Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Officers say they will continue to search a landfill site in Cambridgeshire for at least another three weeks in the hope of finding the missing airman, Corrie Mckeague.

More than 3,500 tonnes of waste at Milton has already been sifted through in the last 10 and a half weeks.

The RAF gunner disappeared after a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds eight months ago.

BBC Weather Watchers

It's been brolly in one hand - camera in the other - for our merry band of Weather Watchers today.

sallysunshine captured the rain - literally - in Stowmarket.

This was the scene at Whatfield this morning, taken by Wind Watcher at 09:57.

And victorthevole caught the raindrops on a iris in Burgh.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Three men have been jailed for a total of 10 years and seven months - for masterminding an operation selling fake DVDs that raked in more than £500,000.

It follows an investigation by Suffolk Trading Standards.

Frankie Ansell, of Grove Road, Beccles was jailed for 45 months. His cousin Lee Ansell, of Loughborough, and another man, Howard Davey, of Eastbourne, were both jailed for 41 months. A fourth man received a suspended sentence.

A search of the Beccles house recovered £5,670 in cash, 600 counterfeit DVD titles, and electronic devices.

Image source, Suffolk Trading Standards

Trading Standards said the four men managed the sophisticated counterfeit DVD business over a two-and-a-half-year period, selling more than 31,000 DVDs, worth more than £500,000.

The operation involved the use of fake identities and paperwork, as well as money laundering practices.

Kieron Sharp, Chief Executive of the Federation Against Copyright Theft, said: "Many people think piracy is a victimless crime, however criminal operations like this have devastating effects on the creative industries and the people working in them."

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Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

These are the grand old bells of St Margaret's Church in Ipswich.

They've hung in the Grade 1 listed church for 400 years. And now they're on their way to get a much-needed lick of polish.

This morning they were taken down and loaded on to a lorry ahead of a major restoration and recasting job.

It's been a century since the bells last had a bath and a buff.

The whole process is costing £272,000, which is being paid for by a Heritage Lottery Fund and a host of donations.

They'll be back in place in October.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

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Police have arrested and charged a 13-year-old boy with causing a danger to road users.

It follows reports from the public that pieces of wood were being thrown onto the eastbound A14 near Copdock on 11 March.

The boy from Ipswich - who is too young to be named - will appear before Ipswich Youth Court next month.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

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The mother of missing airman Corrie McKeague says she still hopes for that phone call from police to say her son has been found.

It's eight months since the 23-year-old disappeared on a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds.

The search for Corrie has focused in recent weeks on a landfill site at Milton, near Cambridge, after discrepancies in bin lorry weight suggested he may have crawled into one for shelter.

The investigation has so far cost in excess of £1m.

Nicola Urquhart told Good Morning Britain that she fears someone has lied to police.

"Only four vehicles go in there," she said. "He's left in one of those vehicles, so either somebody's not telling the truth or he's ended up at the landfill.

"The search that they've been carrying out, they have found things as small as mobile phones - it really is a thorough search. I have no doubt from the way that the police have described it to me that if Corrie were there they would have found him."

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Police have arrested a 19-year-old man - and seized three quad bikes - in an investigation into antisocial behaviour in Beccles.

They've been getting reports of vehicles being ridden around George Westwood Way (below), Cucumber Lane, Banham Road and Rigbourne Hill areas and up to Ellough.

Extra patrols have been carried out in the areas and there were concerns the vehicles were uninsured and without number plates.sorry

Four riders were stopped on the A12 at Kessingland on Sunday. Two fled but the teenager was detained later. He's been released under investigation.

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Sgt Mark Woodmansee said: "Having taken three of the quad bikes off the road we hope this will reduce the issues, however we will continue to carry out both high visibility and plain clothes patrols in the area."

Vikki Irwin
BBC Radio Suffolk political reporter

Conservative candidate Peter Aldous found himself on the back foot with a question about the rise in the use of foodbanks.

He had to defend his party's policy on universal credit, where Lowestoft has been a pilot site for the rollout of the benefit reform and has experienced difficulties. Labour's Sonia Barker called the pilot an experiment with people's lives. "They are using hunger as a political tool," she said.

