Updates for Wednesday, 16 December 2015
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Thursday
We will be back tomorrow with more news, sport, travel and weather from the county.
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Chris Bell
BBC Look East weather
Tonight will stay dry and cloudy, although clear spells and mist patches will develop more widely later, with lows of about 10C (50F).
Tomorrow will start dry and bright with sunny spells.
BBC Weather has more local details.
People in Reepham will be able to pay the Scouts to deliver their mail as opposed to the Royal Mail this weekend.
Collection points for cards have been set up by the 2nd Reepham Scouts, external who are charging just 25p to deliver festive post.
The group is thought to be the first in Norfolk to offer the service, but it's something Scout groups have successfully done in other parts of the country.
Louise Holmes
BBC Norfolk
Older people from Norfolk have enjoyed an early Christmas dinner with the prime minister.
The group had lunch at Downing Street with David Cameron as part of a campaign to highlight the problem of loneliness at Christmas.
Derek Land from Age UK, external said it made him feel appreciated for his many years of volunteering.
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Norfolk Live
The main news stories this tea-time:
Zoe Applegate
BBC News
A quayside hotel in Great Yarmouth has closed after one of its owners was sent to prison.
The Star Hotel on Hall Quay is now being boarded up after Lloyd Thornton was jailed for three-and-a-half years for sexually harassing young women.
He filed for bankruptcy from his prison cell in the summer and it's understood staff have now been made redundant and the building is to be put up for sale.
Here is today's Norwich Evening News, external back page.
Image source, Norwich Evening News
Alex Dunlop
BBC Look East
I've been been finding out more about a new inquiry which is looking into why Abellio Greater Anglia , externalbranch line trains in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex were seriously delayed and cancelled for nearly two weeks last month.
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Norfolk Live
MPs have voted in favour of allowing fracking to take place under National Parks and other protected sites like the Broads.
Image source, Georgraph / Katie WalterThe draft regulations are controversial because the former coalition government said there would be an outright ban on fracking in national parks.
The government says extraction of shale gas would only be allowed 1,200m (3.940ft) below the ground, with drilling taking place outside the protected areas.
This afternoon will continue grey and cloudy with the odd break in that cloud but it will be mild as well.
Temperatures reaching 14C (57F).
BBC Weather has more.
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Norfolk Live
The East of England Energy Group, external says the sale of the port and outer harbour at Great Yarmouth could improve the position of the area's offshore energy sector.
The new owner is Peel Ports, external, which already owns the Port of Liverpool.
The ownership deal was announced yesterday evening.
The Lord Mayor and Sheriff of Norwich have both signed up to sleep under the stars, external for a night to help raise funds to support the work of YMCA Norfolk with homeless young people.
Image source, Network Norfolk
Mark Bulstrode
BBC News
As we told you earlier, two lesser octopuses have been washed up at Heacham.
They were discovered alive on separate beaches, and taken to the Sea Life Sanctuary, external at Hunstanton, where staff are hoping they will recover enough to go on public display.
The octopuses have been named Sue and Sunny after woman who found one of them and her husband.
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Norfolk Live
MPs are to discuss their demands for the new East Anglia rail franchise in the House of Commons.
The deadline for bids to run trains between Norwich and London ends tomorrow MPs are demanding faster and more frequest train services
Three companies are in the bidding: National Express, First Group and Abellio.
Here is today's Eastern Daily Press, external back page:
Image source, Eastern Daily PressMariam Issimdar
BBC Norfolk Live
The main news stories so far:
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Norfolk Live
MPs will vote later today on whether to allow fracking to take place 1,200m (3,937ft) under National Parks and other protected areas including the Broads.
Image source, Geograph / David DixonIt's expected plans to allow the extraction of shale gas in these areas will be approved.
Critics, including Labour and Greenpeace,have accused the government of a U-turn after it pledged an outright ban on fracking in national parks.
Mariam Issimdar
BBC Norfolk Live
A youth leader made an MBE for his work with children is to stand trial after denying a series of historical sexual assaults.
Henry Day, 76, of North Walsham denies 13 counts of sexual assault on three boys, all aged under 16 at the time, between 1969 and 1986.
Mr Day, known as Harry, ran seaside summer camps at the Young Citizens' Guild in Hemsby between 1973 and 1995 and will face trial at the end of February.
The company that runs trains across East Anglia is launching a joint inquiry with Network Rail, external into serious disruption last month caused by leaves on the line.
Image source, PAAbellio Greater Anglia, external cancelled hundreds of services between Norwich and Great Yarmouth and on branch lines in Suffolk and Essex after diesel train wheels were damaged by leaves.
A rail expert has been brought in to write the report.
Here is today's Norwich Evening News, external front page:
Image source, Norwich Evening News
