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Covid: Your questions answered on policing Norfolk in a pandemic

Norfolk Chief Constable Simon Bailey answered your questions on policing the pandemic in a live discussion with BBC Look East presenter Amelia Reynolds on Thursday.

21 January 2021

Norfolk Constabulary

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Gregory Hill struggles with police as they arrest him

Watch: Former head teacher resists arrest

Car crashes through barrier at level crossing.

Truck crashes through level crossing barrier

A four-wheel-drive car in a field of crops

Drink driver ploughs into crops as police give chase

Arrest of armed man in Surlingham pub car park

Pub car park 'rifle' threat arrest caught on film

Police chief warns about bending lockdown rules

Dashcam footage

Man's own camera captures crash after 130mph dash

Peregrine close up of its blue/grey head and top of its wings, which are folded back. It has yellow on its beak and around its eyes, and has a white neck and breast, speckled with grey/blue

Watch: Cathedral's first 2025 peregrine hatched

Adults bring meat for the fluffy chick after it hatches next to a live cam overlooking a city.

Jamie Kadolski sitting behind a desk in a police interview room

Video shows arrest of fake paramedic rapist

Footage shows the 25-year-old demanding the return of his mobile phone in a police interview room.

The stricken Stena Immaculate oil tanker surrounded by three tugs as it is towed towards Great Yarmouth.

Watch: Tanker holed in collision towed into port

Drone footage shows a huge hole in the side of the tanker where it was struck by a cargo vessel.

Red squirrels.

Two endangered red squirrels born at holiday park

The six-week-old red squirrel kittens are part of a breeding programme.

Jonathan Creak face down in the road as Police arrest him.

Watch: Man arrested after slashing ex-wife

Police officers can be heard shouting instructions to Creak before asking where his knife is.

A lorry on fire in Norwich city centre

Watch: Busy road closed after lorry fire

Barn Road at the bottom of Grapes Hill in Norwich was closed by the blaze.

Tony Martin

Archive: Tony Martin convicted of killing burglar

The BBC reports the end of Tony Martin's trial in April 2000 for shooting dead a teenage intruder.

Amankwah Forson shooting

'I pulled my hamstring sliding on the floor' - fan

A Norwich City fan gets carried away while celebrating the Canaries' comeback against Coventry.

Queen smiling into the camera in 1957.

Archive: Queen's first televised Christmas message

Archive footage shows BBC crews preparing to broadcast the speech live from Sandringham in 1957.

A grey seal with its head slightly above the water with its eyes, nose and whiskers visible

Watch: Birth of seal pup caught by wildlife camera

The camera live-streams from the heart of England’s largest grey seal colony.

Norwich City owner Mark Attanasio

Attanasio wants Norwich in top flight in five years

Mark Attanasio says he will "feel like I've failed" if Norwich do not get promoted in that time.

Three men including former New Zealand rugby player Zinzan Brooke are seen doing the haka in a pub.

Watch: Ex-All Black does haka in city centre pub

The pub-goer who filmed the footage says it was an "amazing surprise" to witness the dance up close.

A fireman walks away from flames at a fire at Carrow Road on 25 October, 1984.

Watch: Forty years since Carrow Road fire

Archive news reports show the extent of the damage to Norwich City's ground in 1984.

Norwich Library on fire in 1994.

Video shows 'total devastation' of 1994 library fire

Archive footage shows the aftermath of a blaze that destroyed a library and more than 100,000 books.

Ex-PM Liz Truss waiting to hear the result of the South West Norfolk count.

Watch: The moment ex-PM Liz Truss lost her seat

Slow hand claps can be heard as the candidates wait for Ms Truss to appear on stage.

Liz Truss on stage waiting to hear the election result

Slow hand claps for Liz Truss as former PM loses seat

People gathered to hear the election result for South West Norfolk waited for the former prime minster to arrive onto the stage.

Robby West with footballer Shane Duffy

Footballer avoids questions after drink-driving

The Norwich City player is banned from driving for three years.

Replica of 17th Century Spanish boat sailing towards Great Yarmouth.

Watch: Hundreds gather to greet Spanish tall ship

Aerial footage captures the moment a replica of a 17th Century boat sails into town.

Cars waiting at a flooded ford in Holme Hale, Norfolk.

Flooding: High water at Holme Hale ford

Video footage shows cars waiting at the edge of the ford as water rushes across the road.

CCTV footage of a car crashing into a postbox.

Car mounts pavement and crashes into postbox

The driver swerves to avoid a car turning a corner and narrowly avoids a mobility scooter.