30/12/2016 Look East

Hello. news where you are.

A warning tonight from our hospitals.

Please don't go to accident and emergency unless your

Many are struggling to cope with a high number of older patients

and they are worried the situation will only get worse over New Year.

There has also been a record demand for ambulances over Christmas.

When the hospital says don't come to accident and emergency

unless your condition is life or limb threatening,

All beds here at the James Paget near Great Yarmouth are full.

at A are having to wait up to five hours to be seen.

Our staff are working relentlessly

under extreme pressure to provide safe patient care.

And are you able to keep up with that?

we have to do the right thing for our patients.

Northampton has no spare beds, Addenbrooke's and Cambridge says

it's treating many older patients and the Lister in Stevenage,

like many hospitals, is extremely busy.

But this year we've seen another factor, Christmas Day

and New Year's Day both full on Sundays which means

that effectively we have got two bank holiday weekends back to back

and that also has consequences for the wider health care system.

It means more perhaps look to the emergency services

rather than their family doctor when they fall ill.

The region's Ambulance Service has seen

a record-breaking rise in 999 calls this Christmas.

Between 7pm on Christmas Eve and 11pm on Boxing Day,

the service received almost 7000 calls,

up from just over 6000 the previous year.

The reason for the increase isn't clear.

Our crews are working 12-hour days and often

they're going from one patient to another patient to another patient

and then to a hospital and then to another patient and it's

The message from paramedics and hospital

doctors, make your GP, your local pharmacy,

your first point of contact if you fall ill.

Because the next few days will be a huge challenge

for those on health care's emergency front line.

Hundreds of people gathered on the beach in Leigh on Sea last

night to remember two teenagers who died in a car crash on Tuesday.

Paper lanterns and balloons were released and fireworks set off.

Reegan Knight and Liam Phillips were both 17 years old.

Southend United football club is also planning a tribute

I feel devastated, one of my close mates is not here any more.

I can't speak to him but I just want to give him

this lovely sendoff so he knows up there that we are looking out

A man has been arrested in connection with a burglary

in which police officers were threatened.

It happened in Wivenhoe on December the 13th when police

A 24-year-old man from Colchester has been arrested on suspicion

of aggravated burglary and possession of firearms.

House prices in Luton are rising faster than anywhere else

They've gone up by nearly 20% in the last year,

making it the biggest proportional increase.

The average price of a house in Luton

The Norwich City manager Alex Neil has refused to comment on a report

in the Sun newspaper that he will get ?2 million if he is sacked.

With eight defeats in the last ten league matches,

Very little is going right for Alex Neil just

at the moment and the last thing he needed was to find his name

and that of his chairman Ed Balls on the back page

The paper claims Neil will get ?2 million if he gets sacked.

The man himself wouldn't confirm or deny that.

It's like anything else, I've never sat here and spoke about

players' contracts and different things like that

so I'm not going to sit here and speak about my contract

Despite relegation from the Premier League last year,

But eight defeats in the last ten League matches this season

So, can the Canaries afford to sack him now?

It's much more important that Norwich try and get back to the

Premier League than it is maybe to have to pay a manager

what he's owed, it's as simple as that.

Because it would cost a lot more to stay in

the Championship or even worse, as we've seen with Norwich

in the past, to go down another league than it is

to maybe change the manager and it's a case of how long

Contrary to suggestions in the local media,

I don't bury my head in the sand.

I know exactly where we are, what's gone on.

I know that it's unacceptable and we need to do better.

I can assure you I feel that more than anybody else.

Mainly because I'm a winner, I want to win games,

Brentford tomorrow, Derby at Carrow Road on Monday.

Two wins and the pressure eases but if the results go against

the Canaries, it's unlikely to be a happy New Year for Alex Neil.

Mike Liggins, BBC Look East, at the Norwich City training ground.

And two of our teams are in action tonight.

Ipswich are at home to Bristol City and MK Dons are also

Now time for a look at the weather with Dan.

Mist and fog causing some problems across the region today. Poor

visibility but not everywhere. We have seen some sunshine as well.

This is one of our pictures. One of the lucky few that saw a glimpse of

blue sky through because of the day. I probably can't hear. But for many,

a lot of locale, mist fog. If you're driving this evening, Met Office

warning that the dense fog with visibility below a hundred in

favours. -- not for many here. Perhaps just the thing a little bit

towards the north-west of the region tonight, temperatures or maybe just

above freezing but locally, if you get a gap in the car, down 2-1 minus

two Celsius. Patchy frost here now. Not as cold as last night. A lot of

cloud tomorrow, mist and fog lifting to the day tomorrow so improving on

today with a bit of rain is here and there for the afternoon. The breeze

picking up as well, highs to seven to nine Celsius. Tomorrow evening,

as we run up towards midnight, not a lot changing, the breeze will pick

up, mostly dry, the odd spot of impossible and temperatures should

be around six or seven Celsius. Quite master this time of the year.

It is all change as we go into the New Year, a band of rain stinking

south towards the morning on New Year's Day, healthy buzz of rain.

Bit of uncertainty of how quickly the rain clears. It might turn

sweetie on the back edge. Sunday, looking quite wet through the

morning but mild as the rain" it will turn colder do because of the

afternoon. Hopefully something a little bit brighter later on in the

day. A cold frosty night to follow into Monday morning, the bank

holiday. Both Monday and Tuesday mainly dry days but cold with some

sunshine, chilly overnight, sharp frost on Monday night and parts of

Norfolk and Suffolk might see a wintry showers feeding in from the

North Sea. Thank you very much. That is it from me for this year. I will

see you next year. Have a happy New Year.