Jodie Halford
BBC News

Two-year-old Esmae has been brought in by her mum and dad, Melissa Clarke and Thomas Plant. 

"Esmae's had a temperature since last night, and she hasn't been drinking either," Ms Clarke told me. "At one point it hit 40 so we thought we'd better bring her in."

"You expect a wait when you come to A&E, don't you? Esmae has tonsillitis last year and the same thing happened," Ms Clarke added.

Jodie Halford
BBC News

Fifteen-year-old James Martin, from Woodbridge, came into the paediatric emergency department at 20:00 after he was hurt during a basketball game.

"Someone shouldered me and my tooth went through my lip," he said.

"I've done the same thing before - once at go-karting, and once at hockey. But this is the first time I'm come to A&E for it."

His mum Philippa, 48, said their experience of the hospital had been "excellent" - though she had brought a flask of coffee in anticipation of a fairly long wait ahead.

Jodie Halford
BBC News

Katie Ratliff, 12, and her dad Stephen, 42, have been in the paediatric waiting room since 18:15.

Yesterday at school, Katie - who's in year seven - slipped on some mats in a PE lesson and crushed her foot on the floor.

"I've been struggling to walk on my foot - it really hurts. A nurse has checked me over but we're waiting to see someone else now," Katie said.

Her dad Stephen said other people had been waiting much longer than them. "There's so many people whizzing backwards and forwards around us that it makes you feel dizzy. It's so busy here tonight."

Jodie Halford
BBC News

Rhyan Zambrano has worked at Ipswich Hospital as a nurse for 13 years, the last five of which have been spent in the paediatric A&E unit.

"There's a different way of looking after child patients," he said. "You're not just looking after them; often you're looking after their parents, too, who can get very distressed."

He told me it's been a really busy night in the department so far, with two resuscitation cases brought in by ambulance which were "red phone" calls (meaning they needed urgent attention once they arrived in hospital).

He said he believed the four-hour waiting target was "achieveable". "There are certain cases where it's unavoidable that it takes a bit longer because a patient has a certain condition," he said. "Or sometimes they're about to be sent home, but there might be a last minute change in their observations so we keep them in. We're often more cautious here than with the adults."

Jodie Halford
BBC News

Paul Allison's 69-year-old dad Geoffrey is in one of the bays in the emergency department. He was brought in with chest pains - but had only been discharged from hospital yesterday after having been brought in with a possible cardiac arrest.

Geoffrey went to his GP a couple of days ago and was immediately sent to A&E, where he evenutally had tests and a brain scan as it was thought he may have had a mini-stroke.

"He was initially supposed to have a scan when he was here yesterday, but an emergency came in and they couldn't fit him in, so he was given an outpatient appointment," Mr Allison said of his father.

"This afternoon he started having the pains again. It's not good enough. If he'd had a scan and further treatment before, perhaps he wouldn't be here now. We would have had peace of mind, but right now we're in limbo."

Jodie Halford
BBC News

I've been to the front desk of the "majors" section of A&E here at Ipswich Hospital, where staff are about 10 minutes away from handing over to the night shift.

I've been told from 18:15 to 19:15, 13 patients were admitted to the emergency department, and 22 were admitted in the hour before that.

In total, there are currently 51 patients in A&E as a whole, with an hour and a half's wait to be seen.

Jodie Halford
BBC News

You might remember we were speaking earlier to John Ward, who arrived in hospital at 10:00 this morning.

He'd suffered a number of falls and was being checked over by staff in a bay in Ipswich Hospital's A&E unit.

Since then, he's been taken to the surgical assessment unit where he'll stay overnight while staff do further examinations to find out how he is.

"They've told me I might go home tomorrow or the day after. They're trying to make sure I'll be alright when I get home."

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

During the day, we have been asking patients and staff to summarise their experience of accident and emergency in a single word.

Here are the latest 'words'.

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

At the start of the day we met a lovely couple in their 90s called Olive and Ken Davies from Ipswich. 

Olive arrived at A&E at about 06:30 suffering with chest pains. She has previously had a double hart bypass, so chest pains for her are potentially an emergency situation.

