Updates for Tuesday, 20 October 2015
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Wednesday
Thank you for joining us for the first day of Norfolk Live. We hope you have enjoyed it.
We will back from 08:00 tomorrow, bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather updates until 18:00.
If you have a story that you think we should know about, you can get in touch via email, Facebook, external or Twitter, external. Goodbye from the Norfolk Live team!
Alina Jenkins
BBC Weather
Clearer skies at first tonight may give some of us the opportunity to see the Orionid meteor shower. Cloud will increase overnight with rain settling around dawn.
Temperatures falling to 4C ((39F).
Tomorrow will be wet with rain lasting into the afternoon. Feeling blustery in a brisk westerly wind. Temperatures will reach a high of 13C (58F).
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Norfolk Live
Norfolk police, external are appealing for information after three World War One and three World War Two medals were stolen from a home in Suton, near Wymondham, earlier this month.
Other items of war memorabilia were taken from a home in Hapton last week.
They included helmets from the Home Guard and American forces, and seven war medals.
BBC Introducing... in Norfolk
Ed Sheeran, external might be able to fill Wembley Stadium three times over these days but it wasn't long ago that he was playing to considerably smaller crowds.
Back in January 2011 he played at a house party on Dereham Road in Norwich, giving his first live performance of The A Team.
We were there to film it...
Nikki Fox
BBC Look East
A low-speed maintenance train derailment near Wymondham is causing disruption to rail services between Norwich and Cambridge.
Replacement buses are running between Norwich and Thetford, and a shuttle train will operate between Thetford and Cambridge. Journey times may be extended by up to an hour.
Greater Anglia, external says train services are not expected to resume until Wednesday morning at the earliest.
Rob Butler
BBC Radio Norfolk sport
A family of trainers from south Norfolk are celebrating after a brilliant showing at the Horse of the Year show in Birmingham.
Father and son team Allister and Oliver Hood both had winners: Allister was on board Our Cashell Blue who won Coloured Horse of the Year, while Oliver rode Chaplin to victory in the Lightweight Cob of the Year competition.
Image source, ES PhotographyAnother horse trained by the family, Bridgham, won Racecourse to Riding Horse of the Year with Sofia Scott (pictured) in the saddle.
BBC Travel
The A146 Loddon Road is blocked in both directions at Yelverton because of an accident involving a car and a bus.
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
Prince Harry made a surprise visit to north Norfolk today when he joined the Walking With The Wounded fundraisers, external on their charity walk.
Shannon Warby was shocked to see him walking through Walsingham earlier today, and offered him and his team-mates some freshly made sausage rolls.
Listen to her tell BBC Radio Norfolk's Matthew Gudgin about it:
A team of wounded veterans is walking across Norfolk as part of an epic 1,000-mile (1,600km) journey from Scotland to London.
Image source, Walking With The WoundedThe six wounded soldiers, external, who all have injuries sustained in the line of duty, were joined on their 15-mile (24km) trek across north Norfolk by Prince Harry earlier.
The Walk of Britain, external expedition set off from Scotland on 22 August and will arrive at Buckingham Palace on 1 November.
Hunstanton Town and Around
An aspiring clown from Heacham, external has always wanted to join a top class circus and today Smithdon High School student Tommy Rollason’s dream to perform with Britain’s Best Circus has come true.
Image source, Hunstanton Town and Around
Nanette Aldous
BBC Radio Norfolk
The stories in the news this afternoon:
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Norfolk Live
Veterans taking part in the Walk of Britain, external were joined today by a royal visitor.
Image source, The Chocolate DeliPrince Harry delighted the residents of Little Walsingham when he walked through early this afternoon.
The Walking With The Wounded team are walking across Norfolk, as part of their 1,000-mile trek, external from Scotland to London.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Norfolk County Council, external is to complain officially about the Ofsted report that rated its children's services department "inadequate".
The council rejects the conclusion it had lost touch with more than a quarter of its care leavers and is to enter the formal Ofsted complaints procedure.
The council said all cases had been closed with agreement as some children no longer wanted support or were supported by other local authorities and others were living with parents or wider families.
Buses replace some rail services after a train derails at Wymondham, according to a tweet from Abellio Greater Anglia:
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Caroline Kingdon
BBC Norfolk Live
More than 200 soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, external will march through the centre of Norwich tomorrow, as part of a series of homecoming parades.
Nicknamed "The Vikings" (pictured here in Cambridge), the battalion has completed five tours of duty in Afghanistan in the last decade, including a deployment in February this year.
Norfolk police, external advise people to arrive in plenty of time for the event. Local roads will be closed.
Nikki Fox
BBC Look East
Network Rail says a rail head treatment train has come off the tracks at Wymondham.
This is a train that uses a water jet to treat the tracks and remove leaves from the line.
It says it will soon update us on how long the line will be blocked for.
This is what Abellio Greater Anglia is tweeting:
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Hunstanton Town and Around
Day 59 of the thousand mile fundraising trek around Britain for Walking with the Wounded began in Hunstanton, external on Monday 19th October and the Mayor Andrew Murray, local residents and Year 7 of Smithdon High School, greeted the walkers and their support team.
Image source, Hunstanton Town and AroundPatrick Byrne
BBC News
Norfolk County Council is disputing the findings of the latest report on its children's services which labelled the authority "inadequate".
Inspectors said 16 children had no allocated social worker but 13 were overseen by a team manager when a staff member left suddenly.
Families always had access to qualified social workers, the council said.
