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Peggy Spencer, dance teacher, choreographer and former Come Dancing judge, dies at home in Norfolk, aged 95
Number of deaths at mental health trust increases by 12%
Future of Great Yarmouth walk-in centre in doubt
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'Trust's pledge follows review'published at 13:41 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
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Image source, Norwich Evening NewsPeggy Spencer: 'A pioneer and great ambassador for dance sport'published at 12:40 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Local LivePeggy Spencer is undoubtedly one of the main reasons why the British fell in love with ballroom and Latin dancing.
Image source, Thinkstock/ISTDHer death continues to generate many tributes, including one from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD), external, one of the world's leading dance examination boards, of which Peggy was president.
Quote MessageIt is with great sadness that the ISTD president Peggy Spencer passed away yesterday at 11am. Peggy was a pioneer and great ambassador for dance sport and has left behind a wonderful legacy. Our thoughts are with her family at this time."
Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing
Peggy Spencer: Dance doyennepublished at 12:19 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Local LivePeggy Spencer was born and educated in Bromley and began to teach dancing formally after World War Two, setting up the Royston Ballroom in Penge with her second husband, Frank.
Image source, ISTDTogether they formed one of the most successful dancing partnerships. They also trained many formation teams, Peggy's main love.
Peggy appeared with her teams in the BBCs Come Dancing over 40 years, and travelled the world teaching, adjudicating, and promoting British Ballroom and Latin dancing.
Peggy Spencer on how dancing became a TV phenomenonpublished at 12:04 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Before Strictly Come Dancing there was Come Dancing, which ran for almost half a century - and for most of that time, Peggy Spencer was part of it.
After World War Two she set up dance classes in village halls around Kent. They became so popular, she had to put on more and more to keep up with demand.
"I started putting people into groups and then made them compete against each other; this became formation dancing. The competition soon became nationwide and the standard got better and better," she said in 2009.
Such was the interest in dancing across the country, producers at the BBC decided to televise it. The show was to be known as Come Dancing and was launched in 1949 with Peggy working with its formation dancers for the next 50 years, as well as becoming one of its judges.
Peggy Spencer: 'I wanted to be a politician'published at 11:44 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Local LiveDespite teaching and working with the likes of Rudolf Nureyev and The Beatles, Peggy Spencer didn't intend to be a choreographer.
In 2009 she told the BBC: "I didn't set out to be a dance teacher at all; I wanted to be a politician. Then the war came and it put an end to my learning."
She spent a lifetime on the dancefloor, working with some of the biggest names in showbusiness, and was a household name herself through her long involvement with the BBC's Come Dancing (pictured) as a choreographer and judge.
From Nureyev to newbies, Peggy Spencer taught them allpublished at 11:22 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Local LiveIn her moving tribute to Peggy Spencer, her daughter Helena Anderson said her mum was not one to think about an epitaph, but if she had: "...it wouldn't be the champions that she taught, it wouldn't be the fact that she taught Prince Rainier and Princess Grace (pictured) to dance - that she taught Rudolf Nureyev the tango - all those things; those happy memories.
Image source, AFP"That isn't what she was about. She was about the beginner dancer who comes into the ballroom, almost saying 'Forgive me for living, I've got two left feet, and you'll never do anything with me'... and she'd say 'Come on, I can teach anybody to dance, and before you know it you'll be dancing at your local wedding.'"
"I shall miss her. I loved her dearly. I lived with her until four months ago when things got a bit difficult and I couldn't cope...and she had had a long and wonderful life."
You can listen back to the interview on Nick Conrad's show.
Peggy Spencer's daughter: 'She died in my arms wearing her sparkly shawl'published at 10:48 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Peggy Spencer's daughter Helena Anderson has been paying tribute to her this morning. In a moving tribute, she spoke to Nick Conrad on BBC Radio Norfolk.
"She actually died in my arms yesterday morning and she was wearing her sparkly shawl and her sparkly gloves and she was wearing her favourite perfume. We were listening to Ross Mitchell's waltzes. And she just slipped away very peacefully," she said.
Picture: Peggy Spencer puts Blue Peter presenters through their pacespublished at 10:17 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Local LiveMuch-loved dancer Peggy Spencer, who died yesterday morning at Millbridge nursing home in Heacham, inspired a generation to "come dancing".
