Updates for Friday, 20 January 2017
Duke of Cambridge to leave his job with air ambulance charity
Court order to evict bed blocker patient
Bed blocker using hospital as hotel, claims former patient
Volunteers help wardens in clear-up operation at flood-hit nature reserve
Funding to improve coastal areas
Lambert 'relishing' Carrow Road return
World number 10 knocked out of World Professional Indoor Bowls Championships
The rest of the day will be dry and sunny, with clear blue skies.
It'll feel cold, with temperatures reaching a high of 6C (43F).
The cold and icy dawn turned into a bright and crispy morning. Thanks to our BBC Weather Watchers for sharing their photos:
Phil Daley
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich City boss Alex Neil has been hosting his pre-match press conference ahead of tomorrow's game at home to Paul Lambert's Wolves.
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Championship strugglers Rotherham United beat 10-man Norwich as Nelson Oliveira is shown an early red card.
Read MoreDespite being assessed as fit to be discharged from hospital shortly after he was admitted to hospital in August 2014, a patient refused to go for more than two years.
The James Paget University Hospital had to resort to legal action in order to evict the man, who lived in Suffolk. He finally left last week.
Earlier we reported that NHS managers said they couldn't put a figure on the cost of his extended stay.
However, the Department of Health say the average daily cost of a hospital bed across the UK is about £400.
Using this figure, it would mean the man's stay in Gorleston would have cost about £292,000.
The front page of the Norwich Evening News, external today:
Image source, ArchantA mother who got hepatitis C after she was given unchecked blood during childbirth says there's been a marked improvement in her health with the medication she's been taking.
It took Michelle Tolley almost 20 years to find out she had the liver disease.
Michelle, who lives in Sparham near Dereham, had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and following a yearly health check she was called back by her doctor because her liver tests were high.
Last year she began treatment. Michelle told BBC Radio Norfolk's Nick Conrad that she had a phone call from the liver nurse last week, who told her she couldn't detect any virus in her system.
Quote MessageThere could still be fragments left. I have another nine weeks treatment and then you wait three months for a blood test and a further three months to find out if you are definitely 100% clear."
Michelle Tolley
Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Paul Lambert has been talking to our colleagues at BBC WM about bringing his Wolves team to Carrow Road this weekend.
Lambert enjoyed great success as Norwich City manager, leading the team from League One to the Premier League in between 2009 and 2012.
It's the sixth time that the former Celtic player has gone up against The Canaries since leaving the club.
The previous five meetings, when Lambert was at Aston Villa, saw Norwich draw one and lose the other four.
Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich City face former manager Paul Lambert at Carrow Road on Saturday.
Lambert, who led The Canaries to successive promotions from League One to the Premier League, is now in charge of Wolves.
They have won their last two games against Aston Villa in the Championship and top flight club Stoke City in the FA Cup.
Image source, Getty ImagesNorwich have lost their last two games, but manager Alex Neil is hopeful that the injury problems which have hit his squad in recent weeks will have eased.
Striker Nelson Oliveira is still suspended following his red card at Rotherham last weekend.
Three places in Norfolk have secured funding for Coastal Community Teams, and will become part of a network of teams across the country.
They'll receive £10,000 each, but how will they spend this?
King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council, external says the money for King's Lynn will be used to make the most of the town's heritage and waterfront location.
Image source, Nichola Haacke/GeographFurther along the coast in North Norfolk, the grant for Blakeney will go towards developing a plan for the management of marine waters inland.
The funds for Sheringham will be used to keep the town centre and seafront vibrant, says a spokesman for North Norfolk District Council. They'll also look at options on how to improve pedestrian access and improvements to lighting on the promenade (pictured).
Tom Baker
BBC Radio Norfolk
Projects at Blakeney, King's Lynn and Sheringham are to receive £10,000 from the government for new coastal community teams, external to help improve sections of the Norfolk coast.
Image source, Paul MoseleyThe idea of the teams is that councils, volunteers and local businesses will pull together to create opportunities for jobs and growth.
The money for each project is initial funding to get the ball rolling, and the schemes are then meant to attract private investment.
This brings the total number of coastal community teams in the county to four. In 2015, funding was approved for Wells-next-the-Sea.
