Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

After what looks like a promising start, cloud will thicken with persistent and occasionally heavy rain spreading north  through the morning. 

The rain will hang around the further north you are for much of the afternoon, but further south things will clear.

A cloudy end to the day for most of us. Highs today of 10C, that's 50F.  

Check the latest forecast for where you live with BBC Weather.

Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

Hello and thanks for joining us for Norfolk Live. 

I don't know about you, but I definitely woke up with that "Friday feeling", and only brightened up at the sight the early morning sunrise.

Sadly that sunshine won't last... Elizabeth Rizzin's forecast appears shortly, and you'l be needing your umbrella.

Stay with us today for the latest news from around the county. The top story we're following this morning is about PTSD - a woman from Norfolk says former armed service personnel are being badly let down by the government.

Click on the Get Involved button at the top of the page to let us know what's happening in your part of Norfolk.

Children from a primary school in Norfolk debate the merits of their chosen World Book Day characters.

The Old Bailey is told a care home failed to do proper risk assessments for trip to a Norfolk quarry.

That's all from the Norfolk Live team for the day... but if there's breaking news you'll find the details here.

Scroll down to see the stories we've brought you today, but here's a quick recap of a few:

• Old Bailey hears of " systemic failings " at residential home before a teenager drowned in a west Norfolk quarry
• Soul singer says  he's living "the worst nightmare" after daughter is diagnosed with brain tumour
• Not picking up your dog's mess is "more important than Brexit", says councillor

We'll be back at 08:00 tomorrow - have a good evening.

Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

Staying dry this evening with clear spells.

Overnight temperatures are expected to drop to 3C (37F) early on, but as cloud increases from the west they'll recover to about 7C (45F) by the end of the night.

Tomorrow will be rather cloudy with outbreaks of rain, some heavy, although it'll be come drier and a little brighter later, with further showers following.

Top temperature: 10C (50F)

Get the full forecast for where you live from BBC Weather .

We've had it all today, blustery winds, sunny spells and outbreaks of rain.

Many thanks to our BBC Weather Watchers for sharing their photos... I wonder if AndyP found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Councils across Norfolk dealt with more than 15,000 incidents of fly-tipping, external in 2015-16, according to figures released by Defra.

Great Yarmouth tops the table, with 6,588 reported incidents. The figures break down as follows:

• Norwich City Council - 3,643
• King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council - 1,905
• Breckland Council -1,255
• Waveney - 817
• South Norfolk - 689
• North Norfolk - 412
• Broadland - 407

The CLA, external , which represents landowners, farmers and businesses, is calling for stronger enforcement of legal action to help prevent fly-tipping.

Its members have reported more than 100,000 incidents across the CLA East region, including unwanted sofas, broken washing machines, building materials and even asbestos dumped on their land, says CLA East's regional director Ben Underwood.

If farmers and landowners don't clear up the rubbish, they risk prosecution for illegal storage of waste.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

The Essex Book Festival, external has started and runs throughout March, with Essex Serpent novelist Sarah Perry as the writer-in-residence.

Perry, who lives in Norwich and was born and raised in Chelmsford,  told BBC Essex how she researched her book which is set in the county.

Image source, Profile Books

"When I wrote a chapter set in February I would go down to Essex to see the countryside and coast in that month and come back and write that chapter, and did that each month," she said.

"I did that to make sure I represented this wonderful county and its natural landscape as accurately as I could."

Image source, British Library

Perry was the youngest of five daughters in a devout Baptist family.

Growing up with limited contact with contemporary culture, she spent her days with church-related activities, classical music, novels and poetry.

She says this early immersion in old literature and the King James Bible profoundly influenced her writing style.

Time now to look back through the archives.

This photo, taken in March 1969, shows jockey Lester Piggott (on the right) receiving driving tips from Graham Hill.

They were in Lotus Fords, on the Lotus test circuit at Hethel Airfield.

