Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

After dropping points in their last matches Suffolk's two leading lights in the Ryman Premier Division, external will be hoping to fare better this weekend.

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Second-placed Needham Market, external entertain Wingate & Finchley while Leiston, external, who are four points behind the Marketmen in fourth spot, host Staines Town.

Elsewhere, AFC Sudbury, external welcome Kingstonian to the Wardale Williams Stadium, Lowestoft Town, external head to Hendon while Bury Town, external face Phoenix Sports in the North Division.

Patrick Byrne
BBC News

The National Crime Agency is carrying out an investigation to trace the owners of holdall bags washed up on two Norfolk beaches containing £50m-worth of cocaine.

The drugs, weighing about 360 kilos (800lb) were found by a member of the public on Thursday at Hopton and earlier today by searchers at Caister.

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Supt Dave Buckley said: "We are assisting the National Crime Agency with further searches.

"We believe we have recovered all the packages but should any member of the public find one they are urged to contact Norfolk Police immediately. 

"We will have extra officers in the area to monitor the situation."    

Patrick Byrne
BBC News

About 360 kilos of cocaine with a potential value of £50m has washed up on two Norfolk beaches. 

A member of the public told police on Thursday afternoon about several holdalls at Hopton-on-Sea between Gorleston and Lowestoft. 

Police and Border Force officers investigated and the items were passed to the National Crime Agency (NCA).   

A further small number of packages were discovered separately near Caister earlier today. 

Matthew Rivers, from the NCA, said: "We are now working to try and establish how the bags ended up where they did, however it is extremely unlikely that this was their intended destination. 

"This is obviously a substantial seizure of class A drugs, and its loss will represent a major blow to the organised criminals involved." 

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Ipswich Town boss Mick McCarthy goes head-to-head on Saturday with one of his closest friends in football tomorrow - Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce.

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The pair, who have six promotions to the Premier League between them, have played and managed against each other on numerous occasions.

McCarthy believes Villa made the perfect choice when they appointed Bruce in October.

"They went looking everywhere and trying to get sexy options and I guess me and Brucey aren't too sexy, but we know what we're doing and we've done good jobs wherever we've been," he said. 

"Steve will turn it around, without any doubt."

It's more than four months since police revealed that RAF Honington serviceman Corrie Mckeague had not been seen since the early hours of Saturday, 24 September, during a night out in Bury St Edmunds.

• On 4 October, a bin lorry, seized by detectives searching for Mr Mckeague, was released, after it was found not to contain his lost phone

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• A month later, Corrie Mckeague's uncle, Tony Wringe, criticised police for not searching a landfill site at Barton Mills near Mildenhall, where Mr Mckeague's phone signal was traced
• Later that month, CCTV footage of people yet to be identified from the night Corrie Mckeague disappeared, was shown at a police pod at the annual Christmas Fair in Bury St Edmunds
• At the end of December, it was revealed that more than £51,000 had been raised to fund a private investigator, named as McKenzie Intelligence Services
• On 9 January, Mr Mckeague's girlfriend, April Oliver (pictured below), said she is expecting their baby

• On 10 February, police reveal that an extensive search is to be carried out of the landfill site at Milton near Cambridge (pictured below)

Ipswich Star

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A 16-year-old boy from Ipswich has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

It's the second arrest in connection with the death of a man in his 40s, who was stabbed in the vicinity of Ancaster Road near the town's main railway station on Wednesday evening.

On the evening of the attack, a 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder.

Police have been granted an additional 28 hours to question him, which will expire at 12:05 on Saturday.

Ancaster Road remains closed to through traffic under the railway bridge between the junctions with Ranelagh Road and Gippeswyk Avenue. 

This will remain until further notice as police continue forensic work.

A full search of the landfill site at Milton, for missing RAF serviceman Corrie Mckeague, is likely to commence around Wednesday, 22 February once initial work, already under way, has been completed.  

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The preparation will include building access ways to the area to be searched, carrying out scoping work, and putting appropriate facilities on the site to allow this search to be carried out in a thorough and comprehensive way. 

Det Supt Katie Elliott said: "There are some measures that we need to put in place before the full search work starts as, in addition to the pressing need to find Corrie, we also have to consider local residents, site workers and the officers who will be carrying out the job of going through the waste. 

"We know that physically searching the site has the potential to cause an increase in odour and we hope residents will understand that we and the site owners have taken this into consideration when making a decision to go ahead with the search.

