Blur drummer Dave Rowntree held the University seat for Labour in Norfolk County Council elections.

He took 1,173 votes of the 1,997 votes (59%).

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UKIP have lost an an eighth seat on Norfolk County Council.

The Thetford East seat was taken by the Conservatives.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

The Liberal Democrats have won their first seat from the Conservatives in the Norfolk County Council elections.

Edward Maxfield has won the Mundesley ward in North Norfolk.

Lib Dems have also held the Eaton seat in Norwich.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

UKIP have lost seven seats across Norfolk in the county council elections, including all three of its Great Yarmouth seats.

Six of the seats were won by Conservatives while one was taken by Labour.

UKIP Member of the European Parliament Stuart Agnew (pictured), who is at the Great Yarmouth Town Hall count, said the party had suffered a "slow and stable defeat" .

"It is worse than we expected," he said.

In Norwich Labour have held five seats so far and won two seats from the Greens - Danny Douglas took Mancroft and Jess Barnard took Nelson ward. 

The count is continuing.

Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk

UKIP have lost two more seats to the Conservatives at the Great Yarmouth count for the Norfolk County Council elections.

Andy Grant took Lothingland and Ron Hanton took East Flegg,

That means that all three UKIP seats at Great Yarmouth have been lost.

Tim Addicott
BBC Radio Norfolk

Labour group leader George Nobbs has retained his Crome seat in Norwich in the Norfolk County Council elections.

Labour has also held Mile Cross.

Paul Moseley
BBC Radio Norfolk

Conservatives have taken two seats in the first results from the Breckland area in the Norfolk County Council elections.

Phillip Duigan took Dereham South from UKIP  

William Richmond held Dereham North.

The turnout was 29.36%. 

Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk

UKIP has lost a second seat in the Norfolk County Council elections.

Conservative Carl Smith has taken the Breydon division in Great Yarmouth.

Colleen Walker for Labour held the Magdalen division.

We reported earlier that UKIP has also lost a seat to Labour in Great Yarmouth.

Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk

Labour have taken a seat from UKIP in the Norfolk County Council elections in the first result for the county.

Mike Smith-Clare has won the Yarmouth Nelson electorial division.

Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk

There are nine seats in the Great Yarmouth area, with 33 candidates fielded, representing Conservative, Labour, UKIP in all divisions.

The Lib Dems have stood in three and the Green Party in two. Only four candidates are defending the seats they won four years ago as several across all parties have decided not to stand.

However, among the challengers, all three of Great Yarmouth Borough Council's political group leaders are all trying to win a seat in county hall.

With the largest areas being counted first, the full results here should be declared by 13:00.

The count is taking place at the Town Hall in Great Yarmouth (pictured).

Paul Moseley
BBC Radio Norfolk

At the Norfolk County Council count for the Breckland area at the Dereham Leisure Centre (pictured), votes are being verified. 

I'm told that we should get our first results later this morning, with the final tally expected between 14:00 and 15:00.

 Asked how confident he felt, Cliff Jordan, the current Conservative leader of Norfolk County Council told me: "I was born confident." 

Tim Addicott
BBC Radio Norfolk

The 13 divisions of Norwich are usually good hunting grounds for Labour and the Greens, but can the Conservatives, Lib Dems and UKIP make breakthroughs?

There are five seats last time around where the winning party had less than 10% of the votes cast: Town Close, Wensum, Thorpe Hamlet, Sewell and Mancroft.

Another factor is that there are also four seasoned councillors who have stood down at this election.

They are Andrew Boswell and Richard Bearman of the Greens and Sue Whitacker and Burt Bremner for Labour. Will this have an impact on party loyalty in the elections?

All will become clear when the results start coming in.

The count (pictured) is taking place at St Andrew's Hall in Norwich.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

Counting is due to start in the Norfolk County Council elections.

The authority was established by the Local Government Act in 1888.

