:00:00. > :00:13.points and their mood is considerably
:00:14. > :00:21.For the first time in five years, Norfolk County Council is
:00:22. > :00:23.considering raising council taxes to meet a massive shortfall
:00:24. > :00:27.The deficit has more than trebled to ?17.5 million,
:00:28. > :00:30.Today the leader of the Conservative group voiced
:00:31. > :01:00.The lights must have days as they wrestled with the deficit at County
:01:01. > :01:04.Hall. Tories had the most councillors but Labour lead the
:01:05. > :01:09.council with a so`called rainbow coalition. So, why the current
:01:10. > :01:12.financial mess? Labour blame a 24% cut in government funding. The
:01:13. > :01:14.government has yet again imposed more duties on local government
:01:15. > :01:18.without giving us the funding. Every county council of a similar sizes
:01:19. > :01:20.making this sort of provision in their estimates for next year. The
:01:21. > :01:23.county council faces increasing pressure, not least on children's
:01:24. > :01:27.and adult social services, which account for four fifths of its
:01:28. > :01:31.spending. To cut back services like libraries or road maintenance
:01:32. > :01:35.wouldn't have much impact. It means council tax rises are a very real
:01:36. > :01:39.option. One makes assumptions that you are paying the money so you will
:01:40. > :01:44.get your garbage collected and they will amend the roads. The council
:01:45. > :01:49.has a huge amount of wastage and rather than keeping piling it on to
:01:50. > :01:53.the general public, they could do it inside themselves. It will be quite
:01:54. > :01:59.difficult for me to afford a rise in council tax. Norfolk is by no means
:02:00. > :02:02.alone. County councils across the region faces similar predicament.
:02:03. > :02:07.The question is how to solve it. As the leader has acknowledged here,
:02:08. > :02:10.the rise in council taxes they be the only option.
:02:11. > :02:12.Police investigating the death of a 61`year`old man following a fight
:02:13. > :02:16.in Northampton have issued a photo of a man they want to talk to.
:02:17. > :02:19.Detectives believe this man may have tried to act as a peacemaker.
:02:20. > :02:21.George Wedderburn also intervened in the fight last Sunday
:02:22. > :02:28.An elderly woman's in a critical condition after being run over by a
:02:29. > :02:32.It happened on Sutton Road yesterday afternoon.
:02:33. > :02:35.The 77`year`old pedestrian was airlifted to the
:02:36. > :02:49.In the past hour, a 43`year`old man from Romania has been charged with
:02:50. > :03:05.careless driving. In the football today:
:03:06. > :03:26.Peterborough are top of league one tonight. They beat Colchester.
:03:27. > :03:46.The result of the day in league two for Cambridge United:
:03:47. > :03:52.Good evening. We continue with a dry outlook for the rest of today and
:03:53. > :03:56.into tonight. There are one or two showers around that most of us
:03:57. > :04:01.should not see those. Tonight, some clear spells with temperatures down
:04:02. > :04:04.to 11 or 12 Celsius. Tomorrow is not looking too bad. It might be a
:04:05. > :04:09.little cloudy and we will not see the much in the way of sunshine but
:04:10. > :04:13.still quite bright. Medium to high level cloud which keeps the sun from
:04:14. > :04:19.poking through. Temperatures will reach 19 or 20 degrees along the
:04:20. > :04:23.coast. Certainly, feeling more pleasant with lighter winds for
:04:24. > :04:26.tomorrow. As we head into the beginning of next week, Monday and
:04:27. > :04:30.Tuesday are a little bit as appointing. We have the remnants of
:04:31. > :04:33.a front giving a small cloud but also perhaps some drizzly rain on
:04:34. > :04:35.higher ground. But from Wednesday onwards, it should become more
:04:36. > :04:39.settled and warmer.