The sister of the Conservatives' West Suffolk general election candidate Matt Hancock has been seriously injured in a fall at the Badminton Horse Trials.

As the Daily Telegraph has reported, external, Emily Gilruth suffered a traumatic brain injury at the event on Saturday, and was airlifted to Bristol's Southmead Hospital.

In August 2012, Mr Hancock won a charity horse race at Newmarket after training as a jockey during the parliamentary summer recess.

Last year he came second in the amateur Town Plate on the July Course.

Mr Hancock is defending the West Suffolk seat he first won in 2010.

Bury Free Press

Needham Market manager Mark Morsley and captain Kem Izzet bowed out from their respective roles, external in style tonight, as the Marketmen defeated Lowestoft Town 3-2 to win the Suffolk FA Premier Cup at Colchester United.

Image source, Bury Free Press

Kelly McCormack
BBC Radio Suffolk

The leaders of St Edmundsbury Borough, and Forest Heath District councils are reassuring staff the move to merge and create a new joint authority shouldn't affect them.

James Waters (pictured right), Conservative leader of Forest Heath, said: "This is not about staff cuts... this is making us more robust, more fit for purpose, more strength to deliver quality services. 

"If the staff are concerned this morning, just get in, do your job the way you're doing it and it should be fine."

Leader of St Edmundsbury, John Griffiths, Conservative, added: "Actually it's thanks to their hard work that we're in a position to do this and I hope the staff will look forward to this making their jobs more satisfying and easier."

Plans published today suggest the two councils, who've shared a chief executive for several years, and have merged back-room staff, will come together to create a brand new council by 2019.

Both councils already have a shared website as well, called West Suffolk - working together, external.

Scotland defender Christophe Berra is to leave Ipswich Town to enable him to move north to be closer to his daughter.

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Ipswich Town have this morning confirmed that defender Christophe Berra has left the club. The news comes as no big surprise. 

An option on extending the 32-year-old's contract by a further year was not taken up by the club recently, and Berra has made no secret of a desire to be closer to his daughter in his native Scotland.

Berra joined the Blues on a free transfer in the summer of 2013, and went on to make 174 appearances for Mick McCarthy's side in the Championship.

He played a big part in helping Ipswich reach the play-offs in 2015, but was sent off in the second leg of the semi-final defeat to rivals Norwich City.

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Former Colchester United midfielder Kem Izzet was back at the Western Homes Community Stadium last night in Needham Market, external colours.

Image source, Ben Pooley

The 36-year-old helped the Markemen to a 3-2 victory over Lowestoft Town, external in the final of the Suffolk Premier Cup in what was his final appearance for Mark Morsley's side. 

"It's been a good four years and I've enjoyed every bit of it," Izzet told us at full time. 

"While it's not all about me, I've left the club in a better place and I'm happy with the job I've done. It's a great time to leave."

Izzet will now take up a player-manager role at another club, the identity of which is expected to be revealed later this week.

St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath councils already save £4m by sharing services.

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Mark Morsley (right) hailed this campaign "the best season in Needham Market's history" as his side beat Lowestoft Town to win the Suffolk Premier Cup last night.

Image source, Ben Pooley

The match, which was played at Colchester United, was Morsley's last in the dugout before he takes on the role of chairman at Bloomfields next season.

"It's a nice way to finish," Morsley told us. "People at the football club have worked hard and this is a great accolade to all of those as well as me personally.

"We deserved the win. It wasn't the greatest game in the world, but Jack Simmons scored a great goal to make it 2-1 and then we played really well for the first 20 minutes of the second half."

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Needham Market are this year's Suffolk Premier Cup winners following a 3-2 victory over Lowestoft Town.

Luke Ingram gave the Marketmen an early lead at Colchester's Western Homes Community Stadium, but it didn't last long as Frazer Blake-Tracy levelled for the Trawler Boys. 

 A superb goal from Jack Simmons just before half time, and one from John Sands shortly after the break put Needham back in control, before Blake-Tracy grabbed what proved to be a late consolation. 

