Jay Lawrence
BBC Radio Norfolk

Norfolk captain Chris Brown says the abandonment of day two against Cumberland shouldn't affect the outcome of the game.

Norfolk bowled the northern side all out for 219 yesterday in their first innings, before amassing 16 runs with the bat at the start of their second innings.

The game was then abandoned due to the weather.

Cumberland lead the hosts by 41 runs ahead of the last day of the Manor Park Festival.

Play resumes at 10.30.

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Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

We may have quite a cloudy start this morning, but we should see some decent spells of sunshine as we head through the course of the day.

We could also see a little bit of rain, the cloud thick enough to produce that the further east you are.

Top temperature: 21C (70F).

Watch my full forecast for the BBC East region:

Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

Hello and welcome to another day on Norfolk Live.

The team is poised, fingers hovering over keyboards, ready to bring you the latest news from around the county.

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Another cloudy morning, but will it brighten up later? Kate Kinsella's weather forecast follows shortly.

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Our live news updates have now come to an end and will resume at 08:00 tomorrow.

Here's a quick recap of what's been making the news today:

• Police are linking ram-raids on two supermarkets
• F-15 jets in "near miss" off the Norfolk coast
• Paralysed man says he's "ready to die"

Scroll down to see more on these and other stories... any breaking news for Norfolk will be featured here overnight.

We hope you have a good evening.

A cloudy night, with further patchy light rain and drizzle, although some places will stay dry.

Temperatures falling to 13C (55F).

Any light rain will ease through the first part of tomorrow morning, with largely cloudy skies at first. The cloud will break up a little throughout the day, with increasing amounts of sunshines.

Temperatures reaching a high of 20C (68F).

There's a detailed forecast where you live available from BBC Weather.

Image source, BBC Weather

A trawl through the archives has revealed these photograph taken today in 1926 featuring teatime on the Broads for this group of holidaymakers.

Image source, Getty Images

Later, or maybe it was earlier, it was time to play music with home-made instruments.

Image source, Getty Images

As the day closes in, these women hauled in their boat for the night... seems a lot of effort was also going into puffing on a cigarette.

Image source, Getty Images

Jill Bennett
BBC Radio Norfolk

Shopkeepers in Norfolk are being warned to be vigilant following two ram-raids within a week.

Last Monday, a raid on a cash machine in Wells-next-the-Sea left a gaping hole in the side of the Co-op store.

In the early hours of this morning, thieves using a forklift truck targeted the Nisa store at Burnham Deepdale, taking the cash machine. It was later found abandoned with a stolen vehicle a few miles away.

Police say they are linking the two incidents.

A student from the City of Norwich sixth form says it's "cool" to be the county's first Young Laureate.

Joe Webb, 17, was chosen for the creative potential shown in his poem Peripheral Vision.

He'll now undertake an ambassadorial role for young writers in Norwich, England's first UNESCO City of Literature, and across the region.

Image source, Matt Higgins

Joe will also receive three poetry mentoring sessions, as well as the opportunity to perform his work at three events over the coming year, including the launch of the Young Norfolk Arts Festival in 2018.

Over 150 applications were received for the Young Norfolk Writing Competition, a partnership between the county council, Writers' Centre, Norwich, external, and the Young Norfolk Arts Festival, external.

Sophie Scott-Brown, of the Norwich Writers' Centre, says Joe's poem impressed the judges with its brutal honesty and raw emotion.

Jill Bennett
BBC Radio Norfolk

A new All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) will allow police officers in west Norfolk to get to places they'd never be able to get to in conventional 4x4s.

The ATV, complete with police livery, will mainly patrol Hunstanton beach, but it will also assist them in rural and hard to reach areas.

The specialised vehicle, which cost £9,500, will allow officers to get on to the beach more quickly.

"We have a problem in the summer season, children go missing on the beach, the tide is out, and the only way to access the beach would be for officers on foot going down to the shoreline," Insp John Bane said.

"This vehicle allows them to get there quickly and safely, pick up the children quickly and return them to their parents."

The ATV will be used around the year to assist searches in rural areas as it can cover the ground a lot quicker than other vehicles.

Being far lighter than other 4x4s, and with a lower ground pressure, the vehicle will do less damage to crops and fields.

RAF Lakenheath has responded to a report revealing a "near miss" off the Norfolk coast involving two F-15 jets from the Suffolk base at the beginning of the year.

First Lieutenant Elias Small, chief of public affairs for 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, said: "The 48th Fighter Wing cooperated fully with this investigation and understands the importance of operating safely and within UK airspace regulations.

"As recommended by the UK Airprox Board, we have taken several steps to help reduce the risk of similar events in the future.

"First, we reviewed how we distribute information to our aircrews to ensure they are aware of all planned airspace activity.

