Updates for Friday, 21 July 2017
Family's tribute to murder victim
Court appearance for men accused of supermarket murder
RAF Marham "attempted abduction" no longer an active police investigation
Lifeboat helps three boats caught in heavy squalls
HSE investigation continues into factory explosion deaths
Canaries round-off German tour
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
Our news updates have now ended for the day and it's time for us to pack up and head home.
Scroll down to see what's been happening across the county today.
We'll be back tomorrow at 08:00... in the meantime, have a good evening.
Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather
A fine end to the day with some late sunshine across the BBC East region.
It'll stay dry overnight with temperatures dropping to 9C (48F).
Tomorrow will be fine and dry, with sunny spells. Cloud will increase later, with outbreaks of rain overnight, heavy at times.
Temperatures reaching 22C (72F).
You can find a more detailed forecast on BBC Weather.
A milestone in the building of the Northern Distributor Road, external (NDR) around Norwick has been reached today.
The New Drayton Lane has opened to traffic, replacing Holly Lane as the link between Holt Road and the Reepham Road.
As a result, Holly Lane will close permanently tomorrow.
Later in August, the B1149 Holt Road will close permanently south of Horsford, and all traffic re-routed on to the new link road.
The 12km (12.5m) dual carriageway, which runs from the A47 at Postwick, east of Norwich, round to the A1067 north of Taverham, is expected to be fully open by next summer.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision which left a pedestrian with serious injuries.
Shortly before 03:00 officers were called to the A149 at Redgate Hill, in Heacham, following reports that a red Citroen Saxo had hit a woman.
The woman, who's in her 20s, is in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge in a critical condition.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Norfolk Police.
An inquest into a double death at a Norwich factory has concluded with a narrative verdict.
Barry Joy, 56, and Daniel Timbers, 28, died in a "fierce fire" following an explosion in a paint-spraying booth at Harford Attachments in Norwich in 2015.
Image source, Family via Norfolk policeAt Norfolk Coroners' Court, the jury concluded that there were a number of failings at the plant including there being no record of appropriate training in the use of the booth.
It also said there were numerous sources of ignition both inside and outside the enclosed work area, and a lack of reliable company records of staff carrying out specific risk assessments for working inside the booth.
The two-week inquest heard evidence from 80 witnesses to the tragedy.
Image source, @ashleycashfieldIt's graduation week at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and students will be celebrating their academic achievements.
Each year, the UEA presents honorary degrees at the graduation ceremonies and the first of those today was to Norwich City chairman, ex-Labour MP and shadow chancellor and BBC Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ed Balls:
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Thousands of people have streamed through the gates of RAF Marham for the annual families and friends day.
It's a busy time for the west Norfolk air base. Next year it will become the home of the most advanced aircraft in the world, the F-35 Lightning.
As we reported last week, preparations are already under way for the arrival of the combat jets, with up to 1,200 builders, engineers and logistics experts cracking on with rebuilding the base.
The base is currently home to the Tornado, with crews currently on operations in Iraq and Syria.
The first Tornado squadron at the base in the 1980s was the 617 squadron - of World War Two Dambusters fame.
The first Lightning squadron has been named as the 617 squadron, and they'll fly into the base next year.
A scale model of the fast jet is on display at the base today, giving visitors a taste of what's to come.
A pedestrian who was injured in a crash early this morning has been transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
The woman, who is in her 20s, was hit by a car on the A149 at Redgate Hill, near Hunstanton, at around 03:00.
Police say she suffered life-threatening injuries.
A drink/drive campaign by Norfolk Police saw one man given a jail term and five drivers fail roadside breath tests.
Three-hundred drivers were breathalysed during the campaign. Drug tests were also carried out, with 20 drivers of the 84 who were tested providing positive readings.
A motorist who was stopped in the last hour of the campaign gave a roadside breath test of twice the drink drive limit. He was taken to Wymondham police headquarters, where a further test showed a reading of almost three times the limit.
Image source, PAThe man, who was also driving while disqualified and without insurance, was banned from driving for 49 months and sentenced to 14 weeks in custody.
Ch Insp Kris Barnard says the people caught "will have a minimum 12 to 18 month driving ban, which will have massive implications on their professional and social lives".
As the saying goes, "it's nice weather for ducks".
After showery outbreaks of locally heavy rain, this afternoon will become drier and brighter, with some sunshine.
Temperatures reaching 22C (72F).
Not deterred by the overcast weather, our Weather Watchers have been out and about.
Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent
The government has launched a consultation, external into the future of the Norwich to Liverpool rail service.
It's asking passengers for their views on how it could be improved as it works on the plans for a new franchise.
The service, which is operated by East Midlands Trains, runs 11 times a day and makes between 15 and 17 stops during the almost six-hour long journey between the two cities.
One of the options under consideration would see fewer stops to speed up journey times. Another option could see an end to direct services altogether, with passengers having to change somewhere in the midlands.
The new franchise is expected to start in August 2019.
An uncle and nephew charged with the murder of a man following a fight at a supermarket in Wymondham have appeared in front of a court.
Nick Rogers, 26, died on Tuesday after being critically injured in the incident at Morrisons on Norwich Road on Monday evening.