The council, which is based in Norwich (pictured), covers the county of Norfolk and provides transport, education and social services.

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The county includes the city of Norwich, King's Lynn (pictured below) to the west and coastal resorts such as Great Yarmouth and Cromer.

It is made up of 84 councillors and at present no one party has overall control.

At the last election in 2013, the Conservatives lost control of the council for the first time since the late 1990s.

At that election the number of Conservative councillors dropped from 60 to 40.

UKIP took 15 seats, up from one in 2009, while Labour increased its representation from three to 14.

The Liberal Democrats took 10 seats, the Greens four and there was one Independent.

Image source, Rob Noble/Geograph

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BBC News

A warm welcome from the Suffolk Coastal vote, being held at the police headquarters in Martlesham. 

Hopefully the riot shield won't be needed.

Six of the seven richest people in East Anglia have links with Suffolk, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, external, which has been revealed this morning.

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Richest in the region is Kirsten Rausing, the Newmarket-based heir to the Tetra Pak empire and owner of Lanwades Stud, external.

In third place for the region, and Suffolk, is the Earl of Iveagh, a member of the Guinness family who lives on the Elveden Estate, external.

Ipswich Town Football Club owner Marcus Evans, pictured, has seen no change in his wealth, said to be £765m, the same as last year.

Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport

Norwich City captain Russell Martin admits he's expecting more players to be shown the door by the club this summer. 

The Canaries released seven players earlier this week including goalkeeper John Ruddy. 

They end the season with a match against QPR at Carrow Road on Sunday. 

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The City skipper told us: "We've under-achieved so every player in the dressing room is the same this season.

"I'm sure there'll be other people that want to leave or that the club want to leave but it becomes a bit more difficult when they're under contract." 

Thursday's announcement of Prince Philip's retirement from royal duties has led to people recalling visits he's made in the past to the county.

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Dr Paul Richards, chairman of trustees at True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum, external, which the duke has visited twice, remembers his first visit: "On the 75th anniversary of the British Legion, the west Norfolk branch, he attended an event on the Tuesday Market Place, but before the event, he called in at True's Yard.

"It was one Sunday morning and [he] met the trustees and was shown round the museum, and especially some of the ship models we had, because he had a very special interest in those."

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

The votes from yesterday's County Council elections will be counted this morning with both the UK Independence party and Labour expecting a bad day.

Overnight UKIP lost all nine of its seats on Essex County Council while Labour also made losses to the Conservatives.

Tory sources tell me that their canvassing suggests a similar result in Suffolk and Norfolk.

They describe the UKIP campaign as "barely non-existent" and Labour's as "lacklustre".

UKIP will be nervously watching the counts at Great Yarmouth and in the west of Norfolk where it currently has most of its seats. Labour has been putting a lot of its effort into shoring up its traditional heartland of Norwich.  

In Essex there was little sign of a Liberal Democrat revival. If there's to be any in Norfolk it'll probably come from the North coast.

We should have all the results by early afternoon.

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

Four years ago everyone was talking about Essex and UKIP. The party which, until then, had only ever done well under the proportional representation system of European elections, had suddenly burst onto the local political stage. 

Once again the words Essex and UKIP dominate this morning's headlines. 

The county which once boasted some of the strongest support for UKIP in the country has turned its back on the party. 

"People can't get enough of Theresa May at the moment, she can do no wrong," one 'Kipper told me at the start of the campaign. 

"It's a struggle getting our message heard at the moment," another told me only last week. 

 And from what I'm hearing, that picture is going to be repeated today across the east. 

The other parties tell me that in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, the UKIP campaign has been virtually non-existent. 

Voters in this Brexit-supporting region feel its purpose is done. Party workers are said to be disillusioned.

But while today's story may be the demise of UKIP, Labour should also be braced for a terrible day. 

The Conservatives tell me that Labour voters are switching to them in large numbers, something borne out by the results from Essex. And at the moment there's no sign of the predicted Lib Dem surge.