The match was Mark Morsley's last as Needham Market manager, before he takes on the role of chairman at the club.

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

Another cloudy day but it's not going to feel so cold across the BBC East region.

The keen north/north-easterly breeze has fallen light overnight but you're still going to feel it along the north Norfolk coast. 

Elsewhere there'll be a slightly more mild feel to the day, with highs of about 13C (55F) inland. 

Cloud will slowly disappear overnight, leading to a cold night, with a chance of a slight frost in some rural spots, and a much brighter start to Wednesday.

Watch my full forecast here:

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

Welcome from the team who are sipping their first hot drinks of the day as they get set to keep you up-to-date with events from across the county.

Following the announcement at the beginning of the year that a new "super" council is being created in east Suffolk, two of the county's councils in the west have announced plans to join together to create another new authority for the county. 

We'll bring you more on that, as well as our regular news, and sport updates.

I've had a sneak preview of the weather prospects, and I don't think we're going to see much of the sun during the day, so I thought I'd bring you this photograph of a strange brightness in the sky from BBC Weather Watcher "Sunset Alli".

Kate Kinsella will bring us a full forecast next.

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

That's it for our live updates until 08:00 on Tuesday, although any breaking news will still appear here overnight.

Our main story during the day has been a massive gorse fire close to Southwold Golf Club, which broke out yesterday afternoon but crews remained on site for more than 24 hours.

Elsewhere, we've been dipping into Ed Sheeran's appearance on Desert Island Discs, and trying to spot Britain's largest bird of prey, which is thought to have flown from Norfolk to Essex.

Scroll down for more on these and other stories, and send yourself a reminder to join us again in the morning.

Have a great evening - we hope you like this photo taken in Aldeburgh by BBC Weather Watcher "Carlas Garden". She's been very busy today and uploaded lots of lovely pictures, but we particularly like this one:

Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather

It will be a largely dry night, with cloud feeding down from the north and the winds easing to a light north to north-easterly.

Under clear skies, temperatures in some spots could fall as low as 3C (37F). A touch of frost can't be ruled out.

It will be a chilly start to Tuesday, which is likely to be a rather cloudy day, but there should be some brightness and sunshine.

Light north to north-easterly winds. Highs of 15C (59F).

BBC Weather has more.

Police say the two people taken to hospital following a crash on the A1088 at Ixworth this morning were travelling in the same vehicle.

The two men, who are in their 20s, are both from nearby Bury St Edmunds.

One is being treated for life-threatening injuries at Addenbrooke's in Cambridge, while the other is described as being in a serious but stable condition. 

The driver of the second vehicle involved was uninjured.

A man has been arrested and released pending further inquiries, following an incident in Sudbury last week which led to a man being air-lifted to hospital with a single stab wound.

Police were alerted by the ambulance service shortly after 12:05 on Thursday.

It's believed there had been an altercation between two men in Waldingfield Road a little earlier. 

The victim then walked to East Street where emergency services were called. He's since been discharged from hospital.

A 21-year-old man, of no fixed address, was brought into custody at Bury St Edmunds Police Investigation Centre on Sunday where he was interviewed by police before being released.

Richard Haugh
BBC Introducing in Suffolk

If you're into grime and have a spare 10 minutes, this is a good read, external. 

Author Tom Usher looks back to the early 2000s, when Ipswich's Hectic Squad were amongst the shining lights of the emerging scene, and their track What Do You Know Bout Ips one of the most anthemic.

But as the genre continued to make its way into the mainstream, what became of Hectic Squad?

Find out here, external.

Image source, YouTube: EzeMedia Videos

As we mentioned this morning, police are becoming "increasingly concerned" for the welfare of a man who's gone missing from his home in Clacton.

Here are some more details about Nigel Kedar, who was last seen heading south from Norwich following the A140.

Click on the link below to share it on Twitter. 

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

I went to Bradfield Woods, external near Bury St Edmunds on Sunday afternoon for a walk and spotted this - but I have no idea what it is.

If you can help, please contact me via the "Get involved" link at the top of this page.

Thanks!