The back page of the Eastern Daily Press, external:
Image source, ArchantThe front page of the Eastern Daily Press, external today:
Image source, ArchantChris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Debbie Wilford has knocked world number 10 Mark Royal out of the World Professional Indoor Bowls Championship, external in Norfolk.
The New Zealander is one of three women to have qualified for the main draw and she will play Paul Foster in the second round.
Image source, Getty ImagesFoster teams up with Norwich's Rebecca Field today in the quarter finals of the mixed pairs competition. They take on Ellen Falkner and Robert Paxton this afternoon at Potters Resort in Hopton-on-Sea.
After a bitterly cold night, and a frosty morning, the idea of a duvet day was very tempting.
How cold was it for you? BBC East weatherman Dan Holley's tweet may have the answer.
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Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk
A patient who was on the same hospital ward as a man who'd spent two years there despite being medically fit for discharge says it was "an open secret" that he'd refused to leave.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, has been in hospital several times in the last year. She was worried about getting home in time for Christmas and asked a nurse how long people usually stayed on the ward.
"She laughed and said anything up to two years... I looked at her in horror," she said.
"She told me she thought the actions of the 'bed-blocker' were totally disgusting.
"This person was there for two years being fed, watered, looked after, kept clean... and local people have been barred from that bed because he was there.
"I wouldn't want to stop somebody getting a bed, I couldn't have it on my conscience.
"You go into hospital if you're ill enough, when you're better or getting better you come out.
"It's costing everybody money and beds - and in some cases deaths.
"It's using the hospital as a hotel."
But what are the costs, both legal and care, to the James Paget University Hospital, external, which had to apply to the courts to force a bed blocking patient to leave?
The hospital says it has a solicitor who works on a fixed-fee basis, and they can't work out the costs for this single case. It also says the patient will not have to pay costs.
As for the cost of his two-year stay - they say they can't put a figure on that either.
The patient, a man, is from Suffolk, and can't identified because of patient confidentiality.
He'd been admitted to the hospital in August 2014.
At the beginning of December 2016, Great Yarmouth Magistrates' Court granted an order for him to leave the hospital.
He left last week.
The James Paget University Hospital says its decision to apply for a court order to evict a patient who refused to be discharged was a "last resort".
In a statement, the director of governance Anna Hills said the patient had been "occupying a bed unnecessarily for more than two years... every effort had been made to try to remedy this situation".
"He repeatedly refused all offers of appropriate accommodation organised by our local authority and social care partners, despite being fit for discharge," she said.
"As a last resort, the hospital had to apply to the court to allow us to remove the gentleman from the hospital.
"The decision to go to court was not taken lightly, but our priority has to be considering the needs of all our patients and ensuring that our limited resources, which are under increasing pressure, are available to those who genuinely need hospital care.
"We have worked with our partners in this case to ensure the gentleman continues to receive the appropriate level of care and support in the community, having left hospital."
A patient has been evicted from a hospital after refusing to leave for more than two years.
The man, who's from Suffolk, was admitted to the James Paget University Hospital, external in Gorleston in August 2014.
Soon after his arrival, the hospital says the patient was medically fit to be discharged, and treatment for his medical condition had ended.
He was assessed and deemed ready for ongoing residential care, but the hospital says the man "repeatedly" refused all of the care options put forward and they couldn't make him leave without his consent to being discharged.
They had to get a court order to evict him, and that was granted by Great Yarmouth Magistrates' Court on 1 December. The patient left the hospital on 10 January.
Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather
There will be some mist and fog patches around this morning, but these will clear to leave a dry and bright day with plenty of blue sky and sunshine.
Despite this, it will feel rather chilly outside with a high of 6C (43F).
Here's my full forecast...
There are more details on the BBC Weather website.
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
A warm welcome from the Norfolk Live team on this frosty Friday morning.
Our top story this morning - the James Paget University Hospital had to get a court order to evict a patient who'd refused to leave one of its wards for more than two years.
More on that shortly, plus our regular news, sport and travel updates. It's a nippy start to the day, with a widespread frost... Elizabeth Rizzini's forecast follows next.
