Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Guests attending tonight's Gala Dinner at the Natural History Museum, external in London have got a real treat in store, as they'll see Ed Sheeran perform his only gig of the year.

It's East Anglian's Children's Hospices', external inaugural dinner, raising money for the Nook Appeal, which hopes to raise £10m for a new hospice at Framingham Earl, in the heart of Norfolk.

I've got lots of questions I hope we have the answers to by the end of tonight.

• Did Ed stick to the "formal dress" code?
• Did he debut any new songs?
• Did he have his photograph taken with Dippy the Diplodocus, who'll be visiting Norwich in 2018 as part of a year-long tour?
• And of course, most important of all, how much did the event raise?

We'll have coverage from the event later tonight.

Martin Barber
BBC News

Interesting ambulance discovery of the day... they can be quite rocky when riding in the back.

Nikki isn't finding this much fun, but fortunately we have plenty of bowls available!

One of the benefits of crispy, frosty mornings is the effect it has on our gardens.

Take a look at these images taken by some of our BBC Weather Watchers:

Nikki Fox
BBC Look East

So far today, community first responders from the East Anglian Ambulance Service have attended to 16 patients in the East of England.

The service as a whole has been called to 176 patients who have had falls today, and attended 22 road traffic collisions.

So far the service has had call-outs for 18 cardiac arrests.

Just another day...

Nikki Fox
BBC Look East

As of 13:00 today, the East of England Ambulance Service has received 1,223 emergency calls:

• 115 in Bedfordshire
• 169 in Cambridgeshire
• 383 in Essex
• 229 in Hertfordshire
• 177 in Norfolk; and
• 150 in Suffolk

Nikki Fox
BBC Look East

One of the things that's most striking about today is the social care that the East of England Ambulance Service crews provide.

They spent an hour and a half with Larry, who needed his wound glueing after he fell and banged his head on a radiator.

They then called social services, relatives, the GP, the sheltered housing unit and spoke to a neighbour.

It all takes time. It's their responsibility not to leave until they are sure he is OK.

We hope Larry is back to his old self soon.

The murder of an Essex woman in 1983 is one of nine unsolved cases that police in Suffolk are reappealing for help over. 

Image source, Suffolk Police

Diane Jones, 35, from Coggeshall was last seen at the front gate of her house as her husband parked their car in July 1983.

Her body was discovered three months later in a wooded area close to the A1093 in Suffolk. 

She was found to have a fractured skull, but Diane's killer has never been brought to justice. 

The murder is one of nine cold cases, external that Suffolk Police is still hopeful it can solve.

Kate Kinsella may have told us this morning that tonight won't be as cold as the last couple of nights, but it looks as if Suffolk Highways is taking no chances:

BBC Suffolk's political reporter Vikki Irwin (pictured right) has been allowed to leave the county for the day to head to Westminster. We'll hear how she got on at PMQs later.

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

As previously reported, the judges' picks for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are on show at the Ipswich Art School until the middle of January.

The exhibition also features the candidates for the People's Choice Award, which you can vote on, external until 10 January.

Our colleagues have written an article about the award - check it out.

I think this one's my favourite:

Image source, Daisy Gilardini/WPOTY 2016

Ipswich Borough Council says bin collection crews are very behind due to the low temperatures.

Residents have been told: "The brown bin contents have been freezing and the crews are having to shovel each brown bin to loosen the contents for tipping, which has added considerable time on their day."

Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury councils have shared this message:

Nikki Fox
BBC Look East

Up until 10:00 today, the East of England Ambulance Service received 771 emergency calls. Of those, 24 were R1 calls and 289 were R2s. 

An R1 or red 1 is a very serious call where a patient has suffered a cardiac arrest or stopped breathing. Two resources should be dispatched to these incidents where possible.

R2 is all other life-threatening emergencies and requires a response in eight minutes. 

Here's how they break down by county:

Seventy-six for Bedfordshire, 118 for Cambridgeshire, 219 in Essex, 139 in Hertfordshire, 113 in Norfolk and 106 in Suffolk.

Busy morning!

Martin Barber
BBC News

As our day with the East of England Ambulance Service crew continues, we're with Larry, who had a fall at his home in Watton.

As you can see he's doing fine now. He slipped off his push-along walker and banged his head on a radiator.

He was about to be picked up to go shopping when a taxi driver found him and called the ambulance service.

Larry says he was a rear gunner in a Lancaster and ran 42 missions in his plane, called Olivia.

He's really apologetic for having "bothered" the ambulance crew⁠⁠⁠.

"I feel a bloody nuisance at the moment," he said. "You've got people who are seriously ill."

Pirate radio station Radio Caroline could soon be rocking the waves once again after applying for an AM licence from Ofcom. 

Image source, Getty Images

The ship-based station is hoping to be back broadcasting on the River Blackwater by next year, 50 years after the 1967 Marine Broadcasting Offence Act was introduced. 

The proposed AM signal would serve Essex and Suffolk in addition to its current internet and digital radio operation. 

Peter Moore, who runs Radio Caroline, said: "We think it would be very fitting that, 50 years after the law intended to silence us once and for all, we show that it didn't work."

The station, immortalised in Richard Curtis's film The Boat That Rocked, was founded in 1964 to play pop music all day in a time where broadcasting was dominated by the BBC and pop was played for an hour a week.

A drug rehabilitation centre which was conceived following the murders of five women in Suffolk in 2006, and which officially opens today, has been described as a "lasting legacy" to the girls.

Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls had all battled with drug addiction before they were killed by Steve Wright in 2006.

The Hope Centre, run by the charity Talitha Koum, external, cost £500,000 to build, and it costs £800-a-week to stay there.

Jenny Frost, who runs support groups at the centre, said: "It's here now and this is a lasting legacy to the girls who died.

"We've sought to provide something positive out of it as a lasting legacy to them, so that other girls who are in the same position as them don't have to die."

The East of England Ambulance Service is hoping its taking part in a trial to improve response times will also lead to the target system being reviewed.

Kevin Brown, director of service delivery, said: "With the eight minute target, if we see someone within seven minutes and 59 seconds, it's seen as a success and if we get there at eight minutes and one second, then it's a failure, regardless of the outcome for the patient.

"What we would like to see as a measure is the outcome for the patient." 

Andrew Woodger
BBC News

As part of a trial, the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAS) control room operators are to get an extra 240 seconds to assess 999 calls.

It's an attempt to reach the eight minute response time target.

Kevin Brown, EEAS director of service delivery, said: "It's allowing us to target the right resource to the right patient. We have an extra 240 seconds to respond to that from the time of the call."

Suffolk Free Press

A woman was freed from the wreckage, external of her car by firefighters following a crash in Long Melford last night.

Felixstowe beach hut owners are up in arms because of a proposed rise in licence fees.

Suffolk Coastal District Council is recommending a 10% rise in fees every year for the next eight years.

Owners may also have to pay a £7,000 lease, granting access for a decade. Councillors will talk about the proposals next week.

Martin Barber
BBC News

John has been telling me that only about 8-10% of the workload with the East of England Ambulance Service crew is dealing with traumas. The rest is acute medical emergencies and care of the elderly, as we're an ageing population.

We're just approaching the hospital - it's taken about 25 minutes.

We're in no hurry as our patient is stable and comfortable. Upon arrival at the N&N the patient will be given an X-ray and ECG. 

It's not yet possible to take an X-ray on the ambulances, but some of the vehicles do have ultrasound facilities.