Updates for Friday, 31 March, 2017
Appeal after rape arrest
Final day for well-known head teacher
Travellers' double murder trial moved to Old Bailey
Cannabis seized in drugs raid
Broads National Park sign unveiled in Beccles
'Suffolk Day' is launched
Two wins out of two for Witches
Mildenhall Town’s Recreation Way ground has ticked all of the necessary boxes, external for promotion to the Ryman League, with the club awaiting official confirmation from the Football Association that they are permitted to ply their trade at Step Four.
An exhibition exploring the history of urban graffiti has just opened at the Lettering Arts Centre, external at Snape Maltings.
Image source, Zaki DeeIt is curated by Errol Donald - a former graffiti artist whose work below was displayed in the UK's first exhibition dedicated to graffiti, in Bristol, more than 30 years ago.
If you want to take a look, the centre is open Fridays to Mondays, 11:00 to 17:00, and the exhibition lasts until 28 May.
Kate Arkell
BBC Radio Suffolk
A man in his 20s has been taken to hospital after being stabbed in a cemetery in Sudbury.
Police were called to the site off Newton Road in the town, at 10:45 this morning.
His injuries, believed to be a single stab wound, aren't thought to be life-threatening.
Pictured at the Harwich ferry terminal before beginning a 10-month trek to Kathmandu, Henry Dunham said now they've arrived at their destination, he's "going to go out and get some food, with Sam's parents and family if we can find them and my brother Ben and my sister Jemima, we're all going to go out for some dinner".
Image source, Kathmandu-itHe added: "I'm going to have a couple of beers and then plan our 10-day excursion around Nepal.
"We've been invited by the [UK] ambassador in Nepal to come out and have afternoon tea with them, so that will be exciting... and apart from that, we're going to go and look at some mountains."
The father of Henry Dunham, who's just completed a trek from Harwich to Kathmandu to raise money for the Suffolk-based charity Annie's Challenge, external , has told his son: "To be honest, I didn't really believe you were going to complete this."
Image source, Kathmandu-itNick continued: "You have been absolutely astounding and we are so proud and we're just looking forward to seeing you as soon as possible."
Asked whether she was going to have to do all his washing, Henry's mum Madelaine said: "I think it'll all go in the bin actually - [he's worn] the same T-shirt for 10 months."
The headteacher of Framlingham College, where Henry Dunham and Sam Crimp both went to school, has praised the intrepid pair at the end of their 10-month trek to Kathmandu.
Image source, Kathmandu-itSpeaking to Henry via Skype, Paul Taylor said: "It's been great to follow your blogs along the way from you and Sam, I take my hat off to you I really do.
"How you must be feeling now at the end of this epic... It must be such a mix of emotions we're so, so proud - I'm in awe of what you've achieved. Well done."
At the height of the herring industry, 400 million fish could be landed in a single season at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.
But after the end of World War One, the industry fell into decline and now just a handful of fishing boats remain.
We've taken a "trawl" back through the photo archives.
In 1928, these Scottish fisherwomen were at work on the largest haul of herrings for the season at Great Yarmouth, with an estimated value of £40,000.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe fisher-girls would use long poles to push the barrels of herring along the quayside.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe fish would be gutted on the quayside... but it wasn't all work and no play.
While waiting for the drifters to bring the next catch ashore, there was time for a quick game of draughts.
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Image source, Getty ImagesThis was the scene in October 1934 - piles of fishing baskets, known as swills, wait in readiness for the herring season. There are believed to be 19,000 in this one pile.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe baskets would pile up on the quayside, ready for the driftters to bring in the day's catch.
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Image source, Getty ImagesBefore the season got under way, it was important to make sure the nets were ready.
Image source, Getty ImagesIn December 1935, fisher girls in Great Yarmouth used this old tram car as a shelter.
Image source, Getty ImagesThese youngsters found the barrels just too hard to resist, scaling the heights of the huge stack near Great Yarmouth's Nelson Monument.
Image source, Getty ImagesIpswich are beaten 4-1 at Huddersfield...
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I just love this photograph taken in Mendham by BBC Weather Watcher "WeatherHound".
It looks as if someone's been along with a pair of scissors and a spirit level to make the sure the bottom of the foliage is completely straight:
We brought you a video last week on the construction of the new pier front at Felixstowe.
