Updates for Norfolk on Wednesday, 23 March 2016
News, sport, weather and travel updates resume at 08:00 on Thursday
BBC Travel
Police are advising drivers to find another route after an accident involving two vehicles has blocked the A47 at Norwich Road Honingham in both directions.
More details from BBC Travel.
Norwich has a new lord mayor and sheriff.
Image source, Norwich City CouncilCity councillor Marion Maxwell will be donning the lord mayor's robes and Richard Marks, who runs John Lewis in the city, will be sheriff.
Mr Marks (pictured) is one of only 15 appointed sheriffs in towns and cities in the UK.
Claire Marshall
Environment correspondent, BBC News
The ash tree is likely to be wiped out in Europe, according to the largest-ever survey of the species.
Image source, PAThe trees are being killed off by the fungal disease ash-dieback along with an invasive beetle called the emerald ash borer.
The disease was identified in England in 2012 in a consignment of imported infected trees. It has since spread from Norfolk and Suffolk to South Wales.
The paper says that the ash will most likely be "eliminated" in Europe.
BBC Travel
Motorists are being asked to find alternative routes after a crash on the A146 involving three vehicles. It has blocked the road in both directions at Framingham Pigot.
There are long tailbacks and buses X2 and 146 are being delayed.
More details on BBC Travel.
Jodie Smith
BBC News
A minute's silence is to be held this morning to remember the victims of yesterday's explosions at Brussels Airport and Maelbeek metro station, which killed more than 30 people and injured about 250.
At 11:00 (midday Belgian time), we'll be observing the silence here on our live page.
Image source, AFPBelgium is observing three days of national mourning following the bombings, which so-called Islamic State claims it was behind.
Jill Bennett
BBC Radio Norfolk
Trinity Guildhall in King's Lynn, where medieval business people met, is among several buildings to benefit from a £3m revamp.
Image source, GoogleBeneath the building is a vaulted undercroft, which now houses archives.
The revamp has expanded a display area, provided a secure flood and fire proof archive store and a search room where residents can examine the town's history.
BBC Travel
A crash involving three vehicles is blocking the A146 in both directions at the Loddon Road and Fox Road junction in Framingham Pigot, with long tailbacks of traffic.
More details on BBC Travel.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Opposition is growing to devolution of powers to an elected mayor overseeing transport and strategic planning in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
Councillors from the three counties are meeting today to discuss the issues involved after Cambridgeshire County Council called for more consultation, Cambridge City Council expressed reservations and the leader of Norwich City Council said an elected mayor was a threat to local democracy.
Alan Waters, leader at Norwich, said he had signed the deal but had "grave reservations" about an elected mayor, which was the "antithesis of local democracy".
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
A cyclist is still being treated for serious head injuries after a crash with a car in King's Lynn yesterday morning.
Image source, GoogleThe woman cyclist was hit by a silver Peugeot car on Railway Road.
She was flown to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge for treatment but her condition today is not known.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
It is time for "negotiation", according to the leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, after councillors voted to reject the East Anglian devolution deal "in its current form".
The deal unveiled in last week's Budget said Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire would get an elected mayor with powers over transport and planning.
Conservative leader Steve Count said: "It's now a matter of finding out what parts of the deal are completely unpalatable to government to change, completely unpalatable to county councillors and where there is room for negotiation."
We're waiting for a response from councils in Norfolk and Suffolk over where they feel this leaves devolution plans for East Anglia.
Kate Williams
BBC Local Live
Labour MEP Richard Howitt, who was "locked in" at the European Parliament for most of the day yesterday after the Brussels bombings, has spoken of his relief at returning home safely last night to be greeted by his 12-year-old son.
Mr Howitt said MEPs were allowed out of the European Parliament at about 17:00 yesterday, with several making their way to Amsterdam for flights back to the UK.
"I walked into my house around 11 o'clock last night," he said. "My 12-year-old had waited up and gave me a big cuddle, and that was probably my best moment of the day."
BBC Travel
There is heavy congestion between Catbridge Lane and East Carleton Road in Mulbarton, in both directions, because of local roadworks on a commuter route in to Norwich.
More details on BBC Travel.
Kate Williams
BBC Local Live
Labour MEP Richard Howitt, who used the underground station just a few minutes before the bomb went off in Brussels yesterday, has described what happened in the hours afterwards.
He said: "The rest of the day was very disrupted but I continued with meetings as did several of my colleagues, and we tried to show defiance. We wouldn't let democracy be stopped by terrorism.
"Getting out of the building was impossible, it was a lockdown. Looking outside of the windows, the streets were completely empty, and at the entrance to the parliament, you could just see a line of armed soldiers."
BBC Travel
There is heavy congestion on the Norwich A47 bypass junction at Colney, for the B1108 Watton Road, eastbound into Norwich because of roadworks.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Kate Kinsella
BBC Look East weather
It will be a dry and bright start to the day with the odd mist and fog patch, but these will soon clear.
Bright or occasional sunny spells towards the coast.
Maximum temperature: 11C (52F).
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
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