Last month the Bernard Matthews company was sold to food tycoon Ranjit Boparan in a multi-million pound deal.

But the rescue package for the firm, which employs several thousand workers in Norfolk and Suffolk, means employee pensions will be hit.

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Regional officer for the Unite union, Steve Harley, says that the union had previously said that the turkey producer's "final salary pension scheme was closed in 2004 and that its members presently have an alternative pension scheme which is unaffected by the recent takeover".   

A 74-year-old former scout leader at a care home, dubbed the "orphanage from hell" in Bedfordshire, terrifed a boy during a care home trip to Bury St Edmunds.

John Cahill, from Bedford, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for sexual abuse he carried out at St Francis Boys' Home in Shefford.

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We can now report his sentencing, because a 'trial of facts' on offences proven to be carried out by another worker called James McCann has concluded.

The trial of Cahill heard evidence from one boy who said that during a trip to the abbey in Bury St Edmunds in the mid 1970s, Cahill undid a boy's seatbelt and opened the passenger door of his van, causing "tremendous fear".

The defendant, who was Scout Master, went on to molest the boy in a dormitory, until he was disturbed by two other boys, the Old Bailey heard at a trial earlier this year.

Ipswich's Luke Hyam suffers a setback in his knee injury recovery that is likely to keep him out for at least eight weeks.

It's feeling chillier and more autumnal here in BBC headquarters in Ipswich.

South Suffolk Laura has sent us a photo via BBC Weather Watcher to confirm the leaves are changing colour.

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Ipswich Town, external's physio Matt Byard has been explaining why Luke Hyam is going to need another eight weeks before he even makes it on to the training field.

“Luke took a blow to the outside of his knee at Cambridge and there was damage to a nerve," he said. 

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“There was a loss of sensation and muscle control. We hoped it would settle down but, just as we started to discuss surgery, Luke improved greatly and we were told he wouldn’t need an operation. 

“Unfortunately, the symptoms returned again and having seen a specialist, surgery was recommended this time. 

"Luke’s had the operation and we hope that will sort the problem."

Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk sport

There's mixed injury news for Ipswich Town, external as midfielder Luke Hyam is likely to be ruled out for another two months after undergoing surgery on a knee injury he suffered in pre-season. 

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David McGoldrick returned to training at Playford Road today for the first time since rupturing ankle ligaments in August, although he may be absent from the first team for a while longer.

Central defender Adam Webster was also back in training after recovering from a hamstring injury and should be available for Saturday's game at Blackburn.   

The mother of missing airman Corrie Mckeague says somebody else must be involved in his disappearance.

Greater Anglia is warning of delays to services between London, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk into this evening's rush hour.

BBC Suffolk's Steve Martin has been caught up in the problems at Liverpool Street and he sent us this photo...

All rail lines are currently blocked between Stratford and Romford while emergency services deal with an incident. 

It's affecting trains to and from Essex and disruption is likely until about 16:00.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after another driver died on the B1107 near Brandon yesterday morning.

Police said a red Ford Mondeo collided with a green Fiat Panda near the Thetford Road exit of the Thetford Forest High Lodge Visitor Centre at Santon Downham at about 05:00.

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One driver died and the other, a 33-year-old man from Thetford, was taken to hospital, where he remains under arrest.

Investigators are appealing for witnesses to the collision.

Suffolk Police are naming a pedestrian who was killed in a road traffic collision in Haverhill a week ago.

A red Audi A3 was involved on the A1017 by-pass at about 23:15 on Monday, 3 October.

The man who died, at the scene, was Peter Murray, 46, of Sorrel Walk in the town.

Officers are appealing for witnesses.

Police are called to dozens of incidents in which pranksters dress as "creepy clowns" to deliberately scare people.

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Promising AFC Sudbury defender Tyler French is hoping to earn a dream professional move after going on trial, external with Ipswich Town.

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BBC News

Here's a selection of Gainsoborough's work, starting with this view of Ipswich's Christchurch Park, probably painted in the 1740s:

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Gainsborough made his money painting portraits commissioned by wealthy people, such as the Cobbold family of Ipswich. This portrait from about 1752 show Mrs Mary Cobbold and Her Daughter Anne and it lives at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury:

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Gainsborough's self portrait from the National Portrait Gallery in London:

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And another of his landscapes - showing Holywells Park in Ipswich and painted between 1748-50:

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More pictures are available on a BBC gallery we produced in 2009 to mark the discovery of the Christchurch Park picture.

What is believed to be the highest price for a Thomas Gainsborough work was paid in 2011.

A Portrait of Miss Read, Later Mrs William Villebois dates from the 1770s and it sold at auction for £6.5m.

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The £4.7m Heritage Lottery Fund grant for Gainsborough's House, external is part of a contribution to the £7.5m total cost of the project.

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Writer and TV presenter Loyd Grossman (pictured getting his CBE earlier this year) is one of the museum's supporters.

He said: "I believe that Gainsborough’s House has great potential as a centre for the study of 18th century art, as an educational resource for children, as a resource for local artists – especially printmakers – and as a contributor to the tourist economy of Sudbury and Suffolk.”  

Gainsborough's House, on Gainsborough Street in Sudbury, opened to the public in 1961 and is run by a charitable trust.

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The trust said the project, called Reviving an Artist's Birthplace: A National Centre for Gainborough, aims to:

• create a three-level gallery featuring a major works display, a exhibition gallery and a landscape studio offering views across the Stour valley
• provide space for Gainsborough paintings in storage
• help raise the museum's profile to reach more people
• help regenerate Sudbury

Andrew Woodger
BBC News

The former home-turned-museum for one of Suffolk's, and Britain's, most famous artists has been awarded £4.73m from the Heritage Lottery Fund, external.

Gainsborough's House, external in Sudbury, was the birthplace and home of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) who become world-famous for his landscapes and portrait work.

The museum curators plan to turn the house, which has a large collection of Gainsboroughs, into a "national centre" costing £7.5m.  

The photograph shows Gainsborough's statue being unveiled in 2013.

Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

Earlier we told you how the pension pot at turkey producer Bernard Matthews is set to miss out on payouts under the company's rescue package, despite "corporate elites" getting their money back in full.

We've now heard from Rutland Partners, which was the company's ultimate owner.

In a statement, the company say: "We invested significant funds into the Bernard Matthews business and brand over the last three years in a continually challenging market."

Their statement goes on to say that "whilst disappointed that the business has continued to struggle during our ownership we are pleased that it has now been acquired by Ranjit Boparan with access to a large, UK poultry group and that all the jobs have been preserved".  

Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

The turkey company Bernard Matthews changed hands in September, securing the jobs of thousands of workers in Norfolk and Suffolk but the pension fund has been left millions of pounds short. 

Professor Prem Sikka, who's compiled a report for the Work and Pensions Select Committee, external, says the the pension protection fund will now move in and see if it can bail out the pension scheme. That, he says, would only absorb a maximum of 90% of the deficit, leaving members still facing a possible cut. 

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In an interview with BBC Radio Norfolk, Professor Sikka says the law needs changing. 

"When a company goes into administration or liquidation, the pension scheme members should be paid first, whereas the moment they appear to be last in the queue... we need to reverse things," he said.

He's made recommendations in his report to the committee.