Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk sport

Grant Ward, who impressed in midfield when he replaced the injured Cole Skuse at Villa Park on Saturday, says he feels he can make an impact in the position.

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The former Tottenham man (pictured right with Matt Doherty of Wolves), added: "If I get the ball, I can get up and down, drive at people, hopefully get a few goals."

Ipswich Town travel to Brighton tonight to take on the Seagulls, who are second in the Championship, although they've won just one from their last four in all competitions.

Nicola Urquhart says the search of a landfill site at Milton, as part of the investigation into the disappearance of her son, RAF Honington serviceman Corrie Mckeague, is something she's been pushing for.

She said: "Could this have been done in week four, ie. mid- to late-October? I think it could have.

"Should it have? Hindsight's a wonderful thing [but] let's not go there, we can't change it.

"We are where we are, they're doing the search now, I'm grateful for that."

The family of the missing RAF serviceman Corrie Mckeague will visit a landfill site near Cambridge ahead of a major search which will begin next week.

Police say it will take up to 10 weeks to search the quarter-of-an-acre site where waste from Bury St Edmunds was taken at about the time Mr Mckeague went missing nearly five months ago.

His father Martin says the search is welcome: "It's taken a long time, but we still fully back Suffolk Police and the decision that now they're going to search the landfill site."

Efforts are continuing to try and confirm whether a person has died in a bungalow fire in Sedge Fen near Lakenheath.

Suffolk Fire Service has told us the property is "potentially quite unstable." 

Steve Mableson, a station commander with Suffolk Fire and Rescue, added: "There's some fairly high chimney stacks there, the roof has collapsed and the content and structure of the roof is now inside the premises.

"Before we can carry out any investigations we've got to make that safe for ourselves and the scenes of crime officers that we're working with."

People living nearby have told us the house was occupied by an elderly man.  

Kevin Burch
BBC Look East

Witness statements from people who worked with Ali Qazimaj at an environmental company in Essex have been read to jury at Ipswich Crown Court.

They said Mr Qazimaj, who is accused of the murders of Sylvia and Peter Stuart from Weybread, Suffolk, was known as a bit of a gambler, who'd been given advances on his wages, and also borrowed money from colleagues.

One described him as a bit of a fantasist.

He told them he'd witnessed war in Montenegro and suffered gunshot wounds.

A comment about planning a robbery on a house in Ipswich or near to it was dismissed by Joshua Sage, a fellow worker, who said in his statement that he thought he was just chatting rubbish.

On 3 June last year, Mr Qazimaj had appeared subdued and withdrawn, the jury was told, and after an altercation he said he was quitting and was escorted from the premises.

On leaving Mr Sage said he'd asked him .. "Where are you off to then?"

The reply ... "Best you don't know".

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The court was told that two days later, a Citroen C3 car registered to Mr Qazimaj, was found parked close to the port of Dover.

The police broke in and found a sports bag and a cricket bat in the boot.

In the passenger footwell was a shopping bag containing a torch which was still switched on.

The trial continues.

Kim Riley
BBC Look East

Four chicken sheds containing more than 20,000 chickens are at the centre of the latest avian flu outbreak.

The poultry facility at Bridge Farm, near Redgrave, is managed by Banham Poultry. The company says birds at its other farms appear healthy and there's no evidence of any spread of the infection.  

A new Temporary Control Zone has been put in place following confirmation of the outbreak on Sunday.

Duck specialists Gressingham Foods has a large processing factory nearby. The zone extends around its plant at Redgrave and all bird movements in the area have been halted.

Gressingham Foods says production has been transferred to their headquarters near Woodbridge until further notice, and the infected farm had no connection to them, adding all their birds are in good health.

Kevin Burch
BBC Look East

The trial of Ali Qazimaj, who is accused of the murders of Sylvia and Peter Stuart from Weybread, has been told a bank card belonging to Mrs Stuart was used to pay £25 at Goodies Farm shop in Pulham Market, Norfolk, where she and her husband were seen on CCTV for the last time on morning of 29 May 2016.

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The next day, at night, £300 was taken from the account in two quick withdrawals from a cash machine in Grays in Essex. 

The jury at Ipswich Crown Court was told that in the next few hours further attempts were made to withdraw a total of £1,300 from other cash machines in the area but all declined. 

CCTV cameras at some of the cash machines at the time filmed someone in a hooded top and dark clothing. 

Ali Qazimaj is accused of the murders of Mrs Stuart, who's still missing, and her husband who was found stabbed near their Suffolk home last June.

But the defendant denies it and claims he's the victim of mistaken identity.

The trial continues.

Defra says a 10 km (6 mile) temporary control zone has been installed around Bridge Farm, near Redgrave, where avian flu has been confirmed.

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Within that area, there is a Protection Zone, external with a 3 km radius (1.8 miles) where anyone with premises must observe a number of controls, and a wider Surveillance Zone, external, for people further away from the farm, but yet within the 10 km zone.  

Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk sport

Leiston FC, external, who lost to Staines Town at the weekend and are now three matches without a win, will look to gain ground on their title rivals tonight when they face Harrow Borough at Victory Road.

They do however have four games in hand on Bognor Regis Town who top the Ryman Premier League. 

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Leiston boss Glenn Driver (pictured) says his side need to get back to winning ways if they want to reach his target of the play-offs: "We've got to put wins on the board, this club fell away from the play-offs badly last year... we've got to make sure we don't do the same."

He believes they may have to change their style of play.

"We might just have to stop our free-flowing football and go a little more compact and hit clubs on the break," he said.

Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk sport

Ipswich Town visit Brighton and Hove Albion tonight hoping to continue their improved form. The Blues will have to do it with just one recognised centre-back though.

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Steven Taylor is likely to miss four weeks with a hamstring injury, while Christophe Berra is recovering from concussion. They join Adam Webster and Tommy Smith who are unavailable. 

Town manager Mick McCarthy says though that he thinks his full-backs will be able to play in a back three: "I've always thought Jonas [Knudsen - pictured centre] would make a great left sided centre-back in a three, I think that's a position for full-backs really."

Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk sport

Ipswich Town, external will look to record their first back to back wins of the season in the Championship, when they travel to second-placed Brighton & Hove Albion tonight.

After the impressive win away at Aston Villa, Town's form is starting to improve, but Town manager Mick McCarthy says he never felt his job was at risk. 

"I'm not under any pressure from Marcus [Evans, the owner of ITFC], I never feel that" he said.

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A former Border Control special branch officer says there's a number of reasons on how £50m of cocaine washed up on beaches in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Chris Hobbs says the sighting of a Border Force or Royal Navy vessel could have panicked the drugs traffickers, leading to them throwing everything overboard.

"Or a pick-up that went wrong... it had been left somewhere, maybe tethered to a buoy to be picked up later, and somehow it came adrift."

Suffolk police have confirmed that a package found on Kessingland beach on Saturday is linked to the drugs haul. 

A dog walker discovered holdalls containing the drug on Hopton beach, near Great Yarmouth, last Thursday (pictured) and further discoveries were found round the Norfolk coast at Caister.

Suffolk Fire Service says it's working on the basis there was someone in the bungalow at Sedge Fen, near Lakenheath, when it was engulfed by fire yesterday evening.

Describing it as a "very hazardous operation", spokesman Ali Moseley said the bungalow was engulfed by fire when crews arrived, with the roof already "structurally unsafe and starting to collapse".

He said they quickly got information there may be someone in the premises "so we've been working on that basis".

Mr Moseley added: "We feel we may have identified the location of the occupant within the premises, but that hasn't been confirmed because of the structural safety issues so that investigation is on-going.

"Investigation teams are out there now assessing what can be done to make things safe so they can actually get hands-on and start excavating the scene." 

A third person, arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of Dean Stansby in Ipswich on Wednesday 8 February, has been released on police bail.

The 31-year-old man, of no fixed abode, was arrested on Monday and has been bailed to return to police in May, pending further enquiries.

Our cameraman Shaun has just sent these pictures from Bridge Farm, near Redgrave.

There's little sign of activity at the poultry rearing site, which is managed by the Norfolk-based Banham Poultry.

The farm doesn't produce meat, instead it's a breeding rearer farm.

News that the H5N8 bird flu strain has been identified at Bridge Farm near Redgrave has been reported by several other media outlets

• The East Anglian Daily Times, external and the Diss Mercury, external both report: 23,000 poultry to be culled in Redgrave after suspected bird flu outbreak
• The Bury Free Press, external says: Suspected bird flu at poultry farm near Redgrave 
• ITV report, external: New bird flu outbreak in Suffolk means thousands of birds to be culled 
• NFU Online, external: AI restrictions confirmed around Redgrave, Suffolk

Visitors to the castle which inspired Ed Sheeran are taking advantage of a 6m-long slide which has been set up on scaffolding during a £1.2m conservation project.

A 10km (6m) Temporary Control Zone, external has been placed around the site of a poultry premises in Redgrave, close to the Norfolk/Suffolk border, following an outbreak of avian flu.

More than 20,000 affected birds at the poultry rearing facility are to be culled in the next few days.

Anthony Greenleaves, lead vet at the Animal and Plant Health Agency, says they were alerted to the possible outbreak of the H5N8 virus on Friday evening and the disease was confirmed on Sunday following investigation.

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Since December, preventative measures have been in place to reduce the risk of bird flu spreading. 

Commercial and domestic poultry keepers are advised to keep the birds in side a suitable building where possible and put netting over openings to stop contact with wild birds.  

BBC Travel

Greater Anglia is reporting train services on the Ipswich to London line through Essex have returned to normal following delays and cancellations earlier today.

A freight train that broke down between Ipswich and Colchester that blocked lines in the Manningtree area has now been moved.