"Second, we have reviewed our standard flight plans to ensure they are in line with airspace boundaries and reporting points.

"Finally, we are exploring a program for new airmen assigned to RAF Lakenheath to visit RAF Swanwick to help provide additional awareness of local airspace limitations and concerns.

"Our pilots and aircrew work to sharpen their skills every day, and we will continue to emphasize flight safety as part of our training programs."

The man, who was eventually evicted from his bed, says the hospital made it impossible to leave.

Now here's a fishy "tail" for you.

A mermaid from Norwich will compete this weekend against 25 other girls from across the country to be crowned Miss Mermaid UK... in landlocked Northampton.

Hannah Griffiths, from Acle, will be judged on her underwater mermaid poses as well as taking part in a catwalk and making a mermaid outfit out of recyclable materials.

Hers will be made out of plastic to raise awareness of the amount of rubbish in the seas, highlighting her marine conservation work.

But if you were wondering whether the motion of the ocean would make you feel like a fish out of water, Hannah explains why she has chosen to be a mermaid.

"I grew up by the seaside, I feel at home in the ocean, especially underwater - I find it really calming... as soon as I found out you could actually do it as a profession, I thought I have to do this."

Hannah trained in the Philippines and in June she went to the first ever mermaid camp in the UK.

The breeding site of a beetle which spends most of its time high in the canopy of large trees has been discovered in Norfolk.

The Black Longhorn Beetle, external, which is nationally scarce, favours dead alder stumps and branches, but occasionally visits flowers.

There had previously been no records of the beetle in Norfolk or Suffolk, until one was photographed on vegetation at Sutton Fen, external near Stalham in July last year.

This year, a photograph taken on 27 June showed one feeding on meadowsweet blossom at How Hill, external.

Image source, Michael O'Hara

After several visits by national longhorn expert Martin Rejzek and Norfolk Beetle Recorder Martin Collier, a breeding site was found in the bark of a tall dead beech tree on 9 July.

Beetle recorder Mr Collier is keen for the public to alert him to any sightings, external - with a photo - of the rare species, saying they're likely to be present at more sites in the county.

Remaining cloudy with outbreaks of showery rain, heavy at times. Some brighter and warmer spells may developing this afternoon, with temperatures peaking at 20C (68F).

We certainly had a mixed bag of weather over the weekend, as these photos from our BBC Weather Watchers show.

Late on Saturday afternoon this funnel cloud was captured by "tornadochaser" over the North Sea near Cromer.

Further inland, and several hours later, it was blue skies and sunshine.

And there wasn't much fun to be had at the fair in Hunstanton yesterday afternoon.

A mid-air near-miss between an RAF tanker and US F-15s is blamed on military air traffic control.

The new executive director of children's services is said to be a "first-class children's services director, with an impressive track record."

Norfolk County Council's managing director Wendy Thomson also says Sara Tough will "take forward the improvements that are already under way."

Ms Thomson says they are making "significant progress" in children's services which are currently subject to Ofsted monitoring and DFE intervention, and are committed to providing quality services for Norfolk's children and their families.

Here's what we know about the new director of children's services, Sara Tough, who takes up her position with the county council at the end of October.

• Sara Tough has held the same role with Dorset County Council for three and a half years
• In April, she took on the additional role of adult and community services
• She is a social worker by profession, with 32 years of experience delivering services to children and young people
• Is regional sector led improvement lead for the Association of Directors of Children's Services in the South West, and has spent four years as elected director on the board

Ms Tough, who plans to make a number of visits to the council before starting in her post, says she's delighted to be joining Norfolk County Council and has been "inspired" by its ambition and "determination to get stronger".

The county's new executive director of children's services has been named as is Sara Tough.

She is currently director of children's services at Dorset County Council and will take over from interim director Matt Dunkley at the end of October.

Image source, Norfolk County Council

The department has been beset by problems.

Last November, Michael Rosen resigned as head of children's services after criticism from watchdog Ofsted which said his department was not "good enough."

Mr Rosen had joined Norfolk County Council as an interim assistant director for early help in 2013 and became the director in September 2015.

In October of that year, Ofsted said the council had failed to significantly improve services for children in care after being rated "inadequate" in 2013.

Sheila Lock was then in charge of the department, following the retirement of Lisa Christensen.

We've been bringing you news of two jets from Lakenheath which were involved in a "near miss" with an RAF refuelling plane off the coast of Norfolk in January.

Here's a map showing exactly where the incident took place:

A report into the incident, external found that the two main causes were that the controller didn't effectively prevent the F15s from entering the airspace around the RAF Voyager plane, and the F15s entered the Air to Air Refuelling Area unaware that it was active.