image source, Getty ImagesVadis Odjidja Ofoe is fit after a minor ankle injury and midfielder Alex Tettey returns after completing a two-game ban.
Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri (pictured) could give a debut to January signing Daniel Amartey, with right-back Danny Simpson serving a one-match suspension.
A solar-powered rubbish bin on trial until Easter at Cromer is helping to keep problem litter under control on the seafront.
Image source, North Norfolk District CouncilFood packaging from seaside takeaways fills bins to overflowing very quickly, spreading litter across the ground, according to North Norfolk District Council, external, which installed the bin.
The solar-powered compactor crushes down waste regularly using a hydraulic arm meaning the bin needs to be emptied less frequently and litter-picking becomes less of a problem.
An organisation which gives free hot food to homeless people has rejected as "bureaucratic nonsense" a request from council officials to have its food hygiene standards inspected.
Image source, The Picnic PeopleThe People's Picnic volunteers were told by Norwich City food inspectors that they faced the same health and safety regulations as commercial organisations.
The group posted a message on Facebook in which a spokesman said: "Apparently we need to register in order to engage in the act of sharing food and adhere to their terms and conditions. Safe to say we were not prepared to engage in such bureaucratic nonsense."
The council said closing down the operation would be a "last resort".
Paul Moseley
BBC Radio Norfolk
A 29-year-old man has been arrested in Dover in connection with a cyber attack on the Norwich Airport website in October last year.
Image source, GoogleIn November a hacker calling himself "His Royal Gingerness" contacted BBC Radio Norfolk to say he could have infected computers running the airport to prove it was vulnerable to attack.
He added that he believed another hacker had planned to put fake bomb alerts on the site at Christmas - potentially causing chaos.
Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather
Sunny spells in places with the best of the sunshine in the west of the county.
Dry but chilly in a light breeze. Maximum temperature: 6C (43F).
Scientists investigating the mass stranding of sperm whales in the North Sea have said it could be many months before they determine the cause of the deaths.
Image source, Sea Watch FoundationSix whales have died this year after washing up on the east coast of England around Skegness and Hunstanton.
Theories to suggest why the whales became stranded in the shallow waters of the North Sea have cited pollution, increased noise levels, and competition for food and females.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Three patients at the James Paget Hospital, external in Gorleston spent more than 12 hours on trolleys waiting for beds during a "major incident" last month.
An unprecedented number of emergency ambulance admissions were made in the first few weeks of the year, the hospital said.
A report to the board of directors also revealed accident and emergency treatment targets were missed with many people waiting six hours or more but all cancer patients were seen within target times.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Four digital road signs to warn of tidal flooding along the west Norfolk coast are to be installed in Hunstanton, Heacham and Snettisham next week.
The new LED signs, replacing manually updated warnings introduced in 2005, will be brighter, more visible to motorists and provide "timely" information, the Environment Agency, external said.
Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary, external was flooded by a North Sea tidal surge in December 2013. The new signs will alert residents to potential dangers at high tides and imminent floods or when evacuation is necessary.
Today's back page of the Diss Express, external:
Image source, Diss Express
Nic Rigby
BBC News
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, external (pictured) in King's Lynn, with a predicted shortfall of £12m, is facing the highest deficit of Norfolk's hospitals, a new BBC survey has found.
Image source, Queen Elizabeth HospitalThe Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, external is facing a deficit of £10.3m at the end of the financial year 2015-16, while the James Paget Hospital, external in Gorleston is facing a £5.5m deficit.
Across the East of England hospitals are facing a deficit of about £441m.
