Harleston super slimmer is a real jewelpublished at 17:09 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
When Sandra Forder first became a Weight Watcher, external at Harleston, she lost over 59 lbs.
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Harleston super slimmer is a real jewelpublished at 17:09 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Image source, Diss ExpresCar driver dies after vehicle collides with housepublished at 17:05 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
The driver of a car has died after his vehicle left the road and collided with a house.
The incident happened shortly before 02:30 yesterday, when a blue Peugeot 106 travelling from North Walsham left the B1150 Norwich Road at Westwick.
Image source, GoogleThe male driver, who was in his 20s, was taken to the Norwich and Norwich University Hospital, before being transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge where he died last night.
Damage was caused to the house, which was unoccupied at the time.
Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
Tiny foal steals heartspublished at 16:34 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local LiveHe's just two weeks old, but already Amos has stolen the hearts of staff at the Redwings Horse Sanctuary, external in south Norfolk.
The tiny donkey arrived at the charity's headquarters in Hapton near Tasburgh last week, along with mum Matilda and dad Jeremiah, after their owner struggled to look after them due to health issues.
Image source, Redwings Horse SanctuaryAmos was so small that he had to be carried from the horse box into his stable. After a quick look around, the long-eared lad was soon playfully jumping around and suckling from mum.
Image source, Redwings Horse SanctuaryThe Hapton site is closed to the public, but it's hoped the donkey trio will join another donkey herd at one of the charity's visitor centres in the future.
Image source, Redwings Horse SanctuaryThe foal is only the fifth donkey to arrive at the Sanctuary in the past ten years, says chief executive Lynn Cutress.
Quote MessageTo say his arrival has caused a lot of excitement would be an understatement... everyone is absolutely smitten with Amos."
Lynn Cutress, Chief executive, Redwings Horse Sanctuary
Recruitment drive to deliver help to mums with mental health issuespublished at 16:01 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
More staff are needed to help deliver a new specialist service aimed to helping women with complex mental health problems in Norfolk and Waveney.
The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, external was recently awarded £2.5m to help care for pregnant women and new mothers with serious mental health difficulties.
As well as providing support for mums with severe post-natal depression, the service will also offer pre-conception counselling to women who already have a mental health condition.
Image source, PAAn estimated 500 women in Norfolk and Waveney have severe perinatal mental health need, with a further 3,000-5,000 with mild to moderate needs. These women currently receive care from midwives, health visitors and secondary mental health services.
The trust has launched a recruitment drive for a specialist team in Norfolk and north east Suffolk, including consultant psychiatrists and a psychologist, mental health nurses, a social worker and nursery nurse.
Health centre 'requires improvement'published at 15:34 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
A healthcare watchdog has told a Norwich medical centre that it needs to improve in some aspects of its services.
The Wensum Valley Medical Practice, external at the West Earlham Health Centre was given the "requires improvement" rating by the Care Quality Commission, external following an inspection on 12 October 2016.
Image source, GoogleThe centre, which cares for around 8,500 patients, was given the rating for the service it offers to older people and those with long-term conditions, families, working age people, and those experiencing poor mental health.
On a positive note, it found that staff treated people with compassion and dignity, and that services were organised to meet people's needs. The CQC report also said that the practice was "well-led".
In-form City ace hails his partner in crimepublished at 15:13 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
The back page of the Norwich Evening News, external today: Jerome ends the Canaries' long wait for victory on the road.
Image source, ArchantPositive vibes at Norwich Citypublished at 14:19 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Rob Butler
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich City manager Alex Neil faced the press today ahead of the Canaries' trip to Wigan Athletic tomorrow night.
There is a positive vibe around the Colney Training Centre after three straight wins for City, the latest coming at Cardiff on Saturday.
Neil says Dutch winger Yanic Wildschut will be available to play against the club he was signed from on transfer deadline day. The manager says there was no "gentlemen's agreement" between the two sides preventing him from making a quick return to the DW Stadium.
Midfielder Alex Tettey will be missing through suspension, he picked up his tenth yellow card at Cardiff. Youssouf Mulumbu is likely to deputise after returning from Africa Cup of Nations duty with DR Congo.
Wide-man Matt Jarvis is also in the squad, he's yet to feature this season for the first team after several injury problems.
'Miracle' baby's parents 'ever grateful' to medicspublished at 14:16 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Helen Burchell
BBC NewsEarlier, we told you about little Daphne-Louise Walker, a "miracle baby" saved by fast-acting medics who rushed to help when her mum went into labour at home.
Shona Fordham had an umbilical prolapse, a condition which threatened to cut off the oxygen to her unborn child, suffocating it.
Image source, Walker FamilyThey saved her baby's life and Ms Fordham and partner Jamie Walker said they'll be "ever grateful" to staff from air ambulance charity Magpas, paramedics and midwives for all they did.
"We've never seen so many people in an ambulance," Ms Fordham, from Friday Bridge, said.
Magpas medics stayed with their patient in a land ambulance and "did not leave the hospital and waited outside the theatre room until they knew Daphne was OK".
Image source, Walker Family"[Staff at the hospital] were really surprised she was still alive when we got into theatre as this is a very rare thing to happen and the fact it was as home and they kept her alive the whole way to the hospital was incredible," Ms Fordham said.
"We were told she should not have survived, let alone been perfectly healthy, all thanks to the medical teams involved."
Magpas staff sent a card to the family at King's Lynn Hospital, saying they were "thinking of them".
A spokeswoman for the charity said it was "an absolute joy that everyone's well and that Daphne, a lovely little girl was born safely".
"That's what we're here for," she added.
Wedding day of her dreamspublished at 13:59 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
The front page of the Norwich Evening News, external today: Cancer-stricken Norwich bride's unforgettable day.
