Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Needham Market FC, external's home match tonight against Grays Athletic has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. 

Bloomfields has failed a pitch inspection this morning and the tie will have to be rearranged for a undetermined date. 

The Marketmen put together an eight-game unbeaten spell in November which saw them move away from the relegation zone, but are currently on a four-game losing streak.

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Class A drugs with an approximate street value of £16,550, including more than 1,000 wraps prepared for sale, were seized by Suffolk Police, external in December.

Image source, Suffolk Police

More than £4,000 in cash was also seized and 17 people arrested, of whom seven were charged.

Det Ch Insp Barry Byford said: "These arrests show that our work to target drug dealers, including those who travel down from London to Ipswich to sell their drugs, is having a positive effect."

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Prof Stephen Hawking, external has been named as guest speaker at a conference in October organised by Headway Suffolk, external.

Image source, Getty Images

The charity says the world-renowned scientist and subject of Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything, external, has accepted its invitation to speak as inspiration to others.

Chief executive Helen Fairweather says: "It is an unimaginable honour to have him speak at our conference and inspire others, especially those with a neurological condition." 

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

X Factor winners from 2011, Little Mix, external, will be headlining Summer Saturday Live, external at the July Course in Newmarket on 27 August.

Image source, Chuff Media

Since their success in X Factor, the band has sold over seven million records and had two UK No 1 singles.

Summer Saturday Live is the final event of the summer on the July Course, which last year saw performances from Kylie, Spandau Ballet, Tom Jones and the Kaiser Chiefs.

Guy Campbell
BBC Radio Suffolk

Supporters of Metfield Village Hall, external, near Harleston, have received more than £270,000 from the Big Lottery Fund, external to improve and expand the facility.

The money will be used to build a new café and drop-in centre to support people who may be feel isolated in a rural community with no pub.

Robert Steven, one of the fundraisers, said: "If we have a new lounge it'll be somewhere people can drop in, meet their friends, in a casual way without there having to be an organised function which is how typically the village hall works at the moment."

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

A building credited with helping secure Britain's victory in World War Two has been awarded a £1.4m grant to help preserve it.

Image source, Bawdsey Radar Trust

The transmitter block, built in 1938 on the Suffolk coast, is crumbling and letting in water.

The Bawdsey Radar Trust, external will use the Heritage Lottery Fund money to conserve the fabric of the building and increase the number of public open days.

Guy Campbell
BBC Radio Suffolk

Ipswich Town will host Bournemouth in the FA Cup fourth round, if they can see off Portsmouth in a replay in a week's time at Fratton Park.

Bournemouth beat Birmingham 2-1 at St Andrews in their third-round tie with substitute Glenn Murray scoring the winner in the final five minutes of the game.

Ties will be played between 29 January and 1 February.

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Insurers for the pilots of a helicopter, which crashed killing them and two passengers including Lord Ballyedmond, are not contesting responsibility, a solicitor has said.

James Healy-Pratt is representing the family of the peer, who was one of Northern Ireland's richest men, at an inquest into the deaths in Suffolk.

He said the family believed the crash, in March 2014, was "preventable". A crash report said the crew was unhappy about taking off in heavy fog.

BBC Weather

It will be chilly and bright at first, with blustery showers arriving later on. It will feel cold in a brisk westerly wind, with a top temperature of 6C (43F).

This evening and tonight will see cold, windy and showery conditions, though most areas should become dry by dawn, leading to the possibility of a frost in places. 

Minimum temperature: 1C (34F).

Kelly McCormack
BBC Radio Suffolk

Today's strike by junior doctors has led to 80 outpatient appointments being postponed at Ipswich Hospital, external, but the chief executive says no operations have been affected, and no effect on waiting times at A&E is expected.

Nick Hulme told BBC Suffolk: "We’ve got most of the hospital full this morning. There'll be discharges from first thing so we'll create some capacity but we're not expecting there to be any longer delay in A&E as a result of the strike. 

"All the doctors in A&E, because they're providing emergency cover, will be working as normal."

Kelly McCormack
BBC Radio Suffolk

Your headlines this morning:

• Eighty outpatient appointments at Ipswich Hospital have been cancelled today because of the junior doctors' strike, but no operations have been put off
• A jury inquest into a helicopter crash near Beccles which killed Tory peer Lord Ballyedmond in March 2014 is due to be held today
• The world's first fully operational radar station, based in Bawdsey, is to be restored with £1.4m in Heritage Lottery money

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

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