John Monk, 43, and his 19-year-old nephew Lee Monk, who are charged with murder and affray, appeared via videolink before Norwich Magistrates' Court this morning.
The two men, who are both from Wymondham, spoke only to confirm their details. They will appear before Norwich Crown Court tomorrow.
Further post-mortem tests are required to determine the cause of Mr Rogers' death.
It's a record year for the rare black-winged stilts, the RSPB has said.
This year has seen 13 of the black and white, pink-legged, waders fledging at sites across Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Kent - that's more than the total between 1983 and 2016. In the 22 nesting attempts by the long-legged birds in that time, only three fledged young.
Image source, RSPBFor the first time, the stilts have nested at the Ouse Washes reserve, external. When rapidly rising water levels posed a threat to the birds, reserve staff raised the stilts' nest to prevent it from becoming flooded.
Most commonly found in southern Europe, they were once an extremely rare visitor to the UK, but in recent years numbers have increased.
Jonathan Taylor, senior site manager at the Ouse Washes, says the birds like to nest in shallow lagoons and salt pans in the Mediterranean, so they've tried to create habitat to match this in the hope of attracting more of the black-winged stilts.
Image source, RSPBThe waders arrive from late March onwards, and do a "tour de Britain" before settling on their breeding site.
As soon as they start laying eggs, RSPB wardens are deployed to guard the nest around the clock, and the locations are kept secret to protect them until the chicks hatch.
The principal of Easton & Otley college, external, which has been rated inadequate, external by Ofsted, says he's confident things are being turned round.
The college provides courses for thousands of students at its campuses in Suffolk (top picture) and Norfolk.
Image source, GoogleDavid Henley said: "Our Ofsted visit came several months after we had ourselves recognised the need for improvement.
"We're absolutely determined to prove that we can use it [the report] and respond to it to give our students the best experience that we can.
"We would invite anyone who's got concerns to give us a call and we can reassure them."
Image source, Google
Tim Addicott
BBC Radio Norfolk
People living in three of Norfolk's market towns are being promised that financial services will be continued once their Norwich and Peterborough Building Society branch closes.
The N and P will shut in Dereham (pictured), Thetford and Fakenham later in the year following a decision by its owners, the Yorkshire Building Society.
But they've been saved from permanent closure by the Nottingham Building Society, which says it is also hoping to retain as many of the existing staff as possible.
Image source, GoogleNottingham Building Society's chief executive David Marlow says it's working very closely with the Yorkshire.
Quote MessageThrough November and December those branches will close but we're certainly hopeful we'll be open for business before the end of the year... in those towns the branch will only be closed for a few weeks."
David Marlow, Chief executive, Nottingham Building Society
Paul Moseley
BBC Radio Norfolk
An NHS trust is investigating complaints about the firm which runs its car park in Norwich after a patient was told to pay a £140 fine even though he'd bought a ticket.
In March, Brian Moore went to the Norwich Community Hospital for a diabetes check-up.
At the parking meter, where you have to put your licence number into the ticket machine, he'd entered the letter "O" instead of zero. This led to the fine.
The Citizens Advice Bureau took up Mr Moore's case. The Norwich Community Health and Care NHS Trust, external says Mr Moore, who's in his 70s, now won't have to pay the fine.
It says it's concerned about other complaints and will be taking up the matter with ParkSolve, external, which runs its car parks.
ParkSolve claims it did cancel Mr Moore's fine at the end of June after Mr Moore challenged it.
But he hasn't received any letter from them. ParkSolve has told me it will send him another one.
Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich City's head coach Daniel Farke has admitted that selling Jacob Murphy won't mean the club has a lot more money to spend on new players.
The winger has joined Newcastle United for a fee which could rise to £12m. The Canaries are still counting the cost of missing out on promotion to the Premier League last season. Several players have left Carrow Road this summer in a bid to reduce the club's wage bill.
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Farke told us: "It's important for our club to get some transfer fees and lower the budgets.
"We're always looking for some improvement of our squad but we won't make crazy things."
We have more details on the crash we mentioned earlier.
A woman in her 20s is in a critical condition in hospital after she was hit by a car on the A149 at Redgate Hill, near Hunstanton, at around 03:00.
She suffered serious injuries and was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.
The A149 was closed in both directions between the B1161 Oasis Way/Princess Drive and Hunstanton Road, but has now reopened.
Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
Norwich City beat German third division champions MSV Duisburg 2-0 in their latest pre-season friendly.
It was a confident display from The Canaries. Nelson Oliveira scored the first goal and was involved in the second, which ended up being an own goal.
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Duisburg had a player sent-off during the match but Norwich's head coach Daniel Farke admitted he had tried to persuade the referee to let the player stay on.
"I asked the referee if it was possible to change it to a yellow but he couldn't do this," Farke told us.
"I would prefer to play 11 against 11 because it would mean we would have more space for our game."
Two men are to appear before magistrates in Norwich later, charged with murder.
John Monk, 43, and his 19-year-old nephew Lee Monk are charged with the murder of Nick Rogers, 26, who died on Tuesday following an incident at Morrisons supermarket in Wymondham on Monday night.
No further action is to be taken against three other people arrested in connection with the incident.
