Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Greater Anglia will stage two 24-hour strikes in disputes over the role of guards and driver-only trains, on 3 and 5 October.

Mike Cash, RMT general secretary, said: "Greater Anglia have been given every opportunity to give a guarantee on the future role of the guard on their services.

"They have failed to do so and that left us with no alternative but to move to a ballot in the interests of rail safety.

"Our members voted by massive majorities for action but the company have ignored that and have failed to seize the opportunity to give us the very simple assurances on the future of the guards, and the guarantee of a second safety-critical member of staff on current services."

Sheffield United release a statement criticising the violence at Saturday's home game against Norwich City.

Michael Base collapsed at his home and was found in a diabetic coma when staff raised the alarm.

Support for tourism in Great Yarmouth is at an all-time low, according to the chair of the Maritime Festival, external.

Aileen Mobbs said: "The whole time I've been here we've had a tourism officer and department and that has been well supported and worked in great partnership.

"Now it looks like the partnership is falling apart because the borough council, in order to cut costs, are cutting tourism and as a seaside resort it seems nonsense."

UKIP group leader on Great Yarmouth Borough Council, Kay Grey, says cuts are on the table but not for tourism: "There's been nothing targeted against tourism as an individual area," she said.

"We are looking at making cuts wherever we can but nothing about tourism has been mentioned to me at the moment."

The council says it's committed to help grow visitor numbers and that it's not reduced funding or the number of staff committed to support tourism.

Norwich Evening News

Our final snapshot of the local papers today takes us to the back page of the Norwich Evening News, external:

Image source, Norwich Evening News

Norwich Evening News

Moving on to the Norwich Evening News, external, and here's their front page:

Image source, Norwich Evening News

Eastern Daily Press

Let's take a look at some of our local papers, and we'll start with the front page of the Eastern Daily Press, external:

Image source, Eastern Daily Press

Eastern Daily Press

And the back page of the Eastern Daily Press, external today looks like this:

Image source, Eastern Daily Press

Jay Lawrence
BBC Radio Norfolk

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Norwich City head coach Daniel Farke says he'll be taking tonight's trip to Brentford as seriously as any Championship game.

The Canaries take on the Bees at Griffin Park in the third round of the League Cup. City had their first away win of the season on Saturday, a 1-0 victory at Sheffield United.

Promotion, or avoiding relegation, has always been the sole focus for Norwich City teams in recent years, but Farke says the drama of cup football is worth getting excited about.

"I'm used to spending a lot of attention on cup games... I like the situation of the do-or-die game and the cup games and the cup runs.

"You can't have a draw, either you win and everything's great or you lose you're disappointed."

The East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) spent more than £14m on hiring private ambulance firms last year up from £6.6m in the year before, according to figures obtained by the Press Association through Freedom of Information requests.

Alan Lofthouse from the union Unison said: "The public shouldn't be concerned about the people attending them, because if they're paramedics, they're registered along with every other paramedic.

"The public purse is going to paying the profits for a company that's providing ambulance services rather than being invested back in better training and better working conditions for staff."

Kevin Brown, director of service delivery at the EEAST, said there are a number of reasons for the increase: "Over the last two years we've recruited 650 additional staff into the trust.

"Clearly many of our new staff needed to be trained, it takes three years to train a paramedic and there are times where those people need to be undertaking that training and that leaves us with capacity gaps.

"This is why last year our spend significantly increased."

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

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The Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable will "reach out" to voters in heavy Brexit supporting regions like ours when he delivers his party conference speech this afternoon.

I'm told the tone will be more respectful and less strident in an attempt to try to win leave supporting voters round to the Lib Dems' argument for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.

He will also talk about issues like education and the NHS to show the Lib Dems are more than a single issue party.

The change in tone follows concerns from party campaigners in our region that the Lib Dems' anger over last year's referendum was driving away leave supporters.

In a magazine article this month Norfolk MP Norman Lamb warned the party that "we have come across to many natural supporters as arrogantly dismissing their views".

Lib Dem sources tell me that Sir Vince has talked to Mr Lamb while preparing his speech.

But there will be no change in the party's anti-Brexit policy so it will be interesting to see if today's speech will really win over any voters in our part of the world.

Two hospitals in the county have seen a rise in the number of nurses from the EU quitting following last year's referendum.

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The James Paget, near Great Yarmouth, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn have seen the number of nurses quitting double.

It comes as the health service has excess vacancies of nearly 4,000 in the East region alone.

Hospitals have little choice but to try and recruit abroad.

A spokesperson for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital says the rise is down to English language tests becoming harder, rather than the Brexit result itself.

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

The rain overnight has left a legacy in some spots of a little bit of mist and one or two fog patches as well, but we should see plenty of sunny spells and it'll be mostly dry.

We've still got one or two showers, particularly out towards parts of Norfolk, but they should clear pretty quickly.

Elsewhere we have decent sunny spells.

There'll be a bit of fair weather cloud bubbling up this afternoon and temperatures will reach about 16C (61F).

Get a full forecast where you live from BBC Weather.

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Welcome back to our regular updates - the team here is poised to keep an eye across what's happening in the county and make sure we keep you informed.

You can join in too, by contacting us via the "Get involved" link at the top of this page.

It's a bit misty and murky out there at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the sun's going to break through a little bit later.

Kate Kinsella will be here next to bring us the day's forecast.

Volunteers came to the aid of a seal after its neck was trapped within a plastic flying ring.

That's it for our regular updates until we clock in again in the morning at 08:00, but any breaking news overnight will still appear here.

If you're just joining us, scroll down and find out what's been happening during the day.

Have a good evening - we look forward to your company tomorrow.

BBC Weather

Expect more showers this evening with some maybe heavy but most places should be dry by morning.

Overnight temperatures will vary significantly and depend on how much cloud cover there is, 7C to 10C (45F-50F) is expected under cloudy skies but where we get any breaks we could see something as low as 3C (37F).

Mist and fog patches are also likely.

Tuesday will see any overnight mist and fog eventually clearing to leave a largely dry day with highs of around 18C (64F).

Visit BBC Weather for the detailed forecast where you live.

Two men from Leicester have been jailed for a total of 13 years after admitting a series of more than 50 burglaries across seven counties, including Suffolk and Norfolk.

Image source, Suffolk Police

Lee Heane, 27, pictured left, of Radford Drive and Matthew Bryan, 25, of Glenhills Boulevard were sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court for seven years and six years respectively.

The burglaries took place between November 2016 and February 2017. The locations in the East of England were:

• Lavenham, Pakenham and Hadleigh in Suffollk
• Hingham, Costessey and Thetford (x2) in Norfolk

Thousands of pounds-worth of jewellery and a large quantity of cash were stolen during the burglaries, as well as three shotguns and cartridges from the Hadleigh property.

Commonwealth and former European champion Colin Oates announces his retirement from competitive judo.

Diss Express

Double Olympian and two-time European Championships medallist Colin Oates from North Lopham has announced his retirement, external from competitive judo.