"We need to find him and discover what happened to him. 

"While the search may not provide the answers as to what happened it is something we need to do as our investigation continues."  

Mr Mckeague was stationed at RAF Honington, north of Bury St Edmunds.

Police say the search of the landfill site at Milton, on the other side of the A14 north of Cambridge, will be a "considerable task".

The area identified is more than 920 sq m (1,100 sq yds) of waste, down to a maximum depth of eight metres (26ft) and it is estimated that it is likely to take a team of specialist search-trained officers six to ten weeks to complete the work.  

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The safety and welfare of the officers who will undertake the search, and the noise and odour implications for local residents, have all been factors that police have to take into consideration.

The area on the landfill site, where waste collected from Bury St Edmunds on the morning of 24 September was deposited, has not had further items put onto it since police alerted the site, early in the investigation, to the possibility that this may need to be searched.   

Patrick Byrne
BBC News

The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, external cancelled 300 operations for non-clinical reasons during the three months to the end of 2016, newly-released statistics from NHS England, external reveal. 

The hosptial, the second largest the eastern region, had the highest number of cancellations.

In addition the hospital had 70 breaches - these record patients who did not have their procedure carried out within 28 days of the original cancellation. 

Second on the list was Addenbrooke's Hospital, external in Cambridge with 271 cancellations and 19 breaches. 

The James Paget Hospital, external at Gorleston cancelled 162 operation and had 44 breaches during this period and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, external at King's Lynn cancelled 103 and recorded two breaches. 

The new figures show more evidence of the pressure on the region's hospitals in the run up to Christmas.

A total of 2,734 patients in the eastern region were denied their operations and more than 200 breaches were recorded. 

But NHS England said figures reveal, external overall during the period covered 98.9% of operations went ahead and only 7.3% of cancellations became breaches.

The search of a landfill site at Milton near Cambridge, as part of the investigation into the disappearance of RAF Honington serviceman Corrie Mckeague, has been one of a number of lines of inquiry, say police.

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They say CCTV shows that a waste lorry made a collection in the "horseshoe" area of Bury St Edmunds a short time after the last confirmed sighting of Mr Mckeague, and that the lorry was seized in the early stages of the inquiry for forensic examination.

This did not reveal any traces of him, however the waste collection has been one line of inquiry police have persisted with and kept "under constant review". 

Mr Mckeague has been missing since he was last seen in the town in the early hours of Saturday, 24 September.

The rodent was found in an officer's house... and released into the wild.

Police say they will be carrying out a search at a landfill site in Milton in Cambridgeshire, as part of continuing inquiries to try to find out what has happened to missing RAF Honington serviceman Corrie Mckeague.

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England player Alex Scott "would've loved the opportunity to have a competition like this when I was younger".

What's she talking about? The FA People's Cup - the country's biggest free five-a-side competition which gives you the chance to make your way to Wembley.

"When I was younger, playing in a football cage, the dream was always to play at Wembley," adds Scott.

"The FA People's Cup gives anyone the opportunity to sign up to a local team in your area. You don't have to rely on your mates.

"It's a chance to meet different people, socialise in different environments. It's more than just signing up, you can get so many benefits from it."

So what are you waiting for? Sign up for the FA People's Cup, external - but hurry as the deadline for entries is the 19 February!

East Anglian Daily Times

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Luke Deal
BBC Radio Suffolk

Police are investigating a burglary at a garage shop in Spring Road, Ipswich early this morning, in which cigarettes were stolen after paving slabs were thrown against the door to shatter the glass.

On the floor inside, behind the tills, I could see quite a few packets of cigarettes on the ground, and a roller door has been wrenched open.

There are quite a few shelves hanging, with more cigarette packets lying on them.

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

New Ipswich Town, external striker Dominic Samuel is likely to make his debut at some point during tomorrow's Championship game at Aston Villa.

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The 22-year-old, who is on loan from Reading, marked his first game in Blues colours with a hat-trick for the Under-23s against Watford on Monday.

"Dominic's a finisher, there's no doubt about that," said manager Mick McCarthy. "I've seen his goals from being on loan at Coventry and Gillingham and training here.

"He hits it fairly hard, he hits the target and doesn't waste many opportunities to make the keeper work and he's got pace."

Ipswich Town travel to Aston Villa in the Championship for a 15:00 kick-off on Saturday.

East Anglian Daily Times

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