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Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who grew up in Framlingham, has been included in the "artists" section of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People, external list for 2017.

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The prestigious round-up of the world's most powerful names includes categories for artists, pioneers, leaders, titans and icons, putting Shape Of You singer Sheeran in the company of Pope Francis, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Russian president Vladimir Putin also made the leaders list, while Chance The Rapper, Ivanka Trump and mixed martial artist Conor McGregor were listed as pioneers.

Taylor Swift calls Ed Sheeran a "tank" in a tribute for Time's 100 Most Influential People list.

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Suffolk's UK Open darts champion Peter Wright returned to winning ways on the 12th night of the Premier League, external.

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The 46-year-old from Mendham beat James Wade 7-3 to remain two points behind leader Michael van Gerwen, who saw off fellow Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld 7-2. 

There were also victories for Phil Taylor and Dave Chisnall, who won twice.

More than 300 people attended a meeting in Southwold last night, to hear the latest plans about the future use of the old cottage hospital.

They voted almost unanimously to support a bid by a community group to build low-cost homes and set up a business centre and café.

The Save Our Southwold group has made a formal offer for the site, which the owners, the NHS, are now considering.

Spokesman Laurence Vulliamy said: "It would be a tragedy if this building was turned into second homes, because this town really needs new business, it needs new people to join the community and what we would like to do is turn it into a business hub and a community hub."

Kelly McCormack
BBC Radio Suffolk

The building on the Ipswich Waterfront, known locally as the Winerack, is set to be finally completed.It will include 149 apartments and an area of commercial space, thanks to an investment of millions of pounds of public money.

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The Homes and Communities Agency, external is set to invest £15m, with a further £5m from the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, external. 

The building is owned by John Howard, who said: "We hope work will start in September.

"At the moment we've gone back to our preferred contractor, who's just going to update the tender, but we're fairly confident we can start in September."

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

Today's likely to be the warmest day of the week, although it will be rather cloudy. 

We’re into warmer air now, so it should feel pleasantly warm in any sunshine that appears. 

The cloud will gradually thin and break during the morning, and that will really help to lift the temperatures, giving us highs of about 15C (59F).

Watch my full regional forecast here:

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Good morning from the Suffolk Live team and thanks for joining us.

We'll start the day with some exciting news about the building on the Ipswich Waterfront known locally as the Winerack, (pictured in the centre below), which has been unfinished since the financial crash of 2008.

It's finally going to be completed, thanks to millions of pounds of public money.

We'll bring you more on that, as well as the outcome of last night's meeting about the future of the former hospital in Southwold.

But before any of that, we'll take our daily look at the weather prospects - Elizabeth Rizzini will bring us the details next.

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That's a wrap for the Suffolk news team and our live coverage today, but any major stories for the county overnight will still feature here.

If you're just joining us, you can scroll down to find out what's been happening across the county, but to whet your appetite, here are a few of the stories we've covered:

• A chemical leak at the Birds Eye factory in Lowestoft
• Bad news for real ale fans in Ipswich
• A marathon runner who enjoys a challenge

Have a great evening - we'll leave you with this very cheerful photograph taken by one of our BBC Weather Watchers, and look forward to your company again from 08:00 tomorrow.

The annual School Farm and Country Fair is held at Trinity Park on the outskirts of Ipswich, visited by thousands of school children.

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Ipswich Town appear to be full of confidence ahead of Saturday's trip to bottom of the table Rotherham United, where victory would be the Blues' third in a row.

Before Easter Monday, Mick McCarthy's side had failed to register back-to-back wins all campaign, and many will have been surprised that they finally achieved the feat against promotion favourites Newcastle United. 

"Although they beat us last time around, I wouldn't say it came as a surprise," midfielder Grant Ward told us earlier today. 

"The way we've been working and training, I felt it could always happen." 

"We've needed a few wins as of late so it was a good time to get it, and against top opposition as well." 

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy has been telling us today that he expects a few players to leave Portman Road at the end of the season. 

The boss expects to sit down with club owner Marcus Evans in the coming days and come up with a plan for Town going forward.

Captain Luke Chambers and his teammates Christophe Berra and Jonathan Douglas are among those whose deals with the club are coming to an end, and all could potentially move on. 

"There's a real opportunity to freshen things up because there's a lot of players out of contract and we have a few here who are on loan," McCarthy said. 

"Do they want to stay? Do we want them? Can we sign them? There's every chance of a busy summer."

Police say they've had very few calls about anti-social behaviour in Hadleigh, despite more than 180 comments on social media recently.

Sgt Jo Miah said: "I've kept an eye on it over the weekend but unfortunately looking at the number of calls the police got, we've got a very very limited number of calls. 

"It's so important because we go to a monthly priority setting meeting and this is where data is analysed and we can look at where we need to flood areas with more police officers. 

"The more calls we get the more resources we'll be able to put into an area."

The mother of a three-year-old has told us the behaviour of teenagers at the recreation ground off Pykenham Way deters her from visiting the area.

An organisation which supports people between the ages of 11 and 20, has admitted there's not enough to do in Hadleigh, describing the town as "one of those places where young people can feel very trapped".

Zach Corrie, from the Porch Project, external, said: "We're trying to put on activities throughout the week, but there's only so much we can do.

"With the travel links, and cost of travel rising, I think young people can feel very trapped.

"It's no excuse for anti-social behaviour but... It's about instilling levels of respect into the young people and building better relationships to lower the rates of anti-social behaviour in the area."

Zach was responding to criticism of the behaviour of teenagers at the recreation ground at Pykenham Way.

A mum from Hadleigh says she doesn't feel safe taking her three-year-old to her local playground, because of anti-social behaviour there.

Referring to the recreation ground at Pykenham Way, Jess Lacey described the behaviour of teenagers there: "Throwing crisp packets on the floor, empty bottles, ripping up tin cans, throwing them on the floor.

"I did at one point say to them look, are you going to pick those up, because that's dangerous, and they all just stared, done nothing about it, eventually got up and walked off, leaving all of the rubbish."

Cedarwood Year 6's football team were victorious in an Ipswich area tournament held at Ipswich Town, followed by a Southern Area tournament held by Brentford in Southall.

The school's website say, externals their "reward" is to play at Wembley before the Championship Play-Off final in May.

Meet Ben Blowes, who's running his 10th London Marathon, this time with a tumble dryer on his back:

A new conservation project is being piloted in the county, with the aim of helping to protect Britain's wood pasture and parkland habitats.

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The People's Trust for Endangered Species, external (PTES) says these habitats are home to several endangered species such as the violet crick beetle and the pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly.

Megan Gimber from PTES says: "We believe Suffolk may have a plethora of remaining wood pasture fragments, so we hope that local residents will help us by surveying these sites."

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Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Mendham's Peter Wright will be keen to bounce back from last week's disappointing showing on Merseyside when he returns to the Premier League, external oche tonight.

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The 46-year-old is up against 2009 champion James Wade at Belfast's SSE Arena.

Despite recording a defeat and a draw a week ago, Wright remains second in the table, two points behind world number one Michael van Gerwen, although the Dutchman has a match in hand.

The mother of missing serviceman Corrie Mckeague says it may take police longer than the original estimation of 10 weeks to complete the search of a landfill site near Cambridge.

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Writing on the "Find Corrie, external" Facebook page, Nicola Urquhart says: "We are in the 7th week now and we are already aware the police may require an extra week."

Suffolk Police say they review what's happening at the landfill site on a regular basis and that no end date for the search has been set.

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