Jay Lawrence
BBC Radio Norfolk

Norwich City manager Alex Neil says his side are more suited to the Premier League than The Championship.

The Canaries faced top division Southampton last night in the FA Cup, cruelly conceding in stoppage time to lose 1-0.

Norwich are currently 11th in the league and 18 points off the top spot, and Neil says his side may have to scrap more if they want to play in the Premier League next season.

"I think this level suits us," he said. "The Championship is fight, battle, scrap and sometimes that doesn't suit us.

"When it's more of a tactical game and we can have a game plan, we seem to perform better. But we need to have that other side of the game because to get out of The Championship you're going to have to fight at times."

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Norwich Evening News

The front page of the Norwich Evening News, external: Threats made by masked men who stole £500 in city raid.

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Norwich Evening News

Under-strength team suffered late heartbreak in FA Cup third round - the back page of the Norwich Evening News, external:

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It seems that emergency services are not keen on the word 'the'.

They say that including the three letters in addresses such as "The Street" loses them vital seconds processing calls, and they'd like it not to be included in future.

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The emergency services say valuable time is wasted while operators clarify whether someone lives at, for example, '17 The Avenue', or '17 Avenue'.

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In a report to Breckland Council, external, they've request that the "the" be dropped from street names... and from house names.

The council will consider "the" issue today. 

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We'd love to know what you think, external.

Eastern Daily Press

Attention turns back to transfers after FA Cup loss - the back page of the Eastern Daily Press, external today:

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Eastern Daily Press

Thirty-five drivers failed tests during crackdown - today's Eastern Daily Press, external:

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Jill Bennett
BBC Radio Norfolk

Repair work for hundreds of years of wear and tear at St Mary's Church in Snettisham came to an end just five months ago.

The local community had spent five years raising the money to maintain the 14th Century building with its landmark spire, but now the west Norfolk church has become a victim of lead thieves.

The raiders only took three sheets of lead, but dozens will need repairs, costing several thousands of pounds.

Edward Stanton, part of the committee who'd helped with the fundraising for the recent repairs, told me he realised the raiders had been at work when he arrived at the church last Thursday.

Jill Bennett
BBC Radio Norfolk

"There's now no lead left to take," says Reverend Judith Pollard after her west Norfolk church was targeted for a third time by thieves.

The raiders have removed all the lead from the north aisle and chantry roof of St Andrew church, in Little Massingham, causing extensive damage which will cost a great deal of money to repair.  

"The scrap value of the lead is a drop in the ocean in comparison to the amount of money it will cost to put the roof to rights", says Ms Pollard.

It's believed the thieves were disturbed during the incident, as the lead was left in situ. The theft has devastated the local community. 

"People think this is a victimless crime, it's only a building but that's not true," Ms Pollard said. "It's the centre of the village... it has a historical heart of all sorts of baptisms, weddings, funerals over hundreds of years.

"It's the emotional damage as well as the damage to the physical building."

Passengers on rail services between Norwich and Great Yarmouth will have a longer journey time this morning.

A fault with the signalling system between Brundall and Acle means trains are running at reduced speed.

Greater Anglia warns of delays, external of up to 15 minutes, and expects disruption to continue to 09:30.

Jay Lawrence
BBC Radio Norfolk

Norwich City are out of the FA Cup for another year. An injury-time goal meant Southampton came out 1-0 winners.

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The match looked like it was going to go into extra-time, but a Shane Long strike put Saints into the fourth round, and a tie with Arsenal.

The Canaries had a depleted midfield, with Graham Dorrans, Jonny Howson, Louis Thompson and Youseff Mulumbu all unavailable. 

Despite the result, manager Alex Neil said he was proud of his side's performance.

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Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

There's a north/south split in today's forecast. 

It's cloudy in the north, and also a bit milder, and cold and frosty in the south but this is where we should see the best of the sunshine throughout the course of the day. 

Towards parts of Northampton, Bedford and Norwich we're starting above freezing, and there's plenty of cloud here, perhaps a few spots of drizzle, but generally dry just about everywhere. 

Towards the south we've got lots of sunshine around. 

Top temperatures about 4C to 5C (39F-41F).

Watch my full regional forecast here:

Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome back to Norfolk Live, where we'll have all the news, sport, travel and weather updates for the county from now until 18:00.

Norwich City are out of the FA Cup - we'll have more on this shortly. 

And after a grey and gloomy start to the day, will we see any sunshine... Elizabeth Rizzini's forecast appears next.

First - feast your eyes on the fiery skies of last night's sunset: 

Shane Long caps his 100th appearance for Southampton by bundling in a stoppage-time winner to see off Norwich in a dire FA Cup third-round replay.

