A male pedestrian has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was hit by a van.

Emergency services were called to Buxton Road, Spixworth, shortly before 09:30 following reports of a crash at the junction with Ivy Road.

Police are trying to trace the van driver, which failed to stop at the scene.

The vehicle is described as a light blue Transit-style van, which was heading to Norwich, and may have some damage to the windscreen.

Anyone who witnessed the incident, or may have information, has been asked to contact Norfolk Police.

Two teenagers have been arrested after Rollesby Primary School was broken into and vandalised.

The school was forced to close yesterday for a clean-up operation after lewd graffiti was written on its buildings.

The teens, aged 16 and 17, and from the Great Yarmouth area, have been taken to Yarmouth police station for questioning.

A hospital's plans to create an emergency department for the elderly is welcomed by Age UK.

School children in Great Yarmouth are doing their bit for the town's Festival of Remembrance.

They've been making hundreds of poppy petals.

The red paper will fall from the ceiling of St George's Theatre, external during a two minute silence on Saturday, 11 November.

The commemoration was introduced in 2014 to mark the centenary of the start of World War One and has raised thousands of pounds for charity.

Mayor Kerry Robinson-Payne visited North Denes Primary School to see the pupils' handiwork and said it was important to get young people involved.

A consultant surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has led his team in carrying out the first robotic bowel cancer, external surgery at the hospital.

Irshad Shaikh says robotic surgery offers a minimal invasive approach.

"Dissection was more precise because the method offered a three-dimensional view and full freedom of movement," says Mr Shaikh.

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The story on the back page of the Eastern Daily Press today: Key statistics emphasise need for consistency and accuracy for Canaries.

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Norfolk's ambulance service says it intends to learn lessons from the death of a woman from Gorleston.

Jeanette Charity, 47, was found dead at her home two hours after she called 999 complaining of stomach pains and breathing difficulties.

The call handler wrongly assessed her level of need and failed to send an ambulance immediately.

Norfolk coroner Johanna Thompson found she died of natural causes.

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Robert Morton, chief executive of the East of England Ambulance Service, said: "Regrettably human error in healthcare means that quite often there are significant consequences and it's something we intend to learn from."

A public consultation starts today, external into plans for one of the UK's biggest offshore wind farms.

The Vanguard site is situated 30 miles (47km) east of Bacton.

The Swedish energy group Vattenfall is behind the plans for 250 turbines, each up to 350m (1,150ft) high.

It says Norfolk Vanguard would not be visible from the shore.

Details of relay stations, underground cable runs and overhead cables will be outlined in the consultation.

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More than 4,770 emergency food supplies were handed out to local people by Norwich Foodbank, external in the six months between 1 April and 30 September.

Of this number, 1,448 went to children.

Foodbank manager Hannah Worsley told us that people are referred to them every week after something unavoidable, such as illness or delayed benefit payments, leaves no money for food.

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The food bank, a member of The Trussell Trust, external, has been providing three days' emergency food and support to local people since it was set up in 2010.

Over 46 tonnes of food were donated by the local community between April and September 2017.

Jeanette Charity was found dead by paramedics having suffered a heart attack, an inquest hears.

Network Norfolk

A Modern Slavery Summit will take place on Saturday, January 27 at Witard Road Baptist Church, Norwich, giving attendees a thorough grounding on what modern slavery looks like in the UK and how to spot the signs.

As reported in Network Norfolk, external, the newly launched Clewer Initiative, a project which forms part of the Church of England’s approach to eradicating modern slavery and the Eastern Baptist Association are co-hosting the Norwich summit.

Diss Express

Duncan Slater, of Scole, lost both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in July 2009, while serving in the RAF.

Since then, he's become the first double-leg amputee to ski to the South Pole, and complete the gruelling 156-mile Marathon des Sables. He now works for Walking With the Wounded.

Last week, Diss Town Council unanimously agreed to award him the title of Honorary Freeman.

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The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is to introduce the UK's first emergency department that's entirely dedicated to patients over 80.

As well as the new department, the hospital will also relocate the paediatric emergency department, and triple its size.

As reported in the Norwich Evening News, external, the expansion will be completed at the end of November, with further work planned for 2018.

A project to mark the centenary of Armistice Day is asking for help to make a sea of poppies, external.

The names of 15,525 men and woman who died in the conflict are listed on the county's war memorials, and next year each one will be remembered with a handmade poppy.

The Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norfolk Record Office and Norfolk Library Service have been commemorating the centenary since 2013, with more than 400 stories telling how war impacted on lives in Norfolk shared on a website, external.

They're asking for community groups, Norfolk residents and schoolchildren to help make more than 15,000 poppies for a display.

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Pupils from Blofield Primary School have been helping with the project.

The poppies can be made in any way, felt, wool, paper or crepe paper, and even hand-drawn.

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Police are investigating how a horse suffered burns on the top of its head and near its eye.

The horse, which is kept in a field off Main Street, Hockwold, received the injuries sometime overnight between Wednesday, 1 November and Thursday, 2 November.

As a result of the injuries, the animal developed colic which needed veterinary treatment.

Anyone which information is asked to contact Norfolk police, or Crimestoppers.

Norfolk County Council says it regularly speaks to care firms and consults them on the costs of care.

Private firms get about £17 an hour to provide carers to go to people's homes, but some providers claim they're struggling to survive and could go out of business.

James Bullion, executive director of adult social services at the county council, says the council pays providers more than most councils do.

"It's in line with the United Kingdom Home Care Association, external recommendations... in terms of up-rating that price, in 2016-17 we paid another 4%, in 2017-18 another 5%," he explained.

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The council-owned care provider Norse Care, which has 900 residential care beds and 500 tenancies, gets paid more.

Norfolk County Council say its needs the money because its costs are higher, but the council and Norse Care will be looking at the contract.

Norwich Evening News

A broken nose and City's broken run - Ivo Pinto expects a long fortnight ahead, external, reports the Norwich Evening News today:

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Care firms in Norfolk claim the industry is close to crisis, and the county council isn't doing enough to help.

Jo Ardrey, from Apple Homecare in Blofield, has worked in the home care industry for around 20 years, and she says she's never seen it as bad as it is today.

In the last year, at least three care providers in the county have left the industry or gone bust.

The private care providers who do work for Norfolk County Council get paid a fixed rate of just over £17 an hour to provide care.

But Ms Ardrey says they need more money, and recruitment is really difficult;

"If you want good quality care you do need to pay for it and we do pay over the odds... it's trying to retain the care workers, they're under-valued but they're highly skilled, they do a job district nurses used to... but health and social care do not meet in the middle to fund it", she explains.

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Norwich Evening News

The Norwich Evening News today: Plans to move the Mile Cross centre to a new location near the NDR and airport.

The newspaper reports that the recycling centre, on Swanton Road, is rented by Norfolk County Council but the contract expires in 2021, external.

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The head teacher of Rollesby Primary School says she's confident the school will be back to normal tomorrow.

Louise Hinton mobilised staff for a clean-up operation after the school was vandalised some time between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

"This is a close community... the entire outside of the school had been covered in the most lewd, disgusting graffiti... it was really shocking", she said.

Fortunately, the culprits used chalk, not paint. and didn't continue with their work when they entered the school.