Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

An auction of clothes worn by international singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has raised nearly £8,000 for East Anglia's Children's Hospices, external (EACH). 

Ed has been an ambassador for EACH since 2014, and has paid a visit to The Treehouse hospice in Ipswich, close to his family home in Framlingham. 

The clothes included an orange hoodie with the words "Justice for Gingers" on it, which was recently dropped off at EACH's Ipswich fundraising office by his mum Imogen.

Other lots on offer included this Burberry suit jacket Ed wore at the 2013 Grammy Awards when he performed alongside Sir Elton John. It still has a $20 bill and taxi company card in one pocket.

Image source, EACH

The musician is performing live in the Natural History Museum in London on Wednesday, 30 November to raise funds for the EACH Nook Appeal - a £10m campaign to build a new hospice on the outskirts of Norwich. 

The Environment Agency has got three flood alerts, external in place:

• Thorpeness Hundred River and River Ore, external
• Rivers Deben and Lark, external
• Suffolk Coastal Rivers, external

We'll keep you updated if there's any updates on these during the afternoon.

Arts journalist and theatre critic Mark Shenton, external has apologised for referring to the victims of Ipswich murderer Steve Wright as a "bunch of prostitutes" while talking about the musical called London Road on BBC Radio Four's PM programme.

@WadesWords13 is the Twitter name of Gayle Wade, from Bury St Edmunds, who describes herself as a "Retired press officer, freelance PR, amateur actress, proud granny and much more!".

Vikki Irwin
BBC Radio Suffolk political reporter

Suffolk's councils will still meet as planned, even though it's expected the government will pull the plug on the deal for a devolved Suffolk and Norfolk body.

The deal would have seen a combined authority and a directly-elected mayor for the two counties. They would have had control over nearly a £1bn pounds of central government money over the next 30 years to spend on transport, infrastructure and housing. 

Suffolk's county and district councils were due to vote and pass the deal over the next three days. 

The meetings will go ahead, with councils expected to table an amendment that will allow council leaders to continue conversations with the government about a devolution deal for Suffolk and any other willing partners in councils in Norfolk or even Essex which still favour some form of devolution.

Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury and Suffolk Coastal meet tonight; Babergh and Forest Heath tomorrow; with Suffolk County Council, Waveney and Ipswich Borough voting on Wednesday. 

Wally Webb
BBC Radio Norfolk

If you had gone down to the woods at the weekend, you'd have been in for a big surprise.

Teams of specially-bred dogs pulling carts, trikes and even mountain bikes were competing in a dog racing competition in Thetford Forest.

They'd come from as far away as northern Finland to take part in the European Dry Land Championships, external of the International Federation of Dog Sled Sports.

Running a course of up to 7km (4.3miles), the fastest team competed their trail in 11 minutes with an average speed of 22mph (35km/h).

BBC Travel

The B1078 is closed in Needham Market between Flordon Road and Pump Street, because of flooding.

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Mildenhall Fen Tigers, external rider Danny Halsey says he can't wait to get started after it was confirmed he's returning to West Row for a seventh consecutive season.

Image source, Jeff Higgott

The 28-year-old's also aware he wasn't on everyone's wish list for 2017.

"I had noticed I hadn't been put forward by some of the supporters in their teams for next season, so hopefully l can prove a couple of the doubters wrong this year and really step it up," he said. 

"I am looking forward to working with the team again for what I'm hoping will be a long-overdue successful season. 

"The team-building so far suggests that's a real possibility and I can’t wait to get started."

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Mildenhall Fen Tigers, external have made their third signing for 2017, with Danny Halsey coming back to the club for a seventh consecutive season.

Image source, Jeff Higgott

Halsey, who was an important member of the all-conquering 2012 Grand Slam side, had a relatively slow start to the 2016 campaign before finding his form. 

Mildenhall chairman Kevin Jolly said: "On his day Danny is as good as it gets at this level.

"He just needs to find his consistency early on and maintain it throughout to have another big season for us. 

"He is very popular both on and off the track."

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Kundai Benyu and Andre Dozzell (pictured in the foreground) are due to play for Ipswich Town's, external under-23s against Crystal Palace this afternoon.

The pair were part of the Blues' first team squad for Saturday's 2-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest, with Dozzell making the bench.

Gerard Nash's side will be hoping to bounce back from last week's 4-2 defeat to league leaders Charlton Athletic.

It's a 13:00 kick-off at Playford Road, with free entry for fans.

It's the 23rd anniversary of the murder of Karen Hales, and the Ipswich Star reports, external that her family have spoken of their disappointment that police have been unable to find her killer.

On the 20th anniversary of the murder, Karen's daughter Emily, pictured with her mother, said she hoped that one day the killer will be caught.

The body of the 21-year-old shop assistant was found by her parents at her home in Lavenham Road, just off London Road in Ipswich on 21 November 1993.