You could not have a debate here without a question on the third crossing for Lowestoft and whether it will happen, the money having been promised under David Cameron's government. The Greens, UKIP and the Liberal Democrats all committed to it. Conservative Peter Aldous went as far as staking his reputation on it and guaranteed the bridge would come. "There are processes to undertake," he said, "but I am prepared to put my neck on the line."

However, Labour's Sonia Barker said she hadn't got leader Jeremy Corbyn's confirmed backing on financing the bridge when he was in the area last week - but added that the party's manifesto put infrastructure spending as a top priority.

Vikki Irwin
BBC Radio Suffolk political reporter

It may have been raining in Lowestoft, but it certainly didn't dampen the atmosphere as the candidates for Waveney took to the airwaves on BBC Radio Suffolk.

The constituency is number 20 on Labour's hit list and the incumbent Conservative has a majority of just over 2000 votes. The area also voted 63% to leave in the EU referendum - so Brexit is very much an election issue here.

The debate kicked off with the question: "Which way would you vote if there was an EU referendum tomorrow?" Both Conservative and Labour candidates said they'd vote to leave - that's despite campaigning to remain the first time round. The Lib Dems and Greens said it would be remain for them - and unsurprisingly UKIP said they'd vote leave.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Lines have now reopened at Newmarket following the earlier medical emergency on the tracks.

However, delays are expected until around midday.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

This is the unusual scene by the Winelodge on Bridge Road in Lowestoft at the moment, as traffic police work to clear a road traffic collision.

The advice is to avoid the road for the time being.

There were delays for passengers travelling into London this morning after a swan sauntered on to the railway line at Manningtree.

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One passenger told the firm it was "ridiculous", leading them to reply:

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Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

We'll bring you the view of our political reporter Vikki Irwin shortly. But here's a flavour of the BBC Radio Suffolk Waveney candidate debate this morning:

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

The jobs figures out this morning say 2,340 people are out of work and claiming benefits in Waveney - the ninth monthly increase in a row. Jobs and the economy were among the hot topics the audience wanted to discuss today.

Jacky Howe (Lib Dem): "I'm amazed that nothing's been done before it's got to this point. There is no attempt to look at the situation for young people, there's no jobs for young people. I would encourage industry to come back here to tidy up this town - and get that third crossing built."

Peter Aldous (Conservative): "We need to carry on with the investment we've started - investment in the third crossing, investment in the Beccles relief road, in flood defences - which will bring jobs to the area - in Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science) - which is important for fishing - and work to realise our full potential in the tourism industry.

Sonia Barker (Labour) said Labour would introduce a National Investment Bank which would be distributed to the regions, allowing local people to decide the priorities for their area. A hard Brexit will mean we'll lose the money as a regeneration area. We need to have a link with colleges to ensure young people are skilled.

Elfrede Brambly-Crawshaw (Greens) We need investment in this area. We know the green energy sector would provide many jobs. We need to raise the profile of Waveney - jobs are created by investment.

Bert Poole (UKIP) Lowestoft has always been at the end of the queue for everything. The fishing industry - we could easily have more employment in that - it needs investment and growth. We have got to concentrate on training people for these jobs.

Peter Aldous (Conservative) said the NHS is safe in the Conservatives' hands. They have put more money in since 2010 and will invest another £10bn by 2020, he added. "There are increasing demands. The health service has a lot of people working really hard. They are almost victims of their own success. Doctors, hospitals, healthcare providers need to be working more closely together. There needs to be more local hubs. The NHS remains here under the Conservative Government and will continue to do so."

Sonia Barker (Labour): "We are suffering with cuts across the NHS, it's underfunded. The Labour Government overtook a crumbling health service. In the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area, we've lost Southwold Hospital, Beccles injury unit shut, Greyfriars has shut, £8m after four years, that's financial chaos as far as I'm concerned under the Conservative Government. The only way to save the NHS is to vote in a Labour Government."  

Elfrede Brambly-Crawshaw (Greens): "The private finance initiative (PFI) in hospitals has been a disaster. Our hospitals are burdened with debt. What's the point of throwing money at our health service. PFI has been a disaster, we need out. We need to see how hospitals can leave PFI."  

Jacky Howe (Lib Dem): "We are going to put on a penny on tax to go to the NHS. It needs more money. Since the Brexit decision, we have 20,000 nursing places unfilled." 