Image source, Victor Blackman/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Campaigners say cash-strapped councils are struggling to cope.

The Old Bailey has heard that a residential home had "systemic" failings over a "long period" before a 16-year-old boy drowned on a trip to a quarry in west Norfolk in July 2013.

Castle Homes Limited, which ran Castle Lodge home for young people in Cambridgeshire, admitted breaching health and safety over the incident in which Umar Balogun died.

Prosecutor Quentin Hunt told a sentencing hearing at the court today that the company had pleaded guilty in April last year.

Mr Hunt told the court that while there were "generic risk assessments",  individual assessments were not made for trips like the ones to Bawsey Pits.

He highlighted "inadequate" training and induction of staff, and said the company's failings amounted to "high culpability".

"The company was directly and immediately responsible for the trip from the home which resulted in the fatal accident," he said.

Two  support workers who faced charges  over the teenager's death were cleared, following a trial at King's Lynn Crown Court last month.

Judge Mark Dennis QC indicated he would reserve sentencing until after he had considered the case.

Network Norfolk

Following the retirement in September of Revd Canon Christopher Davies, Wymondham Abbey has announced that Catherine Relf-Pennington is to be the next vicar of Wymondham, external .

Catherine will be the 60th vicar of the church, which was founded in 1107. She is also the Abbey’s first woman vicar.  

Image source, Network Norfolk

A  new facility for food and health research in Norwich has finished a major stage of its construction today.

The last cement has been poured for the Quadram Institute, external on Norwich Research Park.

Once finished, it will be one of Europe's largest centres for food and health research. It will house research laboratories and a new endoscopy unit for the nearby Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which is expected to carry out 40,000 procedures every year.

Programme manager Nick Goodwin explains that they're trying to bring the research and the clinical staff involved in medical procedures closer together, and it will also be great for the patients.

Diss Express

It is thought the tree, in School Road, was damaged in Storm Doris, external last week, and is touching phone lines on the opposite side of the carriageway.

Image source, Diss Express

A bid by West Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group, external (CCG) to take on threatened healthcare beds at Cranmer House in Fakenham, in addition to the ones it already funds, has been welcomed by North Norfolk District Council.

Yesterday we told you how the  council had called on the North Norfolk CCG  to explain why it was looking to cut beds at the Fakenham care home, and also Benjamin Court in Cromer.

Image source, Google

Councillor Anie Claussen-Reynolds says it would be a "crying shame" to lose the Cranmer House facility, as it has "huge potential for other activities linked to supported care".

The care provided by Cranmer House for the town and surrounding area was "hugely important", council leader Tom FitzPatrick said, adding the council fully supported ways of ensuring its viable future.

In the past 10 years the number of drivers caught with children not properly strapped into car seats has fallen, according to Norfolk Police.

But the law on child car seats changes again this week, with new rules meaning the booster seats now have to have backs to them.

Iain Temperton is Norfolk's road safety boss and checks around 4,000-5,000 seats a year at events around the county.

He said: "Now you can only buy a booster seat with a back on it. It does more than a booster cushion.

"It has side impact which wraps around a child, there's some guides at the top for the seat belt to go through and it provides more comfort of the child.

"If they fall asleep they'll stay where they need to be."

A man in his 20s has been arrested as part of a murder investigation into the death of a man Norwich.

The suspect was arrested in the London area on 28 February on suspicion of assisting an offender.

The arrest comes after Steve Stannard received fatal stab wounds in Bowers Avenue shortly before 14:30 on 5 November.

The man has been released on bail to return to Wymondham Police Investigation Centre on 13 April.

A fifth man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Steve Stannard in Norwich last year.

A police cordon is currently in place near to the River Wensum in Norwich following the discovery of a body.

Police called to the river near to Wensum Street shortly after midday discovered a man in his 60s had died.

The death is currently being treated as unexplained, and a police investigation is under way.