That's it folks. Scroll back to see what's been happening across the county today.

Some of the news we covered included:

• Two charity workers are among thousands of British people in The Gambia who are trying to return home after the country declared a 90-day state-of-emergency
• 117 drivers breathalysed in Norfolk during a Christmas drink drive campaign failed the test
• Cromer Pier reopens to the public after damage caused by the recent storm surge is fixed 
• A grandmother from Harleston says she can now buy her granddaughter the trampoline of her dreams after winning £300,000 on a scratchcard 

The team are back from 08:00 but any breaking stories will appear here during the evening and overnight. 

Have a good evening.

Mariam Issimdar
BBC News

I've just heard from Jane Moore's husband Nick, who tells me that his wife and co-charity worker, Janet Clark, are now returning to their hotel in The Gambia after failing to get a flight home.

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The women run the charity Gambian Aid Through Education, external.

The Foreign Office is advising all UK nationals to leave the country after a state-of-emergency was declared in the West African state. 

Mr Moore, who's in the UK, says he's heard from his wife a couple of times today and both the woman are OK.

"They're quite stoical really," he said. "They were taken to the airport by Thomas Cook around midday but as they are 'flight only', not part of a package, they're not being put on a flight today so they've got a taxi back to their hotel for the night and will see what tomorrow brings.  

"Personally, I think as long as the state-of-emergency is in place, the advice from the FO will still be to come home so I think they'll be at the airport again tomorrow hoping to get a flight."

Mariam Issimdar
BBC News

A company which is taking on an extra 100 staff to service £6m worth of new and extended wind farm contracts has received 420 applications after putting out adverts for the posts yesterday.

Graham Hacon, chief executive of Great Yarmouth-based 3Sun, external, said it was looking to recruit locally.

"This level of demand for new roles is unprecedented for us," he said.

"It is important that, as a Great Yarmouth company, we recruit locally so our employees can live and work out of the area for our onshore and offshore projects all over the UK and internationally, in Germany and Denmark."

Yesterday, another local firm, SeajacksUK, won a contract with Scottish Power Renewables, external, which is to build the East Anglia One wind farm off the Norfolk and Suffolk coast.

Blair Ainslie, of SeaJacks UK, external, said the firm would be taking on 75 additional staff and the deal would help "to secure existing local jobs as well as creating new ones". 

BBC Weather

Staying mainly dry across the region, with clear spells in the southeast, but otherwise mostly cloudy. 

Temperatures will fall widely, perhaps as low as -2C to -5C (mid 20s F), in Essex, but 2C to 3C (mid 30s F) across Northamptonshire and northwestern parts of Cambridgeshire - with the potential of mist and fog patches.

Tomorrow will stay chilly under rather cloudy skies, with mist and fog slow to clear in northwestern parts of the region.

BBC Weather has more local forecasts.

Mariam Issimdar
BBC News

Cromer Pier, which closed after being damaged by Friday's storm surge, has been repaired and is open to the public. 

The Victorian structure was battered by the huge waves which hit the east coastline. 

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The local council says clean-up works will continue but the promenade in Cromer is fully open.

Missing handrails and access steps at various locations along the promenade still need repairing and there will be localised closures while these works are carried out. 

Bob Carter
BBC Radio Norfolk

The Cromer and Sheringham coastguard is warning people against picking up mystery items on the beaches of Norfolk.

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A bomb disposal team was called out at the weekend when a flare was washed up at Cley.

The coastguard says the very high tides of Friday might have washed other items ashore and its advice is to call for help if something suspicious is spotted.

Mariam Issimdar
BBC News

Two charity workers from Norfolk are among thousands of British people in The Gambia who are returning home after the Foreign Office changed its travel advice to the country.

Image source, Janet Clark/Facebook

 A 90-day state-of-emergency has been declared in the West African state over disputed elections. 

Janet Clark (pictured right), from Mattishall, is the co-founder of Gambian Aid Through Education, external and went out on Friday with Jane Moore (pictured left), from Taverham, on their annual visit.

They had taken out books, football shirts and computer equipment for local schools and were planning to visit several villages.

Mrs Clark set up the charity with her husband Len in 2006 after a holiday in Banjul. 

Mr Clark, at home in Mattishall, said his wife and Ms Moore were on their way to the airport to try and get a flight home. 

"Janet was calm when I spoke to her earlier, she doesn't get worried about these things," he said.

"I'm a little bit concerned obviously, but if she's feeling calm then I have to be too. We're both Christians so we trust in God to look after us."