An antiques shop has been hit by ram-raiders who've then smashed two cabinets inside and stolen jewellery.

Police said a black Jeep-style 4x4 car with a bull bar on the front was used to drive into a side-door of Clare Antiques & Interiors (pictured before the raid) on Malting Lane at about 04:50 today.

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An alarm was triggered and, after the thefts, the car appeared to drive off in the direction of Stoke-by-Clare.

Officers are investigating whether the raid is linked to an attempted burglary in Glemsford at about 04:25 yesterday.

A 4x4 was driven into a store on Hunts Hill, but the raiders did not gain entry.

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Tymal Mills' first-class career is progressing at Sussex County Cricket Club, external...

The Conservative and Labour candidates were asked what they would do about the levels of crime that are causing concern to residents, particularly in Ipswich.

Ben Gummer (C) said: "We have a specific issue in Ipswich at the moment with drug-related violence. It is extremely worrying."

Mr Gummer said he didn't accept comments made by the Police Federation that the service was at breaking point because of cuts. 

"I think the important thing is to measure what the outcomes are, rather than what you're putting in," he said. 

"There is a lot more we can do to make sure police officers can do their work better and we can do that by releasing them to spend more time on the beat. They're still having to spend far too much time doing paperwork. We need to give them far better IT resources. 

"Overall since 2010 official figures show crime has fallen."

Sandy Martin (L) replied saying: "The real fall in crime was during the period from 1997 to 2010. I believe the majority of the drop since 2010 has been the tail-end of that continuing coming-down of crime.

"[Crime in Ipswich] is a real issue.

"I think there's a sense of complacency with this present government. They seem to think because crime has come down we can lose police officers, we can lose community support officers. 

"We need those police officers and community support officers in order to prevent crime rising again.

"Thinking 'oh well, crime has come down, and so therefore we can lose all these officers who actually managed to achieve that fall in crime in the first place' is a very dodgy and dangerous thing." 

Turning to the topic of education:

Ben Gummer (C) said: "In every single year of this Conservative government and the coalition, education spending has gone up. It's now at record levels and I would look to the launch of the manifesto to see what we're going to do. 

"My experience is that most schools across Ipswich do not have a problem. 

"There are some specific schools that have specific funding issues which I'm trying to sort out. 

"I want to see every school in this town good or outstanding."

Sandy Martin (L) said: "We'll put an additional £5.6bn into education because we know that schools and education are the future of our country, we need to invest in our children and young people. 

"As a governor at Copleston [state high school], I know that over a five-year period under the present plans from this government every pupil will receive £300-a-year less than they are currently receiving - that is a serious, serious cut to the education of our children. 

"Under current government plans every school in Ipswich will be worse off per pupil than they are at the moment and that is not good."

Plans for a new river crossing in Ipswich elicited some plain-speaking from the Labour candidate when he and the Conservative candidate were talking about how they would deal with congestion in the town.

They also discussed the merits of a northern by-pass for the county town.

Image source, Ben Gummer

Ben Gummer (Conservative) said: "We need this bridge, it will deliver a reduction in journey times of 27% in the evening peak, but we also do need a new northern route, something I've campaigned for and got the funding to procure the design process... it needs to happen soon. 

"Building roads takes a long time. This bridge will be open within four years and it will deliver reductions in congestion immediately, but we need both, it's not an either/or. I believe we should be ambitious for our town."

Sandy Martin (Labour) said: "We need to have an alternative to the Orwell Bridge for those times when it closes, but it needs to be an alternative that works when the bridge is open as well in order to reduce the bad congestion we have every day. 

"The worst areas are getting from east to west in the north of the town, which is why we think a north Ipswich solution - call it a by-pass, call it a distributor road.

"The last thing we need is another socking-great big bridge over the river, which will drag traffic into the town centre and out again, when the Orwell Bridge is closed. 

"When the [Orwell] bridge is not closed, I can't see the point of the [new] bridge at all."

Mr Martin said he will be campaigning hard for a northern by-pass "rather than a stupid bridge, yes".

Tony Gould (UKIP) said: "We need to get rid of half the traffic from Felixstowe going up the A14 to go west, with a new bridge from Felixstowe to Shotley, and we need a northern by-pass to relieve the traffic going around Ipswich which will then just leave us with local traffic, which still needs to be sorted out in Ipswich."

Adrian HyyRylainen-Trett (Lib Dem) said: "I will be campaigning around making sure the infrastructure with roads and transport is sorted, especially around the northern bypass issue which needs to be carefully managed and considered with environmental concerns as well."

Charlotte Armstrong (Green) said: "We'd be completely committed to trying to reduce the number of cars on the road by improving the park and ride system, by improving public transport, by promoting alternative technologies and by further pedestrianisation of what is a very congested town centre."

