A paraglider pilot in his 70s was airlifted to hospital after reportedly flying into a cliff.
It happened at about 12:20 BST on Thursday at Weybourne Beach, near Sheringham.
"The man was transported by air ambulance to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for treatment," said a spokesperson for the East of England Ambulance Service.
The man's injuries were not thought to be life-threatening, they added.
A new Labour leader of a city council has been elected after the previous post-holder stepped down to concentrate on being a ward councillor.
Cameron Holloway, who represents the Newnham ward on the authority, was formally elected during the council's annual meeting on Thursday.
Mike Davey, the authority's former leader, announced his intention to step down in March, in order to also spend more time with his family.
Holloway, who served as the executive councillor for community safety, homelessness and wellbeing, said his priority "will always be to serve our community to the best of my abilities".
He added that he would "work tirelessly to ensure that every resident's voice is heard, to empower and support our communities, and to protect the environment – now and for future generations".
The Labour Party runs Cambridge City Council with 24 councillors; there are 12 Liberal Democrat councillors, five Green Party councillors and one Conservative member.
Rachel Wade, a Labour councillor who represents West Chesterton, was also appointed deputy leader of the council on Thursday.
Dinah Pounds, a Labour councillor who represents Romsey, was elected as ceremonial mayor of Cambridge at the same meeting.
Her deputy mayor will be Richard Swift, a Labour councillor for West Chesterton.
A proposal for the site of the former Body Shop headquarters in Littlehampton has been submitted for approval.
The plans involve the site at Watersmead Business Park, off Norway Road, which was also home to two former Amazon warehouses.
It would see the three-storey former Body Shop building demolished and warehouses redeveloped into nine separate retail units, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
The plans are set to be decided by Arun District Council on 28 August.
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The complete removal of the headquarters will reduce the "apparent bulk" of the site from Norway Lane and the A259, according to the plans.
They also suggest changes to pedestrian route and road layouts, planting areas including a pond, a bug hotel for increasing biodiversity, more parking spaces including electric vehicle bays and "sustainable" drainage infrastructure.
No objections have yet been registered by nearby residents or official bodies.
Plans for the demolition of the HQ were given the greenlight by the council in March this year, with the demolition beginning in May.
The Body Shop announced it was moving out of its Littlehampton site in October 2024 to relocate to Brighton, shortly after being pulled out of administration by the Aurea Group earlier that year.
Formal approval has been given to plans to build 93 new homes on a meadow, despite more than 500 objections.
Councillors at Fenland District Council agreed nearly two years ago to approve the development at Wenny Meadow, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, but official permission has only now been given after the agreement of conditions and financial contributions.
The 93 homes are set to include four five-bedroom houses, 25 four-bedroom houses, 40 three-bedroom houses, 20 two-bedroom houses, and four one-bedroom flats.
They are proposed to be part of a wider development to the east of the town of around 350 homes.
In planning documents submitted to the district council, the developer said it would "provide a large amount of public open space incorporating a [play area], ecological benefits including the creation of new habitat, as well as economic benefits including increases in local expenditure and support for jobs both directly and indirectly through the proposed development."
However, the project was met with backlash from people in Chatteris, with 551 formal objections lodged against the plans.
The application was recommended for approval by planning officers, who said: "By providing a new community with accessible open and green space, in a high-quality environment, with easy access to local services, the scheme will make a valuable contribution to improving the overall health of the local community."
When the application was considered by councillors in July 2023, they ultimately agreed to approve the plans, subject to the agreement of conditions and financial contributions.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, an update report published by the district council in April recognised a "significant amount of time" had passed since that planning committee meeting.
It said amendments to some conditions had been made and financial contributions from the developer towards services in the town had now been agreed.
Officers said they still recommended the plans should be approved and the district council has now agreed to formally grant planning permission for the development.
Before Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and threatened its sovereignty, the Canadian psyche was consumed with another major issue: housing affordability. With an election on the horizon, voters are wondering if any party has a plan to fix what has become a generational problem.
Willow Yamauchi says she was just a "regular" person when she and her husband bought their family home in Vancouver 25 years ago for a modest sum of C$275,000 – around C$435,000 ($312,000; £236,400) in today's dollars.
