Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather

A dry night, with long clear spells and a few mist patches across the BBC East region.

The winds will eventually become light north westerly.

A minimum temperature of 8C (46F) - although in some places it could remain in double figures.

Tomorrow will be fine and dry with sunny spells.

Feeling slightly cooler, with a mainly light west to north westerly wind, and sea breezes around the coast.

Maximum temperature: 22C (72F).

BBC Weather has a more local forecast for where you are.

Cleah Hetherington
BBC Radio Suffolk

A donation has been made to help restore a memorial sculpture in an Ipswich park which has been damaged by vandals.

The tree of remembrance in Holywells Park is for families who've lost a baby and features individual brass leaves engraved with the baby's name and date of birth. It sits in a garden created two years ago by volunteers from the National Citizenship Programme.

The donation of £200 was made by the University of the First Age, external - spokesperson Sophie Steel says the money will go towards the restoration, and the staff's time supporting the young people who'll be coming back to assist: "It's important for the young people to come back and see it restored to its former glory.

"They worked so hard on it in the first instance."

The Marine Management Organisation, external has given permission for the whale, which washed up on the beach at Felixstowe on Saturday, to be removed.

Suffolk Coastal Norse, external says: "Now we have authorisation, removal of the whale is now being co-ordinated for Wednesday, with specialist equipment being brought in to complete the removal.

"Removal will be dependent on tide times and the situation will continue to be assessed on an on-going basis."

As we mentioned earlier, Suffolk Coastal has no responsibility for the whale that was found on a mudbank on the river Ore near Orford, because of its location on mudflats below the high tide line.

A pedestrian has been taken to hospital with what are believed to be serious injuries, after being hit by an HGV on the A47 just north of Rackham's Corner in Lowestoft.

Police say they were called shortly before 15:00 to reports of the collision, which took place on the northbound carriageway near to the Lound junction.

The woman is being treated in the James Paget Hospital.

The northbound carriageway remains closed, but the southbound carriageway is open.

Diversions are in place.

We've just heard the removal of the whale that washed up on the beach in Felixstowe will take place on Wednesday.

More details shortly.

TWTD.co.uk

Departing Blues defender Christophe Berra has been named, external in the Scotland squad for their World Cup qualifier against England at Hampden Park on Saturday, 10 June.

A video message, recorded by The Duchess of Cambridge has been released to mark the beginning of Children's Hospice Week.

In the message, Kate, who's president of East Anglia's Children's Hospices, external (EACH), asks us to celebrate the extraordinary children’s palliative care and hospice services that are there for the UK’s 49,000 children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

More than 360 of those are supported by EACH at its hospices in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (which also serves children in north Essex).

Kate Scotter
BBC News

Rob Deaville, from the Zoological Society of London, has just taken a chunk of skin and blubber from the whale lying in the sea off the coast at Felixstowe:

Now he's photographing it:

He says the samples were not taken to reveal a cause of death, but for analysis in terms of whale population.

He added that it's too decomposed to do a post-mortem examination, and confirmed that it was struck by a ship.

Kate Scotter
BBC News

Rob Deaville from the Z, externaloological Society of London says another dead whale, provisionally thought to be a sperm whale, is floating off the Suffolk coast.

He says the one here at Felixstowe is thought to have been dead for some time.

Rob said it's the wrong colour to be a minke and it's almost certainly a fin whale.

There's a large injury he thinks was caused by a ship. It's likely to have been struck by a vessel some time ago, perhaps hundreds of miles away.

The whale at Orford is a minke, and it's not a calf.

"Three very different species, and in my opinion, they're not linked," he said.

"It's a series of coincidental events.

"We see hundreds of strandings a year, it just happens that these three are in close proximity.

"The minke whale is going to be tricky to get to."

The minke is on mud flats on the tidal River Ore estuary near the RSPB's Havergate Island reserve.

Mr Deaville was our guide to carrying out necropsies (the whale equivalent of a post-mortem examination) in a BBC feature published in December.