David Tabane is the Independent candidate.

BBC Suffolk has been out in Ipswich town centre, giving local people a chance to talk about the issues that will affect how they vote, and giving the candidates for the Ipswich constituency a chance to say how they would deal with those issues.

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The first topic on the agenda has been the NHS.

Sandy Martin, Labour, said: "I'd love to see a cross-party agreement on the future of the NHS, but it would have to be based on maintaining and enhancing the ability of the NHS to actually do its job.

"We need to see the NHS improving and we need to fund it properly if we're going to do that. We know we need more money in the NHS, we know we need more primary care, we know we need more other provisions."

Ben Gummer, Conservative, said: "My work over the next five years, should I be elected, is to do something around primary care, because I think we need more proper facilities for primary care centres, more doctors, and we need to give them facilities to deal with what is changing health needs in our town. 

"There have been problems in primary care in Suffolk, particularly because of recruitment issues but the Riverside Centre, external (on Ipswich's waterfront) has now got seven-day appointments, because we promised people they could have GP appointments seven-days-a-week."

Charlotte Armstrong, Green, said: "We have the NHS Reinstatement Bill ready and prepared. 

"It's there to flourish the NHS with financial resources and with human resources in order to be the top class, quality service that the people of Ipswich and the UK deserve."

Adrian HyyRylainen-Trett, Lib Dem, said: "We want to put in £6bn of funding, £4bn into healthcare, and £2bn into social care and we need to fund it. 

"We know we have to fund it and that's why we're putting 1p on income tax to actually show how we're going to do that, not just saying it but actually doing something."

Tony Gould, UKIP, said: "We need to have a fundamental discussion on resolving the NHS. 

"The demand on the NHS is going up disproportionately and we cannot just do it with the existing arrangement. We need a radical rethink on the NHS."

David Tabane is standing as an Independent candidate. We have contacted him asking for his views and will bring you his comments when we get them.

Andrew Turner
BBC Radio Norfolk

It will be all hands to the pump later, when the revolving cap is lifted on to the historic windpump at Horsey, external in Norfolk...

A temporary lid has been in place since the cap was taken off a year ago to be rebuilt by Tim Whiting, external in Saxmundham in Suffolk.

Two years before that, the sails came off. It's part of a major restoration by the National Trust.

John Sizer, the Trust's general manager for this area, tells me the new cap will turn to the wind. 

Later this summer, when the sails go back on, they will also turn - making this a fully restored working windpump.

The new cap is boat-shaped (pictured below), which is particular to the Broads. 

When the old one was stripped back to its original frame, wood was discovered from probably three different previous caps - some of it being up to 300 years old.

Image source, Alex Green

Mr Sizer says the project is costing about £305,000 - the first phase £245,000 and adding shutters to the sails will be another £60,000.

Image source, Justin Minns

The BBC News bus is in Ipswich...

A junior doctor at Ipswich Hospital says he thinks one vote winner would be if someone was to really make a commitment to looking at making efficiency-savings in the central administration departments of the NHS.

Dr Justin Ang added: "Everyone locally works very hard, everyone at the hospital works incredibly hard.

"We're talking about efficiency savings and maybe you could look centrally as well.

"Along with that, investment in the NHS and detailing where that investment's going to go."

Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live

It's a big day for one of our historic wind pumps.

Last year, the National Trust began an ambitious restoration project at Horsey Windpump, external (pictured below), which will see the sails replaced and the pump put back to full working order.

Image source, Justin Minns

In March 2016, the cap was removed (pictured above), and shipped to millwright Tim Whiting's workshop in Saxmundham, Suffolk where he rebuilt it, using the same tools and techniques used when the windpump was built more than 100 years ago. 

Later today, a 100-tonne capacity crane -  under Tim's careful supervision - will lift the newly constructed cap and brake wheel - weighing 15 tonnes in total - into place in one go.   

Image source, Justin Minns

A man who lost both his legs in a hit-and-run crash in Newmarket less than a year ago, completed a massive challenge yesterday.

Image source, John Fairhall

Shaun Whiter, 28, was a keen footballer who had played for Soham Town and was due to begin training with Newmarket Town... and he working as an estate agent in Stansted Mountfitchet at the time of the crash.

He's now pedalled 150 miles (240km) by hand, to raise money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance, external, as part of the Ipswich Town FC Tour of Suffolk, external.

He told us: "I went to meet them [the EAAA] the other day, and found out every time they take off it costs £2,500, so that was the goal, to raise over £2,500 so that it could save some else's life, not just mine."

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Expect a few extra minutes added to your journey if you're due to head on the A14 at Rowley Mile.

One lane is currently closed westbound due to a crash.