One of our colleagues is enjoying the sunshine down there today on her day off - lucky thing - and she's sent us this latest photo:
Have you got any photographs you'd like to share with us? You can send them via the "Get involved" link at the top of this page.
A man arrested in connection with a rape in Newmarket at the weekend has been bailed.
Image source, GooglePolice were contacted in the early hours of Sunday, after a girl in her late teens told police she had been walking in the area of Fred Archer Way (pictured, known locally as Yellow Brick Road), when she was approached by a man who then raped her.
The man has been released on police bail and is due to return to Bury St Edmunds Police Investigation Centre on Tuesday, 27 June.
It is believed that the 18-year-old man and the victim are known to each other and inquiries are ongoing.
Henry Dunham and Sam Crimp - pictured (l-r) a couple of days ago - have completed their mammoth trek, external from the UK to Kathmandu.
Image source, Kathmandu-itSpeaking to BBC Suffolk's afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin , Henry said: "I can't even begin to explain the level of relief .
"It's such a weird feeling having done this for 10 months.
"We spent an hour walking through the Kathmandu outskirts, through the outer city and into the centre.
"We had knots in our stomachs with nervousness because it's the end of so much.
"We're very very happy to have finished."
It's said that at the height of the herring industry in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, 60 million of the "silver darlings" were landed in a single day.
Young women would travel from Scotland, following the fishing boats all the way down the east coast, to Norfolk and Suffolk.
Image source, Getty ImagesThere was little work for the women in the Scottish islands, so it was a case of doing whatever work they could... for the rest of the year they'd be unemployed.
Working in groups of three, the girls could gut 60 herring a minute - that's one every second. Two would gut and the third would pack the fish into barrels.
Image source, Getty ImagesThey wrapped their fingers in bits of cotton cloth so they could still grab the knife. Sometimes the action would wear a hole in the cloth and the salt would quite painfully sting the fingers, which could get quite raw.
Image source, Getty ImagesIt was hard work - they had to work right through from the time the drifters arrived in the docks, until the catch was finished.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe heyday of the industry was between 1870 and the beginning of World War One in 1914. At one time, there were 350 fishing boats in Lowestoft, and it was possible to walk from one side of the dock to the other, from boat to boat.
After the war the industry declined, catches were smaller and people's tastes changed.
With the advent of the fish finger, the silver darlings lost their popularity.
Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport
Bury Town, external manager Ben Chenery is demanding his team becomes more clinical in front of goal ahead of tonight's Ryman North Division, external game at Aveley.
Image source, Bury Free PressBury missed a host of chances in Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Romford.
"We got in 14 or 15 times and still couldn't score," said Chenery. "I didn't know what to say to them afterwards, I was so frustrated.
"We were better than them all over the pitch, in every department, but you've got to put the ball in the back of the net.
"You would not have been surprised if we'd won that six, seven or eight-nil."
Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport
Ipswich Town, external teenagers Andre Dozzell (pictured) and Tristan Nydam could both play for England's Under-18s against Qatar this afternoon (kick-off 16:00).
Image source, Getty ImagesIt's the squad's final match of their three-game trip to Doha.
Dozzell played the full 90 minutes of last Wednesday's 2-0 victory over Saudi Arabia before Nydam made his debut in Saturday's 2-1 success over today's opponents.
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Sudbury travelled to east London on Saturday to play mid-table Eton Manor and gave one of their best performances of the season.
County Upper’s Under-14 basketball team have become the first Suffolk side to be crowned east of England champions, external for more than 12 years.
Image source, Bury Free PressGraffiti growth - from simple tags in the US 50 years ago - to vast colourful creations.
Read MorePolice say it is "too early" to say whether a knife recovered from the river in Ipswich, is linked to the fatal stabbing of Dean Stansby in early February.
As reported in the Ipswich Star, external , the knife was recovered by firefighters from the river near Ipswich train station, close to Ancaster Road where the fatal stabbing took place.
Police say forensic examinations are ongoing to determine the significance of the recovered weapon to the murder investigation.
The photograph shows floral tributes to Mr Stansby, who was 41 and came from Trimley St Mary, outside the Lucky 13 Tattoo Studio on Crown Street in Ipswich where he worked.
Two home games for the Blues coming up, with Birmingham then Wigan coming to Portman Road :
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