But after weeks of dry, baking heat, weather forecasts predicting five days of rain for Norfolk will be greeted with plenty of relief.

The first showers are expected as early as Friday and are due to continue until Wednesday, according to BBC Weather.

The rain will finally break what has been one of the driest and hottest spells in years, which has left farmers frustrated, wildlife struggling and seen much of the country placed under a hosepipe ban, with an official drought declared.

At the end of last month, the Environment Agency announced that Norfolk was........

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