Here she is (centre) putting former Blue Peter presenters Lesley Judd and Christopher Wenner through their paces.
In later years she moved to Norfolk, living in King's Lynn with her daughter Helena Anderson, serving as deputy mayoress of the borough for a year.
Peggy Spencer death: How social media is respondingpublished at 09:52 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Local LiveThe sad news about the death of Peggy Spencer, the woman who helped spark the nation's love affair with ballroom dancing, has prompted many responses on social media.
Here are a couple of the tributes so far:
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End of twitter post 2Peggy Spencer, doyenne of ballroom dancing, dies aged 95published at 09:22 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Local LivePeggy Spencer, (pictured below left), the doyenne of ballroom dancing and former presenter of BBC TV show Come Dancing has died in Norfolk.
She was 95 and has been living at a care home in Heacham.
She started teaching dancing in air raid shelters in World War Two to keep people's spirits up and continued to teach in King's Lynn until just two years ago.
She said she was asked to present Strictly Come Dancing when it launched in 2004 but refused, saying it deserved younger presenters.
Hewett's GB disappointmentpublished at 09:12 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Rob Butler
BBC Radio Norfolk sportNorfolk's wheelchair tennis star Alfie Hewett pushed one of the world's best players all the way this morning, but world number five Shingo Kunieda came out on top in the three-set tussle.
Hewett, from Cantley, is part of the Great Britain team who ended up losing their semi-final against hosts Japan at the World Team Cup.
On Saturday they play Australia in the bronze medal match.
Image source, Tennis FoundationThursday's weather: Sunny spells and isolated showerspublished at 08:56 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weatherWe're expecting sunny periods throughout the day today, although an isolated sharp shower is possible this afternoon. Feeling pleasantly warm with a top temperature of 17C (63F).
Dry and cool overnight, with clear spells leading to some mist and fog patches. Lows of 8C (46F).
Get a more detailed on the forecast where you live or work, from BBC Weather.
Greyfriars health centre 'wasn't a waste of money' says health bosspublished at 08:51 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Clare Worden
BBC Radio NorfolkThe chief executive of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group, external says the need for the Greyfriars walk-in health centre has changed in the seven years since it opened, but insists it wasn't "a waste of money".
Speaking as doubts were raised over the future of the Great Yarmouth centre, where the current operator's contract ends in September, Andy Evans said: "I think at the time it was very much needed because general practice was experiencing difficulties.
"What’s happened is as the health service has got better in Great Yarmouth we now can use that resource better in a more sensitive way."
Future of Great Yarmouth's walk-in health centre in doubtpublished at 08:38 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Clare Worden
BBC Radio NorfolkThe future of Great Yarmouth's NHS walk-in health centre is in doubt, as the current contract with operator Malling Health ends in September, and local health commissioners say services can be provided better through GP surgeries and the NHS 111 phone line.
Malling Health disputes claims the Greyfriars centre, external is not busy, saying it treated 105,000 walk-in patients in its first six months.
Image source, GoogleRise in unexpected deaths 'is down to better reporting' says trustpublished at 08:30 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Nikki Fox
BBC Look EastThe Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, external says the 12% rise in the number of unexpected deaths last year is down to better reporting, and the trust seeing more patients.
It also says it's investigating each case.
Two of the deaths involved inpatients choking on food, but most of the people who died were being looked after in the community.
Later today we'll find out if the trust's figures are higher than the national average.
Record number of unexpected deaths at mental health trustpublished at 08:13 British Summer Time 26 May 2016
Nikki Fox
BBC Look EastThe number of unexpected deaths at the mental health trust serving Norfolk and Suffolk increased by 12% last year.
Figures from the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, external show that 157 people died in the 12 months to April.
That's up from 88 three years ago.
Image source, Andy Parrett/GeographWelcome to Thursday's Norfolk Livepublished at 08:00
Philippa Taylor
BBC Local LiveGood morning.
We start the day today with news of a record number of unexpected deaths at the mental health trust, external that serves Norfolk and Suffolk, up 12% from last year.
We'll bring you more details shortly.