After being seen at A&E she was transferred to the medical assessment unit for a series of tests. We're pleased to say she has been thoroughly checked over and her pacemaker is working properly. 

Staff have decided to alter her medication in the hope that will help. Olive, 90, says she is now feeling much better.

"I am so grateful for all they have done," said Olive. "The staff here are like friends."

Olive, once a competitive ballroom dancer, and husband Ken, 92, a former Army physical training instructor and veteran of the Normandy landings, are poised to leave for home very shortly.

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

We've asked Ipswich Hospital's chief executive Nick Hulme to share his A&E in a word.

His response was 'heartbeat'. Here's why.

A gang of men has admitted plotting to bring drugs into Cumbria.

Police seized drugs worth tens of thousands of pounds when two couriers were arrested on the M6 heading for Carlisle. 

Two Carlisle men, Jonathan O'Neil, 28, from Creighton Avenue and Darren Snowden, 45, of Brookside, along with three other men all admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine.

Stone also admitted conspiring to supply heroin and cannabis.

Also appearing at Carlisle Crown Court were Andrew Berry, 25, of Bower street in Carlisle and Levi Howard, 30, of High Cliff, Barrow, who admitted to conspiring to supply cannabis.

They'll all be sentenced tomorrow. 

Diss Express

A dog walker has made an impassioned warning to others after their lurcher ate elastic bands, external in Diss Park – resulting in veterinary bills running into hundreds of pounds.  

The chart-dominating singer joins Radiohead and Foo Fighters on the bill at this year's festival.

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

We asked the A&E department's Red Cross volunteers to share what single word they would use to describe accident and emergency.

Wendy's word was "crucial" and Robin's was "unexpected".

The Great Places scheme will benefit 16 areas, with a particular focus on those hit hard by industrial decline.

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

You'll have to forgive the pun - it has come from the patient himself.

John Ward arrived at A&E shortly before 10:00 because he was feeling very unwell following a series of falls.

He is still waiting to find out exactly what might be wrong and what his treatment might be. He is being transferred to the hospital's Brantham Ward, which includes an emergency assessment unit. Once there he will be given blood.

He has agreed to let us visit him up on the ward a little later.

Image source, Getty Images

Ed Sheeran has been opening up about his love life and how he ended up topless in its latest video.

In an interview with US Weekly, external he was quizzed about his girlfriend Cherry - about how he got together with his old school friend and how he wrote a song about her on Divide.

He says one day when the showbiz all ends he knows "the one person that’s going to remain constant is Cherry.”

Altogether now...awwwwwe

He also revealed how he ended up without his top on so we all got to see the shape of him in the Shape of You video.

Image source, Atlantic records

See, it's all about the lighting.

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

Sitting atop the counter at the central nurses' station in A&E is a bright red telephone.

The staff here know the red phone as the "pre alert phone". 

Matron Tash Tuck said it rang when a serious medical emergency was about to arrive. The alert will come from, say, an ambulance crew bringing in a seriously injured patient.

"It can ring several times a day," says Tash. "But, like A&E in general, it is unpredictable."

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Leiston, external manager Glenn Driver was fuming with the performance of the referee in last night's Suffolk Premier Cup, external  semi-final defeat to Needham Market, external .

Image source, Leiston FC

Ollie Morris-Sanders awarded Needham two penalties and sent off Leiston's Jack Ainsley.

"An absolute disgrace of a performance from a referee," Driver said. 

"If I get fined for it, I'll take any fine.

"That performance tonight was an absolute disgrace and that's a bitter pill to swallow, because I thought my boys were excellent.

"His performance tonight needs to be rectified by the Suffolk FA because that should not be allowed on a football pitch."

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Needham Market, external are through to the final of the Suffolk Premier Cup after a 4-2 penalty shoot-out victory over Ryman League rivals Leiston, external .

Image source, Needham Market FC

The match itself finished 4-4, before Market Men keeper Danny Gay (pictured) saved two spot-kicks in the shoot-out.

Needham will now play Lowestoft Town, external in the final.