Image source, ArchantCliff-top pensioner moves out of mobile homepublished at 13:27 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
After losing her battle with the council, Bryony Nierop-Reading has spent her last night in her mobile home.
The pensioner had been battling with North Norfolk District Council to stay in the temporary home at Happisburgh since her bungalow fell into the sea during the 2013 storm surge.
She was given a deadline of this weekend to leave. With the help of friends, she's now moved her belongings into a nearby container and the caravan has been flattened.
Ms Nierop-Reading will be living in a motor home on a field she owns for the next week or so while she continues to clear everything up.
Quote MessageThere's a lot of mess... I've already filled one six cubic metre container yesterday and I'm waiting for another to be delivered today... I'm in total shock".
Bryony Nierop-Reading
Hospital bed occupancy 'at unsafe levels'published at 13:08 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Figures obtained by the BBC show the number of patients on hospital wards in Norfolk has been at "unsafe levels" since the start of December.
To minimise the risk of infection and delays in getting treatment, hospitals should have no more than 85% of beds occupied.
The data, which covers the period from 1 December 2016 to 22 January, shows the figures for Norfolk's hospitals:
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, external - 99%
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital, external, in King's Lynn - 97%
- The James Paget University Hospital, external, Gorleston - 93%
Public consultation into A47 improvementspublished at 12:18 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Safety measures that are being installed on the A47 Acle Straight from next Monday come ahead of consultation into major upgrades elsewhere on the road.
The £400m worth of improvements to the A47 include:
- Dualling the A47 between Norwich and Dereham
- Improving the A11/A47 Thickthorn junction
- Dualling A47 between Norwich and Acle Straight
- Improving junctions in Great Yarmouth, and reconstructing the Vauxhall roundabout.
The six weeks of public consultation on these works are to take place in the spring.
Safety work to begin on A47published at 12:12 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Work to improve safety on the A47 Acle Straight between Norwich and Great Yarmouth s to begin next Monday.
The safey work includes improving traffic signs, road markings and kerb alignment at the A47/A1064 roundabout (pictured).
Image source, GoogleOther work includes improving the warning signs, road markings and hazard posts at farm accesses around Wherryman's Way. There will also be improved warning signs at the Halvergate junction.
Men's deaths 'not linked'published at 11:40 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Police are treating the death of a man in Dereham as unexplained.
Officers were called to a property on Boundary Close, on Friday afternoon, following concerns for the safety of a man.
On arrival, they discovered the body of man. A post-mortem has proved inconclusive.
Norfolk police say they are not linking the incident with the death of a man in Boyd Avenue in the Toftwood area on Sunday.
Parents' story of daughter's mental health strugglespublished at 11:22 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Returning to the story of mental health, which is featuring on Panorama on BBC One at 20:30 this evening....
Nearly a quarter of beds have been closed at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, external in four years, and the trust has seen nearly double the amount of unexpected deaths.
Sophie Gathercole has a personality disorder and has hallucinations. She tried to take her own life four times before she got an in-patient bed.
Her parents, Alison and Simon, live in Norwich. Her mother says she felt "huge relief" when her daughter was finally admitted to hospital.
"I felt the responsibility of keeping her safe had been taken away from me and somebody else was responsible," she said.
Dad Simon describes it as a "living nightmare" dealing with someone with mental health problems - "to see someone you love in a hopeless state and not really being able to help".
Her parents say staff at the hospital are doing all they can to help her, but say it's "almost a little bit too late".
Quote MessageSomewhere along the line somebody needs to sit down with these people and say look - these are the issues, let's do something about it - because there's a long line of my daughters out there all waiting to do the same thing."
Simon Gathercole
Dijjks' debut display is major boostpublished at 11:16 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
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Image source, ArchantMan to be quizzed after body is foundpublished at 10:55 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
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Image source, ArchantHospitals' bed occupancy 'above safe levels'published at 10:34 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
The number of patients on hospital wards here in the county has been above the level deemed to be "safe", according to figures obtained by the BBC.
Image source, ThinkstockThe data, which covers the period 1 December 2016 to 22 January 2017, shows:
- 100% occupancy at Ipswich Hospital, external
- 97% at the West Suffolk Hospital, external in Bury St Edmunds
- 93% at the James Paget Hospital, external in Gorleston, which serves patients in the north of the county
The maximum level which is considered to be safe is 85%.
New Canaries praised by bosspublished at 10:23 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
Jay Lawrence
BBC Radio NorfolkNorwich City manager Alex Neil commended his deadline day signings after the 1-0 victory at Cardiff on Saturday.
Image source, Getty ImagesBoth Mitchell Dijks and Yanic Wildschut had just four days to prepare since arriving.
It was The Canaries' first away win since 1 October.
"His first game in English football was tremendous," Alex Neil said of full-back Dijks (pictured).
"He absolutely dominated that left side. I think Yanic showed flashes of what he is capable of, but it was a difficult game for wide players."
Norwich are now 7th in The Championship, just three points off the play-offs.
Cuts to mental health services 'add pressure' to voluntary organisationspublished at 09:53 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2017
The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, external features on the BBC Panorama programme tonight as part of its investigation into the state of mental health services.
It's being used as an example of how spending cuts forced a major reorganisation.
The Reverend Canon Paul Daltry, who runs the Ipswich Winter Night Shelter, external for homeless people where some have mental health issues, says the cuts put pressure on them.
Image source, Ipswich Winter Night ShelterQuote MessageWe're going to see more people dying, more people on our streets, we're going to see a gradual breakdown in those who are most marginalised in our country."
Reverend Canon Paul Daltry, Ipswich Winter Night Shelter
