Kate Scotter
BBC News

The girlfriend of missing RAF Honington airman Corrie Mckeague, who revealed in January she is expecting his baby, has posted a message on Facebook saying how much she "loves and misses" him.

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She also shared a photograph of herself in the latter stages of pregnancy.

Ms Oliver, who had met Mr Mckeague via a dating site months before he went missing, is due to give birth in late spring/early summer.

Image source, April Oliver

The girlfriend of missing RAF gunner Corrie Mckeague also uploaded an emotional message.

Kate Arkell
BBC Radio Suffolk

A Stowmarket teenager who admitted threatening shop staff with an axe has been told he will be jailed if he misbehaves again.

Ipswich Crown Court heard Connor Higgins, 19, from Kent Road, had been dealing cannabis and had got himself into debt with his suppliers.

One Sunday morning in March, he went into the One Stop shop on Ipswich Road and asked for cash back. He was refused and was heard to say "if I don't get this money, I'm going to die". 

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He returned a couple of minutes later, wearing a different top, his face partly covered, an axe in his hand, and asked staff for "all the cash in the tills".

Despite being told it "wasn't worth it' he asked again and was handed less than £100 in total. 

Higgins was recognised by shop staff, and police arrested him within an hour. 

He was sentenced to two years in prison for the robbery, and eight months for dealing cannabis, both suspended for two years. 

Six other offences were taken into consideration. 

Judge Rupert Overbury told him he must also do 200 hours of community work to pay back the community he stole from.

Sentencing him he said Higgins had no relevent previous convictions and he had "said sorry right from the start".

Mr Overbury said he had "acted through panic and stupidity" and that it was "in the public interest to suspend the sentence, so that he could demonstrate he could lead a useful life and behave himself".

He told him if he put another foot wrong, he would be jailed and it would be his own fault.

Firefighters used an aerial platform to reach the bird that was caught in anti-pigeon netting.

Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live

A Bletchley Park mathematician is being recognised this weekend, 100 years after his birth. 

Bill Tutte, a Cambridge graduate from Newmarket, helped to unravel the Lorenz machine, which was a more complex system than the Enigma and used by the German high command.

Dr David Kenyon, the research historian at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, said his role was "important and little known" as he was such a "modest man". 

He explained that he came to the park from Cambridge University aged 24 and worked as a codebreaker in a department that had so far been unable to crack the code. 

In Tutte's memoirs he wrote "as an act of desperation, they gave it to me", and just a few months later he broke it. 

Image source, Richard Youlden

After the war he was appointed a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, before emigrating to Canada. 

He died on 2 May 2002, aged 84. 

Image source, Shaun Armstrong

The Bill Tutte Symposium, external is on Sunday (his birthday) at Bletchley and Bill Tutte: Mathematician + Codebreaker opens to the general public on Monday. 

Andrew Woodger
BBC News

The bird of prey, as yet unidentified, was released from the Lloyds Avenue building by fire crews at about 13:00.

This shows the bird when it was stuck above Lloyds Bank: 

Crowds gathered to watch the unfolding drama:

Once freed by the Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, the bird flew across the Cornhill and landed on the roof of the Old Post Office building.

However, the bird then flew back across the square to the Lloyds Avenue building and got caught in the netting again, but higher up this time (circled):

 Fire crews had left the scene by then, so the story continues.... 

Okay, while we grab a quick panini, here's some more new music for you lot to get your teeth into.

There must be *a limit to how many tracks you are allowed to have in the charts as Ed Sheeran has let Zara have this one to herself.

The Swedish pop star does not want to be yours I'm afraid, or at least she's having major doubts in the video above.

We're not sure she should be dancing so close to a burning car in a flammable-looking puffer jacket though.

The track is taken from her album So Good, which was released in March.  

*Only joking, Ed is totally allowed to monopolise the charts as he wants.

The bird of prey which has been stuck in netting in Ipswich town centre has been freed.

More to follow.... we hope to find out for definite what species it is and where it's come from...

Steve Martin
BBC Radio Suffolk

I'm at the Cornhill in Ipswich, where a big bird of prey is caught in the netting on the side of the Lloyds building.

For the last 10 minutes it's been eating a pigeon that's also caught up in the netting.

It's got some bells attached to its feet, I can see a tag on the back of it. We think it's a kite.

Down below there's quite a big crowd. A cordon has been put in place and we've got three fire engines, including one with a turntable ladder.

Fire crews are attempting to rescue a bird of prey - possibly a kite - from the netting on the Lloyds Avenue building on Ipswich's Cornhill.

Watch it live here: 

The fire service is attempting to free a bird, possibly a bird of prey, that's become stuck in netting on a building on the Cornhill in Ipswich town centre.

We'll keep you posted on the rescue attempt...

Image source, Ben Parker

A meat cleaver, an airgun and a carving knife are among 36 weapons that have been seized in schools in Suffolk over the last five years.