Bert Poole (UKIP): "PFI was a disaster. You could give the NHS £10bn and it'll get swallowed up and not help anything. There has to be a non-political stakeholder meeting, seriously looking at the NHS."

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Len Jacklin asked the panel about the third crossing and whether it will be built by 2022. 

Bert Poole (UKIP) said he would honour the deal - and make sure it was done. 

Sonia Barker (Labour) said the money needed is locked in Suffolk County Council and that she would make sure the money was ring-fenced specifically for that project. She said she raised it with leader Jeremy Corbyn earlier this week but that he didn't promise the money would be forthcoming.

Elfrede Brambly-Crawshaw (Greens) said the party would push ahead with the crossing plans - on one condition - to make sure measures to take traffic away from other parts of Lowestroft are put in place - so communities can regenerate without heavy congestion.  

Jacky Howe (Lib Dem) said the crossing was essential. She said she would press hard to have it happen. The pollution locally is horrendous without it, she said. 

Peter Aldous (Conservative) said yes - there are processes such as planning permissions to undertake but it would go ahead, even with a change in administration. He said he was prepared to put his neck on the line.

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BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Rail services between Cambridge and Ipswich are being affected this morning, due to an incident at a level crossing near Newmarket.

British Transport Police says a male cyclist is being treated for a "medical episode" close to the railway track at Woodditton.

No vehicles were involved, police say.

The incident happened around 09:15.

Operator Greater Anglia has advised passengers to be prepared for delays on the line until 11:00.

In his question, audience member David Finnegan referred to figures from the Trussell Trust, which state that since 2014 there's been an 81% increase in the number of under 16s and their families in Waveney having to rely on foodbanks to survive.

Sonia Barker (Labour) said despite Britain being the sixth richest country in the world, children are being punished by austerity. "I cannot believe that they are using hunger as a political tool," she said. "The universal tax credit system is in utter chaos. This area and Great Yarmouth have been used as a kind of mini business experiment." She said Theresa May had presided over a "callousness" towards poorer families. She called for funding to be put into children's services, changes to the universal tax credit system, and for zero hours contracts to go.

Elfrede Brambly-Crawshaw (Greens): "We need to solve this problem by paying people properly, we need a proper living wage. We need to think about what costs people are facing - as a young family myself I fully understand the costs people face, half your income can be spent on rent. Debt is crippling young people. People do not have security." She added that the Greens would have a rental cap to enable people to have security in their lives.

Bert Poole (UKIP) was shaking his head. "Why are nurses on £30,000 a year having to go to foodbanks?" he said. "Housing is a big thing, rent does take a big chuck of their wages. Solving the housing problem is going to be really difficult and there won't be a silver bullet for that."

Jacky Howe (Lib Dem): "I'm ashamed to live in a country that has young people and poor people relying on foodbaks - its a personal shame. They don't go because they want a cheap deal - they go because their families are hungry. Job security is very important to people. We would raise the minuimum wage so people can afford the basic necessities like food, heating their houses and paying their rent."

Peter Aldous (Conservative) defended the foodbanks system and paid tribute to workers. "They help people out of their hour of need. What we need to ensure is that their role is kept to a minimum. In this area the issue of zero contracts has presented challenges - I've had the employment minister down here - we are putting things in place to improve them." 

Peter Aldous (Conservative): The Government has been looking very closely at the energy market. We introduced a cap for meters which came in last month. It's an issue that's causing families a lot of difficulty at the moment. We must not let up on improving the energy market.

Sonia Barker (Labour): Labour would take back control of our key services. You have to make sure the energy market is not ripping people off, that our homes are well insulated and if there's a growth in green energy, that'd be great for this area.

Elfrede Brambly-Crawshaw (Greens): Competition in the market will not solve things. We need to bring energy back into the public sector, we need massive investment in green energy. Is it right that the poorest people in our community are paying the most?

Jacky Howe (Lib Dem): Vulnerable people are having to choose between eating and heating their homes which is a desperate situation. If you are computer literate you can switch to a more affordable option, but if you're not, it's not so easy. 

Bert Poole (UKIP): We haven't got a market. We need to bring prices down.