That same property is now worth several million.
In the city on Canada's west coast, Ms Yamauchi's story is as common as the rainy weather. The average price of a detached home in Vancouver in 2000 was around C$350,000. Now, it is more than C$2m.
"My husband and I were very privileged to be able to purchase a house when we did," the 52-year-old writer tells the BBC. As a member of Generation X, timing was on her side.
The same, she says, cannot be said for younger people, who – without "the bank of mom and dad" – are effectively priced out of the city they grew up in.
Vancouver, a cultural and economic hub with a population of less than one million, is often seen as the epicentre of Canada's housing crisis. A report by Chapman University in California last year listed it among the top "impossibly unaffordable" cities in the world.
But it is not the only Canadian city where the cost of homes is out of reach for many. Canada as a whole has one of the highest house-price-to-income ratios among developed nations.
In 2021, the average household income after taxes in Canada was around C$88,000, according to national data. That same year, the average home price hit C$713,500 – more than eight times higher. The gap is even larger in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver.
For many Canadians, housing is one of the top issues in the federal election, eclipsed only recently by US President Donald Trump and his tariffs on Canada.
Before Trump, concerns on housing affordability had boosted the Conservative Party, which has consistently been seen as the best equipped to fix the crisis.
But then a trade war with the US came along and it catapulted the governing Liberal party to the top of the polls.
Even with the Trump factor, the topic featured prominently in the two election debates this week. During the French language one, moderator and journalist Patrice Roy displayed figures showing how much home prices had increased in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in the last decade.
"I'm sure this won't come as a surprise," Mr Roy told the federal leaders, before asking for their plans on how they would fix the crisis.
Polls show young people are especially worried about the housing crisis and what it means for their future.
Speaking to students at the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Vancouver campus, it quickly became clear that the issue was top of mind for many.
Many said they have either opted to live at home during their studies to save on costs, or are paying anywhere from C$1,100 to C$1,500 for a single room near campus, often in a home shared with five or six others.
Emily Chu, a 24-year-old who is in her final semester at UBC, says that she at one point had to delay her studies by two years in order to work, as she struggled to afford paying both tuition and rent.
She now shares an apartment with her older brother, who works full-time and pays the majority of the rent. Ms Chu considers herself one of the lucky ones.
As for home ownership in the future, she says "that's not even possible" for most people her age. "Everybody kind of assumes that we can't ever own housing."
Young professionals with well-paying jobs, like Margareta Dovgal, are also priced out. The 28-year-old director at Vancouver-based non-profit Resource Works told the BBC that she has considered moving to the neighbouring province of Alberta due to its lower cost of living, despite being a lifelong and "committed Vancouverite".
Still, Calgary, Alberta's largest city, saw house prices increase by 15% in 2024 from the previous year as the city experienced its highest population growth rate since 2001.
The root causes of Canada's housing affordability crisis are complex. One of the main issues is a supply that has not kept up with a growing population, which has driven up costs for both buyers and renters.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the national housing agency, estimates that more than 3.8 million homes need to be built in the next six years to address the shortage.
Construction of new housing, however, has been well below that target, raising questions on whether Canada will meet this goal. Experts say barriers to ramping up building include the high cost and scarcity of land in urban areas, where most Canadians tend to live and work.
There are also regional barriers, like city zoning laws that prevent the construction of more affordable, higher density housing – including apartment buildings or multiplexes – in some neighbourhoods.
Daniel Oleksiuk, co-founder of the advocacy group Abundant Housing Vancouver, says his city is one example, where more than half of the land has historically been zoned for single-family homes.
"We've kept almost all of the land reserved," Mr Oleksiuk told the BBC. "There are whole neighbourhoods where all you have is three to five million dollar homes."
On the campaign trail, each major federal party has put forward a plan to fix the crisis, all with the goal of building as many homes as quickly as possible.
The Liberals, led by Mark Carney, said their aim is to build 500,000 new homes a year with the help of a new government agency called Build Canada Homes that would oversee and finance the construction of affordable housing in Canada – a plan similar to one implemented after the Second World War to house veterans.