She had been stabbed and then set on fire. Sitting nearby was Emily.

Police believe she would have seen what happened, and at the time it prompted one of the biggest murder investigations ever seen in Suffolk.

But despite numerous inquiries and many leads, no-one has ever been brought to justice. A £50,000 reward co-ordinated by the then Evening Star newspaper, external in 2005 failed to provide the breakthrough.  

Police have responded to our request for information following a statement from Corrie Mckeague's uncle on the search for his missing nephew, in which he says that only 16 of 39 people detected on CCTV, in the area where Corrie was last seen, have been positively identified.

Image source, Suffolk Police

A spokeswoman has said: "The 23 people are seen on CCTV walking in either Brentgovel Street or Short Brackland between 3am and 8am on Saturday, 24 September. 

"Work continues to identify these individuals and we would continue to ask anyone who was there to come forward. 

"Police have set up a pod previously to show images to help identify individuals and this is something we're looking at doing again." 

Anyone with information that may help is asked to call the incident room on 01473 782019.     

A building in Haverhill described as a "historic landmark" has been badly gutted by fire.

An East of England Ambulance Service paramedic from Southend tells the BBC he's been assaulted at work 50 times.

It follows the news that staff across the region were assaulted 232 times in 2015-16, compared to 195 the previous year.

The uncle of missing RAF Honington gunner Corrie Mckeague has issued an update, external on the search for his nephew, in which he says that an area of Bury St Edmunds known as the "Horseshoe" has been forensically searched and no trace of Corrie has been found.

Image source, Suffolk Police

Tony Wringe says 39 people have been detected on CCTV - in the loading bay area behind the shops at the intersection of Short Brackland and Brentgovel Street - at the general time Corrie disappeared, but that only 16 have been positively identified.

Nine of the remaining 23, who are unidentified, are described as "a person in dark clothing".

Mr Wringe also says police will be offering the public a chance to view the CCTV footage themselves, when they bring their mobile "pod" to the town's Christmas Fayre, external, which begins on Thursday.

We've put a call in to Suffolk Police, and will bring you their response as soon as we get it.

East Anglian Daily Times

This is the front page of the west edition of the East Anglian Daily Times, external:

Image source, EADT

Passengers using the Greater Anglia line through Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex and east London claimed more than £2.3m in compensation in the past year.

The train operator has been compensated in turn though, with Network Rail paying it £4.2m for unplanned disruption.

Despite the number of delays, the campaign group Transport Focus, external says only one in three make a claim, with some people not bothering because they can't face it or they feel the amount is too small.

Fans writing on the Ipswich Town supporters' website, external, TWTD, have been reminiscing about former player Dalian Atkinson, whose funeral took place on Saturday.

Image source, Ipswich Town Football Club

Maccyd9 writes, external: "In the second picture Dalian is holding up a lad. That lad is me! And the guy to Dalian's left is my other hero, my late Dad. A bit emotional seeing that."

You can read a full BBC feature about Atkinson's time at Ipswich.

East Anglian Daily Times

Here's the front page of the east edition of the East Anglian Daily Times, external:

Image source, EADT

Vikki Irwin
BBC Radio Suffolk political reporter

Councils across Suffolk and Norfolk are expecting a letter from the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, external, Sajid Javid, confirming the devolution deal is over.

It was widely reported on Friday that plans had been scrapped, following the latest rejection of the proposals by King's Lynn & West Norfolk District Council.

It's been very much an "on, off, on and off again" deal, but to sum it up, the original plan was for Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire to have a joint agreement, then Cambridgeshire decided they wanted to go it alone, and the other two neighbouring counties attempted a deal of their own.

The sticking point was the directly-elected mayor, which some of Norfolk's politicians didn't think we needed.

In June, four out of seven of Norfolk's district councils voted against the idea, which prompted a response from the government that the deal would be off if one more council backed out.

This is what happened last week, when West Norfolk & King's Lynn Borough Council voted against the proposals.

Suffolk County Council is planning to continue with its meetings, and hopes something can be salvaged from 18 months of negotiations.

Councils in Suffolk are hoping to salvage something from the Norfolk and Suffolk devolution deal which the government is likely to say is dead later on this morning.

Five of the seven councils in Norfolk rejected the plans, which would have included a new directly-elected mayor serving both counties.

Now MPs and councillors in Suffolk want to explore a one-county deal.  

The Conservative leader of Suffolk County Council, external, Colin Noble, said: "There is a feeling that we would like to go ahead.

"We would like to put to the secretary of state a Suffolk-only deal, but it is not just Suffolk only - it is Suffolk-based.

"[For] other areas that can see the advantage of devolution, then we want to talk to those areas about how we would take a Suffolk-based devolution deal forward."

It is believed this idea could be of interest to councils in Norfolk which had voted to back the devolution proposals.