Kate Scotter
BBC News

We've just been told another whale, provisionally thought to be a sperm whale, has been stranded off the Suffolk coast.

More details to follow.

Kate Scotter
BBC News

Rob Deaville from the UK Cetaceans Strandings Investigation Programme, has arrived here at Felixstowe to examine the whale that washed up on the beach on Saturday.

He's donned his wellies and waterproofs to head in to the water to inspect the whale, and he's making an incision:

The Duchess of Cambridge has recorded a message to mark the beginning of Children's Hospice Week.

Kate, who's president of East Anglia's Children's Hospices, external (EACH), recorded the message on a visit to meet families at the hospice in Quidenham in Norfolk in January.

Image source, EACH

In it she speaks of the difference that children's hospice and palliative care services can make.

Image source, EACH

EACH currently supports more than 360 children and young people with a life-threatening condition in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and North Essex.

We've asked Suffolk Coastal District Council, which is involved in the removal of the whale from the beach at Felixstowe, if they're also involved in getting rid of the dead whale on the River Ore estuary, near Orford.

A spokeswoman told us: "The juvenile whale at Orford is being left in the estuary because of its location - it doesn’t fall under the council’s responsibility.

"Whilst in the sea or estuary the coastguard would normally deal with this, we always look to work with other agencies, but it is only when on or above the high tide mark that if falls to SCDC to take responsibility."

We've been talking about how testing will be carried out on the dead whale which washed up on the beach at Felixstowe before a decision is made on how the mammal can be disposed of.

Following the discovery of a fin whale at Holkham in Norfolk last year, one of our colleagues wrote an in-depth article on how whale post-mortem examinations, or necropsies, external to use the correct term, are carried out.

Check it out, but we suggest you don't read it while you're eating...

Image source, CSIP-ZSL

Kate Scotter
BBC News

HM Coastguard has just told me the whale that's been washed up here on the beach at Felixstowe is not going to be moved today.

It'll be moved on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The coastguards are staying on the scene, although they say they don't know how likely it is that any more whales will be washed up.

One is up a river estuary, the other is awaiting removal from a beach.

The organisation that will ultimately remove the dead whale from the beach at Felixstowe says it's "waiting for authorisation" for its removal.

A spokeswoman for Suffolk Coastal Norse, external, a partner of Suffolk Coastal Council, said: "[We are] currently waiting for authorisation from the Marine Management Organisation, external for the removal of the whale.

"The UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme are also attending site today, to take samples for testing, before the removal of the whale can then be co-ordinated by Norse."

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

Although the smell here at Felixstowe from the whale that washed up on the beach on Saturday is becoming stronger as the temperature rises, it hasn't deterred people from coming along to have a look:

Laurence Cawley
BBC News

From school groups to pensioners, the main visitor attraction in Felixstowe this morning has undoubtedly been the large dead whale bobbing gently to the waves on the beach.

The smell is becoming increasingly ripe as the late May sun warms the carcass.

The odour has not quelled the visitors.

I have even seen some people enjoying a brunch picnic not too far away!

The key question now is when will it be removed. The coastguard tells me they are merely there to protect the carcass. The local council will be the ones who take it away.

But removal is expected to take place only after zoological experts from London take samples away to see what might have caused the stranding.

From what I have been able to tell, this whale appears to be a victim of a collision with a ship. It has a large fresh gash in its side and its movement in the water suggests a broken spine.

The whale's injuries may dictate how the council collects the body from the beach - whether they try and remove it one piece or cut it down into smaller pieces.

In the meantime, the wait continues.

The best guess for the whale's removal is now during the early afternoon.

The Suffolk co-ordinator of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, external says the whale found on the beach at Felixstowe appears to have been the victim of "a ship strike".

Jo Collins added: "We're not convinced it's a minke whale, but possibly a fin [whale].

"They wouldn't be expected to be in this area really, but we do get minkes quite often.

"As long as the minke whales are out at sea there's no reason for any concern."