Critics have questioned whether Carney's target is viable, as it would require Canada to more than double its current construction rate.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, vowed to tie federal funding to housing starts by rewarding cities that build more homes and penalising those that block construction – a carrot-and-stick approach.
Poilievre also promised to remove federal taxes on newly constructed homes in an effort to cut costs to would-be homebuyers. Critics, however, say this policy may have minimal effect, as most homes purchased in Canada are resold, rather than brand new.
Voters who spoke to the BBC say they welcome any plan to ramp up housing construction in Canada.
While much of housing is governed by provinces and cities, Ms Dovgal notes that the federal government has an ability "to lead persuasively" and implement measures that make it cheaper and easier to build across the country.
But others watching the issue closely caution that the steps proposed may not be enough.
Paul Kershaw, a public policy professor at UBC and founder of think tank Generation Squeeze, argues that politicians have failed to address the elephant in the room: the wealth older homeowners have generated off the housing crisis.
"The political bargain has asked younger Canadians to suffer higher rents and mortgages in order to protect those higher home values," Kershaw notes.
"None of the parties are really naming that generational tension," he says, adding that politicians may privately feel there is a political risk in trying to stall the cost of housing, and thus, older Canadians' assets.
Prof Kershaw calls this a "cultural problem", and says that parties should also focus on reducing costs for younger people as a way to alleviate this generational burden.
Fixing the housing crisis, he argues, is just as integral as asserting sovereignty and prosperity in the face of threats posed by Trump's tariffs.
The "dysfunction that has entered our housing market is disruptive to the well-being of the country", he says.
Until a fix is found, the possibility of homeownership still looks bleak for many.
Ms Dovgal contends half-heartedly that, other than moving elsewhere, "you have to win the lottery, or marry a multi-millionaire. These are kind of the options".
A number of victims' families have criticised a decision by the UK's highest court to allow the government to appeal a ruling on the Legacy Act.
The Legacy Act was brought in by the last government and came into effect in May.
Parts of the act including a controversial measure to give a conditional amnesty to suspects who gave accurate information were later struck down by the Court of Appeal.
Labour has started the process of repealing the act, but last October lodged an appeal seeking to challenge other elements of the ruling handed down by the Court of Appeal.
The Supreme Court has now granted the appeal, with the hearing expected to take place in the next couple of months.
Secretary of State, Hilary Benn said: "There were aspects of the Dillon judgement that raised wider constitutional questions that go beyond the Legacy Act and that is why the government is appealing."
Benn said that he was pleased with the Supreme Courts' decision to allow an appeal.
He said: "On legacy I will ensure that we have a system that is compliant with the European Convention of Human Rights, that's a pledge I've made and the government will honour"
In September, senior judges in Belfast ruled that the Legacy Act gives the UK government too much veto power over the disclosure of material by a new commission which is investigating killings.
That case was brought by a number of bereaved relatives, who argued the commission was not sufficiently independent.
Speaking on Thursday, Darragh Mackin of Phoenix Law said his clients would "relish the opportunity to again take a stand against this act on behalf of all victims affected by this egregious legislation".
He added: "It is disappointing that the Secretary of State has continued to utilise every available mechanism to try and uphold the Tory pet project of the Legacy Act.
"It is a testament to the importance of this case that the Supreme Court has confirmed that it will hear this case on an expedited basis, and indeed, before the end of June if possible."
The Legacy Act, which is opposed by Northern Ireland's political parties and victims' groups, was brought in by the last government and came into effect in May.
Labour has begun the parliamentary process of replacing the act, but said it intends on keeping the new legacy body, the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR).
Martina Dillon, who lost her husband Seamus after he was shot dead in a loyalist attack in Dungannon in 1997, said the appeal "only puts salt in the wounds of all victims".
"We warmly welcome the Supreme Court's decision to expedite this case and we look forward to defending our rights in London before the end of June."
The act was passed by the Conservative government in September 2023 despite opposition from Labour, all Northern Ireland parties, several victims' groups and the Irish government.
It created a new legacy body known as the ICRIR to take over all Troubles-era cases from 1 May 2024, including those on the desk of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The act shuts down all historical inquests.
The act's most controversial element, the offer of conditional immunity to suspects, has been disapplied following legal action by bereaved families.