A tribunal has ruled a head teacher, sacked after picking up a pupil and removing her from a classroom at a school in Stowmarket, was unfairly dismissed.

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David Dee, who was head teacher at Cedars Park primary school, external, was responding to a request from a student teacher and called the child out of the classroom, but when she refused to leave he lifted her up and carried her outside. 

A police investigation followed, but the head teacher was cleared of a common assault charge by magistrates in September 2014, who ruled the force he'd used had been reasonable. 

Despite his acquittal, he was sacked in June 2015 after school governors found him guilty of gross misconduct. 

The tribunal in Bury St Edmunds heard from witnesses to the incident who said they couldn't believe what they were seeing. 

However it ruled that Mr Dee's dismissal was both "procedurally unfair" and breached his employment contract.

The ruling opens the way for Mr Dee to seek compensation from Suffolk County Council.  

Brenner Woolley
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Winger Joe Francis has left Ryman Premier Division, external club Leiston, external after his contract expired.

Image source, Leiston FC

The 30-year-old former Lowestoft Town, external player joined the Blues four years ago and made 136 league appearances in that time, scoring 42 goals.

"My two boys are the main reason I am leaving Leiston and the Ryman League as the travelling is too much," Francis told the club website.

"I have loved my time at Leiston FC and I have nothing but the utmost respect for everyone involved at the club. Good luck to everyone."

With all the general election 2017 candidates' nominations papers in, we've collected together links to where you can find full information from the returning officers on who is standing for election in the seven Suffolk constituencies:  

• Bury St Edmunds, external
• Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, external
• Ipswich, external
• South Suffolk, external
• Suffolk Coastal, external
• Waveney, external
• West Suffolk, external

After quite a sticky start to the day, humid weather will stay with us across the BBC Eastern Region, and we'll have some bright spells as well.

There may be one or two spots of rain first thing, but further east, there'll be some brighter weather, and you might even see some spells of sunshine. 

A dry day, and if the sun comes out, temperatures could go even higher than the predicted 23C (73F).

You may get a bit of rain further west first thing this evening, that will move across the region during the course of the night.

Watch my full forecast here:

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

We're up and running, poised to bring you regular updates of what's happening across the county.

The BBC News bus is here, on day one of a three-day visit to Suffolk, and we'll be hearing from the candidates for the Ipswich constituency, and asking local people about what they want from their next MP.

There have been delays for rail passengers travelling from Ipswich through Colchester this morning, but Greater Anglia say the disruption should be over by 08:30.

Kate Kinsella's been checking the weather prospects for us, we'll hear from her next.

Freda Smith had to leave teacher training college before World War Two when her money ran out.

Don't get left outside on polling day. Here are details of what you need and where you need to go to register for the general election on 8 June:  

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

That's it for Monday's regular updates, but any breaking news will still appear here overnight.

Scroll down to see what's been happening across the county, and don't forget, you can join in with your comments on the stories we've been covering, or send us your photographs, by clicking on the "Get involved" link at the top of this page.

We had to take a second look at this photograph from BBC Weather Watcher "Juniperbeddy", as at first glance, we thought there was snow in the foreground but, phew, it's just blossom!

Have a great evening.

Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather

It'll be a largely dry night across the BBC East region but there'll also be some outbreaks of light rain and drizzle in places.

It’ll be very mild and humid with temperatures in some parts no lower than 15C (59F).

Tuesday is likely to be a rather cloudy, especially in the west, with further outbreaks of showery rain. 

The best of any brightness is likely in the east of the region. 

There’ll be a light to moderate south to south-westerly wind and temperatures could reach as high as 22C (72F).

Get the full forecast where you are from BBC Weather.

A harbourmaster whose great uncle was killed when his ship was torpedoed in World War One has thanked the scuba divers who launched a search to find out more about the story behind the tragedy.

The expedition, which was led by Dave Lock, (pictured right), from the Ipswich-based British Sub Aqua Club iDive, external, marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the light cruiser HMS Pathfinder, external off the coast of Berwickshire in Scotland.

Image source, BSAC

Robert Smith, harbourmaster at Wells-next-the-Sea, had been researching his family history and trying to find a way of honouring his relative, when he heard about the expedition: "Robert Joshua Smith was the older brother of my grandfather, Sidney Smith.

"He died when HMS Pathfinder became the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo launched from a submarine on September 5 1914, just weeks after the outbreak of World War One."

Dave Lock said: "We were the first group of civilian divers to receive special permission from the Admiralty to raise a flag on the wreck.

"Our group included 10 experienced divers from various BSAC clubs in the UK and there were some relatives of those who died with us on the boat."

Image source, BSCA

Image source, BSAC

Image source, BSAC