03/04/2017 Look East

Essex Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver

Terror outside and Essex nightclub, police appealed for witnesses. The

woman from Norfolk who made a remarkable contribution to the art

of photography. And there is lots of dry weather on the way courtesy of

high pressure. All the details in your weather for the week ahead.

who ploughed into revellers outside a nightclub.

It happened near the Sugar Hut, in Brentwood, the venue made

famous by the TV show The Only Way Is Essex.

Police say it happened after a disturbance in the early

hours of yesterday, involving about 20 people.

Saturday night, just after 3am, a car mounts the kerb and drives

Three people were struck by a hit-and-run driver

during a brawl outside the club made famous by The Only Way Is Essex.

The Sugar Hut was a key venue in the show that started the careers

of stars like Joey Essex and Amy Childs.

Police said three people were hurt, one with serious injuries.

Eyewitnesses couldn't believe what they saw.

On the pavement, they started spilling out onto the road.

The Sugar Hut security tried to break it up, but they were just

Obviously, a couple of people were really badly

I phoned for an ambulance and the police.

The following morning, police patrolled the High Street.

They've described it as an isolated incident and are urging anyone

with mobile-phone footage to contact them.

The three people that were taken to hospital are thought to be

in a stable condition and their injuries are not thought

And as you heard in that report, the police are keen to hear

As GP surgeries across the region face the challenges of staff

shortages and rising patient demand, one in five practices in Suffolk

The aim is to reduce bureaucracy and paperwork,

allowing doctors more time to see patients, and make the job more

I have a few moles around that have started to concern me slightly.

Here, they're proud of the quality of care they give, but they also

recognise that being small has its downsides.

Which is why this surgery is joining 11 others in a partnership.

It will employ all the staff from all the practices,

giving them the chance to use their collective muscle

The simple things, from the accountancy costs

to the Human Resources department, getting medical indemnity,

our insurance that sort of protects us from litigation,

They're all things that could be taken away from us

from a day-to-day management, but also, financially saving

Half of all GPs in Suffolk say they intend to retire

And for a practice like this, that poses a real challenge.

And it's that pressure, not budgets, that's really behind

the new partnership, called Suffolk Primary Care.

It's hoped that staff, in future, will have the opportunity for more

flexible working and better career progression, making them less likely

There are specialist nurses within practices

and if I could perhaps tap into those opportunities to go

and spend time with those nurses who are working with their practice

If we're offering something that they can come back

and learn from us, then everyone's winning really.

The partnership insists that patients will still see the same

GPs, the same familiar faces, and surgeries will retain

It is, they say, a first for Suffolk and if successful,

a model others may well choose to follow in the future.

As tourism bosses try to lure more visitors to the region,

Britain's most easterly location is set to become a tourist

attraction, after ?1 million was secured to fund its makeover.

The Government money will be used to revamp Ness Point, in Lowestoft.

The council hopes to turn it into an attraction similar

I've been coming to Ness Point for 20 years now and it never seems

to get much prettier, but maybe ?1 million might

Plans are still a bit sketchy, but there could be

The signage along the promenade will be improved.

And at North Deans, a cultural event space will be created.

This is fantastic news for Lowestoft.

It comes hard on the heels of a couple of other successes.

It will enable us to invest and to make a real difference here.

But is all this going to be money well spent?

We found some very mixed opinions today.

There's nothing really that much here, is there?

It's a shame, really, cos it's like Land's End and that.

You don't want to commercialise it as much as that, but that's nice.

Think I could find better things to do with that.

Designer Wayne Hemingway was in Lowestoft recently.

He's helping to regenerate the other end of town -

But the man who made his name with the fashion label

Red Or Dead had advice which could apply here too.

One of the things that Wayne Hemingway said is that people

love to take selfies these days and they need a place to do that.

People want to come here, but are often disappointed when they do.

The ?1 million can't come soon enough, surely.

And the timetable now, well, details about that

are also quite sketchy, but the hope is that this project

Mike Liggins, BBC Look East, at Ness Point.

The remarkable contribution made by one woman from Norfolk

At the beginning of the last century, Olive Edis

It wasn't just that she was a woman in a man's profession,

she broke new ground in her technique.

And now she's the subject of a BBC documentary.

Rankin is one of the world's most successful fashion

In a special documentary, he visits Norfolk to uncover

the remarkable story of a photographer who laid

the foundations for what photographers do today.

She is Olive Edis, one of a very small group of pioneering women

She photographed the likes of politicians, Prime

It's here in the seaside town of Sheringham where Olive would

spend her family holidays when she was young.

She would later open her first studio right here, on Church Street.

She was ahead of her time, experimenting with autochromes,

the first commercially available colour process.

As a budding entrepreneur, she designed and patented

the DiaScope, a unique way to view her beautiful portraits.

By making most of her money from high-earning clients in London,

she was able to fund her studio and photograph more local

Alistair Murphy is the curator at Cromer Museum, which is home

to the largest collection of Edis's work.

From her death, her story has become a bit lost.

But the eight years that I've been working with the collection,

I've noticed that her popularity has grown again.

And she deserves to be very well-known.

She's, I think, one of the most important Norfolk residents.

Thanks to Rankin, and others who continue to keep her story

alive, those once forgotten photographs have finally exposed

Lee Milner, BBC Look East, in Norfolk.

And you can see the full story of Olive Edis on the BBC iPlayer.

The details of how to find it are on your screen.

Coming up now, the weather with Julie, but from the rest

Age is start with Cleopatra is a mighty mess, and outbreaks of rain

later from the West. Temperatures by the end of the night ranging from

6-9 C with lights south-westerly winds. Tomorrow, a lot of cloud with

outbreaks of rain, most of that is light and patchy. A lot of dry

weather, but not expecting sunshine and temperatures up to about 13 or

14 Celsius, but I think with the wind more northerly, it will feel

noticeably fresher. That is Tuesday, which ends on a cloudy note with

bits of pieces of rain around, probably breaks in the club not

happening until after dark. Wednesday, high pressure builds so

Wednesday showed be fine and dry with decent sunny spells, although

later, the cloud thickening enough to produce spots of light rain.

Towards the end of the week this high pressure stays in charge. The

difficulty is judging how much cloud is caught up in its circulation. On

Thursday, once the mist and fog is gone, fine and dry with decent sunny

spells, more cloud than the map is showing. And a repeat performance on

Friday. A nice day when the mist and fog has cleared. In a moment, the

National forecast, but this is the outlook for next weekend. Further

spells of is remaining settled. It will feel

fairly warm and dry as well. Good evening. Some rain spreading in

across the Atlantic overnight. As it does so we will see some fresh

Atlantic air following on from behind. The pollen levels will drop

but the temperatures will