The court ruled this part of the act was incompatible with human rights' legislation and the Windsor Framework.
In late July, the Labour government wrote to the Belfast courts abandoning an appeal against the striking out of the amnesty clause in the legislation.
But it later confirmed it would seek an appeal to challenge rulings on other aspects of the act.
A road dubbed the "worst in Oxfordshire" has been resurfaced, after users called on the authorities to make it safer.
Work to resurface the A417 between Faringdon and Wantage was carried out by Oxfordshire County Council last week.
The council said recent dry weather meant it was able to bring forward the programme of work, which had originally been planned for late June.
Locals had previously told the BBC that the road was decaying and prone to flooding, with vehicles often having to drive through deep potholes.
In a statement, the council said: "Persistent flooding in the area had made it difficult to carry out these much-needed repairs, which needed to be completed in dry conditions."
It added that further work to clean drainage systems was planned "for the coming months".
Talking before the resurfacing work, Steve Henry, who runs an MOT workshop at Mellor's Garage, said the state of the road was "shocking" and "disgusting".
Mr Henry, who used to own the garage he operates from, told the BBC: "It's cost me my business. I had to sell it last year. It was closed for a period of time, flooded.
"If you're on a motorbike or pushbike it's dangerous. Someone will lose their life," he warned.
Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Barber also raised concerns about the route, asking on his Facebook page: "Is this the worst road in Oxfordshire?"
"It's bad enough on four wheels, but imagine riding this stretch of road on a bicycle or motorbike," the post added.
A new portable oxygen delivery system has been developed to improve casualty survival rates for soldiers and civilians.
The system, which was developed by the Wiltshire-based Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the Defence Medical Service (DMS), weighs just 5kg (11lb) and is able to offer sustained oxygen supply in a safer and easier form than conventional gas cylinders.
"The ability to deliver oxygen at the point of injury represents a game-changing advance in battlefield medicine," said Major Andrew Maggs, DSTL military advisor.
The system works by taking air from the environment and removing nitrogen to leave a breathable oxygen-rich gas that can be delivered to patients.
Oxygen therapy is critical for trauma patients suffering from blood loss, head injuries and lung trauma.
By getting oxygen delivery directly to the point of injury, the system can dramatically improve the likelihood of survival and recovery.
"By reducing logistical burden and improving safety, the system will provide critical care in situations where every second counts," Major Maggs explained.
Dr Paul Hollinshead, DSTL chief executive, added: "In operational terms, this system will reduce the logistical strain on supply chains while improving battlefield care.
"The ability to also reuse the system with external power or replaceable batteries means it offers unparalleled flexibility."
It is not yet known when the system will be first used, but 15 prototypes will soon be ready to deploy.
DSTL is also working on a mass-producible version that can withstand rigorous military use.
The system currently costs £15,000 per unit but it is hoped a more cost effective version can be designed.
Reform UK's Ian Cooper is expected to become the next leader of Staffordshire County Council.
The Perrycrofts ward representative was chosen as head of the party's Staffordshire group following a meeting of Reform's newly-elected councillors.
It means he will likely be elected as the authority's leader when a vote takes place at the next full council meeting on 22 May.
Reform won 49 out of 62 seats on the county council during the local elections on 1 May, winning control from the Conservatives who had led the authority since 2009.
Mr Cooper said it was an "honour and a privilege" to be elected as Reform's group's leader.
"The people of Staffordshire have given us a clear mandate for serious change and we fully intend to deliver that," he added.
Councillor Martin Murray, who represents Cannock Chase, was elected as the group's deputy leader at the same meeting.
Reform UK won 41% of the votes in Staffordshire having had no councillors on the authority prior to the recent election.
The Conservatives went from 53 seats to 10, while Labour lost four of its five councillors.
The two remaining seats were won by the Green Party and the Stafford Borough Independents.
A man has been charged after an attack on an 88-year-old man in Evesham.
The elderly victim was badly injured in an assault at Murcot Turn in Broadway on 11 May and taken to hospital.
Adrian Paskin, 40, of Murcot Turn, Broadway, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, criminal damage and theft and is expected to appear at Worcester Crown Court on 9 June.
West Mercia Police said a 46-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the attack remains on bail.