Updates for Monday, 15 February 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Tuesday
Goodbye from the Norfolk Live team. We'll return tomorrow at 08:00.
Don't forget to get in touch if there's anything happening in your part of the county that you think we should know about. You can send us an email, or a tweet, external or get in touch on Facebook, external.
Dan Holley
BBC Look East weather
Scattered wintry showers will fade away, leaving a cold and dry night. There will be a widespread frost, with icy patches.
Temperatures will fall as low as -5C (23F) in rural spots.
Image source, BBC WeatherA cold, frosty and icy start to Tuesday. It will be dry, with sunny spells.
Temperatures reaching 7C (45F). There's more information on BBC Weather.
Thanks to BBC Weather Watcher Freddie the Fenman for today's big picture, at the top of the Norfolk Live page.
Image source, Freddie the Fenman, BBC Weather WatcherWe're always looking for photographs of Norfolk that we can use as our "big picture".
So if you've got any snaps that you'd like to share with the rest of the county, please send them to us on email.
A collision between six vehicles on Thorpe Road, near to City Heights, Norwich, is causing traffic delays.
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A leading agency for independent inquiries has been appointed to lead a review into unexpected deaths at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, external.
Image source, Geograph/Andy ParrettVerita will examine, external how the trust investigates deaths and learns lessons. It will also examine how the numbers of unexpected deaths compare with national rates.
Concerns had been raised following an increase in the number of mental health patient deaths, with figures showing a rise from four to six a month between 2013 and 2015.
A man who led police on a "low-speed pursuit" across two counties after taking a tractor had depression and wanted to go back to prison, a court heard.
Nathan Lovell, 25, of Wisbech, took the Puma Case tractor from a farm in west Norfolk in January.
He was given an eight-month prison sentence and disqualified from driving for 28 months, at Norwich Crown Court today.
The stories making the news today:
Work has begun on a new multi-million pound food and health research centre in Norfolk.
The Quadram Institute will be built in the heart of Norwich Research Park, one of Europe's largest single sites for research in food, health and environmental sciences.
When completed in 2018 this new centre will work closely with the food industry and healthcare services to transfer its scientific knowledge into practice.
Greater Anglia, external has just tweeted news of rail delays:
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A Norwich woman, who's lived with bipolar disorder for 10 years, says services for mental health patients are worse now than they were a decade ago.
Jessica Goldfinch says she's not had access to a psychiatrist for a couple of years and no longer has "things that kept her ticking along", such as being checked up on and proactively contacted by a community psychiatric nurse.
The government has announced what it claims is the biggest shake-up of mental health services across the NHS in a generation, and say a million more people would get the help they need.
The back page of today's Norwich Evening News, external:
Image source, ArchantIt was on 16 January that 25-year-old Nathan Lovell took a Puma Case tractor from this farm in west Norfolk, damaging a gate and crops before police were alerted.
This led to a "low-speed" pursuit by officers from Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, and a police helicopter.
Lovell, 25, travelling at speeds of 10mph (16km/h), drove for an hour towards his home town of Wisbech, where he jumped from the vehicle in Oakroyd Crescent and ran off.
He was given an eight-month jail term at Norwich Crown Court today, and disqualified from driving for 28 months.
The front page of today's Norwich Evening News, external:
Image source, ArchantFormer servicemen and women looking for mentoring or job vacancies will be able to match their skills with businesses as a new website goes live.
Image source, Getty Images/AFPMore than 50 business representatives have pledged their support to the site, allowing military leavers access to training and new work opportunities.
VETS East, external, which was launched last November, is encouraging anyone about to leave the armed forces, or those who have left and are struggling to find work, to register on the website.
Mike Liggins
BBC Look East
Norwich Crown Court has heard that a man who led police on a "low pursuit" chase across two counties after stealing a tractor had depression and wanted to go back to prison.
Nathan Lovell, 25, of Trinity Road, Wisbech, who appeared on a video link from Norwich prison, was out on licence after a previous offence.
On 16 January, he took a Puma Case tractor from a farm at Tilney St Lawrence, west Norfolk, driving it to Wisbech where he jumped from the vehicle while it was still moving.
The tractor was stopped by a kerb and came to a halt in front of a house.
The death of a three-year-old boy accidentally killed by his mother the first time she drove a car was an "appalling tragedy", deputy coroner Nicholas Holroyd said at an inquest.
Mr Holroyd told the parents of Liam Turner, who died when he his mother struck him near the family home in Watton on 7 June last year, that "they had his profound sympathy."
Lyndsay Turner, 34, and Stephen Turner, 37, chose not to comment following the hearing. In a statement issued shortly after their son's death they said they were "devastated by the loss of our darling little man... life will not be the same without him."
A mother who accidentally killed her own son by running him over had asked her husband to teach her to drive and was using the car for the first time.
Lyndsay Turner, 34, of Adland Road, Watton, who didn't have a provisional driving licence or insurance, decided the move the Citroen C4 hatchback a short way to its parking space, under the supervision of her husband Stephen, 37, who was outside the vehicle.
The inquest into the death of three-year-old Liam Turner heard how neighbour Amy Jones saw Mrs Turner pulling into the space in a "stuttering manner" and heard Mr Turner shouting "stop".
Mr Turner moved Liam from underneath the vehicle, and drove him towards the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital before flagging down an ambulance. Liam was airlifted to the hospital but couldn't be saved.
Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent
Representatives from Norfolk. Suffolk and Cambridgeshire have agreed to further talks about a joint bid for East Anglian devolution.
Following a meeting with Communities and Local Government Secretary this morning, all sides agreed that progress has been made.
I'm told that an agreement in principle is likely to be in place within weeks
An inquest has heard how a mother accidentally struck and killed her three-year-old son with her car while learning to drive.
Lyndsay Turner, 34, was pulling the Citroen C4 hatchback into a parking area near her home in Adland Road, Watton, when she hit her son Liam as he played nearby.
The three-year-old suffered a serious head injury and irreversible brain damage, and died at the accident and emergency department of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Deputy coroner Nicholas Holroyd recorded a conclusion of accidental death.
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