The disclosure comes as police figures show more than 2,500 weapons have been seized from schools lin England and Wales over the past two years.

Geoff Barton, former headteacher at the King Edward VI school in Bury St Edmunds and now general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, external, said: "In my last week actually as a school leader, a girl had specifically brought in a pair of scissors and she was going round saying she was going to use them to stab someone.

"Now what we had there was someone who was pretty emotionally distressed, and her motivation in having a weapon, as it were, was because she wanted to hurt people so it would always be difficult to find particular reasons for that."

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Suffolk's Peter Wright was pipped to the Premier League, external Winner's Bonus last night on the final night of the regular season in Aberdeen.

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After Wright had hammered Raymond van Barneveld 7-1, Michael van Gerwen had to beat Gary Anderson to finish top of the table, and secure a cheque for £25,000 - which he did, 7-4.

The line-up for next Thursday's semi-finals at the O2 in London was also confirmed last night.

The first game will be a re-match between van Gerwen and Anderson before Wright faces Phil Taylor.

After one of the driest Aprils - just 41% of the monthly average rainfall - it was refreshing to see that rain has fallen overnight.

But by how much? Dan Holley's tweet shows the dry spell continues;

UKIP says it's decided not to put up a candidate in the Suffolk Coastal constituency at next month's general election, as it's "totally clear" that the Conservative Dr Therese Coffey will be re-elected whatever happens.

Image source, Therese Coffey

Dr Coffey has responded by saying: "It's kind of them to say that, but I don't take anything for granted."

UKIP says voters in the constituency "should demand and expect clear reassurance from Dr Coffey that she will commit to put her full weight as an Environment Department Minister behind their interests in the Brexit process".

The candidates for Suffolk Coastal are:

• Dr Therese Coffey (Conservative)
• Cameron Matthews (Labour)
• James Sandbach (Liberal Democrats)
• Eamonn O'Nolan (Green)
• Philip Young (independent)

Dr Coffey had a majority of nearly 19,000 in the 2015 general election.

Three men have been given prison sentences at Ipswich Crown Court, following the discovery of more than 2,400 cannabis plants in Occold.

Image source, Suffolk Police

Stephen Carpenter, 50, of Holly Avenue, Stanmore, north west London, and Steven Duggan, 44, of Lullingstone Crescent, Orpington in south London were both sentenced to 34 months imprisonment.

Lee Denton, 32, of Madan Road, Westerham, Kent was sentenced to 46 months in jail.

All three (pictured l-r - Carpenter, Duggan and Denton) had pleaded guilty to the production of cannabis.

Police estimated the cannabis could have had an estimated street value of £530,000 to £1.5m.

Image source, Suffolk Police

Nicki Durbin, whose son Luke has been missing since a night out in Ipswich in 2006, says there may still be people who haven't been traced from that night who could help with the inquiry.

Speaking the day after police re-released some CCTV images of potential witnesses, she said: "It might just be the people in those images are completely unaware, so if they do recognise themselves or recognise someone else I'd be so, so grateful if they went to the police just to be ruled out of any connection to Luke. 

"They might not even have seen Luke, but yes I would appeal for anyone who does see themselves in those images to come forward."

Image source, Suffolk Police

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The police major investigation team, which took over the case of missing teenager Luke Durbin in November 2010, has been praised by Luke's mother,

Image source, Suffolk Police

Speaking 11 years after she last saw her son as he left the family home in Hollesley for a night out in Ipswich, Nicki Durbin said the team has been "relentless".

"There will obviously come a point when there are no new leads to follow, I do understand that, but the difference from them taking over and the police prior to them, it's knowing that everything has been done that can possibly be done and that's been a healing process in that way. 

"I don't feel I'm having to fight for my son's disappearance to be taken seriously."

The mother of a teenager who has been missing for 11 years says: "He literally walked out our door laughing, and that's the last time we ever saw him."

Nicki Durbin, pictured last year, said after leaving their home in Hollesley, Luke Durbin, who was 19, met up with friends and the group decided to go clubbing in Ipswich.

"One of his friends came straight home, because he'd had too much to drink" she said.

"Luke and his other friend went to what was Zest nightclub [opposite Ipswich Railway Station]. 

"They got separated and although it was later established that Luke was trying to get home, he never got home.

"I will never stop searching for Luke and my biggest fear is that I will never find out where Luke is now."

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Even though the Ipswich Witches, external sixth consecutive home win has lifted them joint top of the Championship table, their team manager believes they're capable of doing even better.

Image source, Stephen Waller

Three riders - Danny King, Cameron Heeps and Rory Schlein - were paid for 12 points as the Witches hammered Scunthorpe Scorpions 59-32 last night at Foxhall.

“We’ve had a great start to the season at home and we have had a lot of big wins but we cannot rest on that," Ritchie Hawkins told the club website. 

"There are a lot tougher tests to come this season and I think we are probably only racing at about 70% still. I think we have a lot of improvement in us."