Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Mildenhall Town, external rounded off a highly impressive season yesterday with a 2-1 defeat of Suffolk rivals Newmarket Town in the final of the Thurlow Nunn League Challenge Cup.

Image source, @MildenhallTown

Dean Greygoose's side had already won the Thurlow Nunn Premier Division title, ending their campaign nine points clear at the top of the table. 

"I'm so proud of the players," Greygoose told us. "We have done something that hasn't been done for a long, long time and we've made history for the club.

"This is why I manage. I could go and get a job full time in an academy or push myself to get a job as a first team goalkeeping coach, but this is as close you can get to playing, and it's worth it for this feeling."

Image source, Colin Davidson / National Portrait Gallery

He's all over the singles chart and now he's all over the wall at the National Portrait Gallery.

The museum in London has acquired a new portrait of Ed Sheeran, painted by Belfast-based artist Colin Davidson.

It's Ed's first ever painted portrait and measures four feet square - so just a little taller than Ed is (sorry Ed, joke mate).

Ed sat for the artist at his home in Suffolk in 2015 for three hours, during which Davidson made twenty drawings from life and took reference photographs.

Colin Davidson said: ‘When painting a portrait I am looking for the moment when the person is almost unaware of me being there and I feel I got it with Ed. 

"I deliberately didn’t want Ed to perform and that was odd for him. 

"But there is a youthful aspect to the portrait but also something experienced beyond his years."

Is it us, or does he look familiar?

Bury Free Press

Stowmarket Town have been boosted, external by the news that Mid Suffolk District Council have approved a £10,000 grant to help towards upgrading their floodlights.

Image source, Bury Free Press

A man who died when his motorcycle collided with a car near Ipswich on Saturday is expected to be named later today.

Police say the crash between a white Audi and a blue Yamaha motorcycle took place just before 13:00 on Henley Road in Akenham, between Lower Road and Rede Lane.

The male motorcycle rider died at the scene.

Two people in the car suffered injuries which are not thought to be serious.

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Ipswich Witches, external' director of speedway Chris Louis has been telling us the club are likely to be without their Argentinian rider Nico Covatti (pictured) for some time.

Image source, Stephen Waller

The popular heat leader suffered a badly broken wrist last month and the Witches are today expected to announce the rider they have signed to deputise for him. 

Louis believes it is imperative to find a replacement while Covatti recovers, and adds that the new man will make his debut against Glasgow on Thursday night at Foxhall.

"Nico has had some metal work taken out of his wrist and some more metal work put back in. He also had a skin graft which could take time to recover," he said.

"It was important to go into Thursday's meeting, particularly as it's against a side as good as Glasgow, with as many of our own men as we could."

Newmarket Racourses say British band Texas will complete their Newmarket Nights line-up, external, appearing at the July Course on 28 July.

It's the bands first appearance at the event since 2011.

Tickets go on general sale, external on Thursday.

Image source, Chuff Media

Other acts playing the racecourse on different nights include Culture Club, The Jacksons, Little Mix and James.

East Anglian Daily Times

This is the front page of the East Anglian Daily Times, external:

Image source, EADT

A boat is being delivered to Ipswich waterfront - mainly travelling east on the A14 from Cambridgeshire.

Businesses in the county are losing £94m a year because of smoking breaks, according to the anti-smoking group ASH (Action on Smoking and Health, external).

It says the cost of cigarette breaks adds up to more than sick days, treating smoking-related disease and passive smoking put together.

What do you think? Does it irritate you if your colleagues take a break to go outside and have a cigarette, but you're stuck at your desk? Share your thoughts via the "Get involved" link at the top of this page.

Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

The funeral of an 18-year-old who was killed with two friends in a car crash last month will take place later today.

Dominic O'Neill, who lived in Pulham Market, was in a car with Billy Hines, 16, and Kyle Warren, 17, when their vehicle left the road and crashed into a tree near the town..

The funeral, at Pulham Market church, is the last of the three funerals. 

Image source, PA

Steps' comeback album Tears On The Dancefloor was 4,000 sales ahead of Ed's ÷ (Divide) at one point last week.

But like a 3-0 first half lead over FC Barcelona, you need a much bigger margin than that over chart-slayer Ed.

He fought back to claim a seventh week at the top of the album charts,

Image source, Official Chart Company

Clean Bandit succeeded where Steps failed though.

They, like Harry Styles before them, knocked Ed off the top of the singles charts with their track Symphony, which features the vocal talents of Super Swede Zara Larsson.

Something tells us Ed might be back at the top again soon.

Here's the new chart-toppers performing their #1 track on US TV below.

Read more.

Ipswich Star

Here's the front page of today's Ipswich Star, external:

Image source, Ipswich Star

Lucy Martin
BBC Weather

It will be a mainly dry morning, then scattered afternoon showers are expected.

Some pleasant sunny intervals are possible, mainly in the west, but it will be feeling cool with brisk north-easterly winds.

Highs of 15C (59F).

See my full update for the day below...

Find out more about the weather where you live on the BBC Weather website.

The region's ambulance service says they were "inundated" with calls on the day an 86-year-old woman was left lying on the floor for six hours at her sheltered accommodation in Ipswich.

Spokesman Karl Edwards said: "We're conducting a thorough investigation which will give us the full details but, in essence, on that particular day, we got absolutely inundated with treble nine activity.

"Every ambulance that was allocated [to Mrs Versey] then got allocated to a more life-threatening response. 

"The pure demand of our service just outstripped the resources that we had available." 

The region's ambulance service says it was inundated with 999 calls, on the day a woman in her 80s was left lying on the floor waiting for an ambulance for six hours.

Spokesman Karl Edwards said: "We're conducting a thorough investigation which will give us the full details but in essence, on that particular day, we got absolutely inundated with treble-nine activity and every ambulance that was allocated [to the patient] then got allocated to a more life-threatening response.

"The pure demand on our service just outstripped the resources that we had available."

Betty Versey, 86, who suffered a fall at her sheltered accommodation in Ipswich, is still in hospital.

Her son-in-law Paul Copping, who told us last week he was outraged by the wait, said: "I'm still not happy with it, because leaving an 86-year-old laying on the floor, and no-one allowed to touch her, at the top it's a six-minute drive to the hospital to where she lived.

"To take nearly six hours - that was disgusting."

Lucy Martin
BBC Weather

It'll be cloudy at times with scattered afternoon showers expected, although some pleasantly warm sunny intervals are possible, mainly in the west.

Top temperature: 15C (59F).

There will be a mainly dry evening with variable cloud cover, but patchy rain is expected later in the night. 

Brisk north-easterly winds will make it feel chilly, with lows of 6C (43F).

Get the full forecast where you live, from BBC Weather.

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Welcome to our live coverage, I hope you enjoyed the long weekend.

The team here is poised to bring you regular news and sport updates from across the county, but don't forget, you can join in too if there's something happening where you live or work that we're not mentioning.

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