BBC Suffolk's political reporter Vikki Irwin is with the new MP for Ipswich, Labour's Sandy Martin, as he visits his new place of work for the first time:

The leader of Suffolk County Council, external has set out what he anticipates will happen once the deal to buy a disused department store and build a new school has been agreed.

The authority, working jointly with Ipswich Borough Council, has revealed plans to buy the site of the former Co-op on Carr Street in Ipswich town centre.

Colin Noble, Conservative leader of the county council, said: "We purchase the site, money changes hands, and then the Active Learning Trust, external comes in and opens a brand new primary school, hopefully in 2019.

"All the other primary schools in the area are close or full to capacity and one of the jobs of the county council all the time is to think about the number of children coming through who want to go to a primary school, think about the numbers that we've got, could we expand on the existing sites? How do we do that? Part of that is we build new primary schools."

The proposed purchase of the site will be discussed by the borough council's executive committee on 19 June.

Ipswich Star

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Town have announced a cut, external in matchday prices ahead of the 2017/18 campaign with the cheapest adult seat down to £25 from last season’s £27.50.

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So how much have Ipswich Town, external matchday tickets actually been reduced?

We've compared prices from the 2016/17 season, to the 2017/18 season, in a number of age groups:

• Under 12: Was £8.50 - now £3.00 (in the family area)
• 16-year-old: Was £11.50 - now £8.00
• Adult: Was £27.50 - now £25.00

The £2.50 increase for adult tickets purchased on the day, and the £1 increase for juniors has been scrapped.

Season tickets, which the club says still remain the best value for money, will cost adults from £18.40 per game.

Matchday tickets for all ages have been reduced by Ipswich Town Football Club, external for the 2017/18 season.

The club says adults will save up to £5 compared to last year, with youngsters saving as much as £6.50 when they buy a ticket on a game-by-game basis.

It's the first time owner Marcus Evans has agreed to reduce the price of matchday tickets since he arrived at the club.

However, they say that buying a season ticket still remains the best value for money at Portman Road.

It's a bright start in places, although there is some cloud in parts of the BBC East region.

The forecast though is generally dry and warm with some sunny spells although the further west and north you are, the risk increases of a spot of rain this morning.

Further south, more in the way of sunshine, although there may still be a light shower this afternoon.

Top temperature: 21C (70F).

Watch my full regional forecast here:

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

The sun is shining outside our Ipswich newsroom, I hope it's shining on you too.

If you're familiar with the town, you may have been wondering what the future holds for the former Co-op department store in Carr Street - well that's all been revealed, with plans for a school on the site being announced overnight.

In a separate announcement, Ipswich Town have said they're reducing the price of matchday tickets for the first time since Marcus Evans took over at Portman Road.

If you can remember your first day at "big" school you may want to spare a thought for the county town's new MP, who's at Westminster today. Perhaps it's not quite so bad when you're grown up?.

So lots to talk about, we'd love you to join in too, via the "Get involved" link at the top of this page.

Weather prospects up next from Kate Kinsella.

Part of a former Co-op department store could be sold to the borough council.

Philippa Taylor
BBC Local Live

We're calling it a day here, but we'll be back in the morning, resuming live updates from 08:00.

During the day we've heard from the trial of a group of men charged in connection with an attack which left a Mildenhall man with permanent brain damage, found out why a record attempt by a disabled sailor came to an end off the coast at Lowestoft, and heard from the county's newest MP on the subject of the river crossings in Ipswich.

Have a great evening, we look forward to your company in the morning.

We wonder what tomorrow will bring...

One voter we spoke to says the Prime Minister has "bitten off more than she can chew".

Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather

It'll be a dry night, with clear spells and an odd mist or fog patch across the BBC East region.

For many of us temperatures remaining in double figures, but we can’t rule out 8-9C, (46-48F) in some spots.

Tuesday will be largely fine and dry with some decent sunny spells.

We may just get an odd shower in the north of the region.

Temperatures climbing to around 22C (72F), with light winds and local sea breezes.

Get the full forecast where you are from BBC Weather.

The 72-year-old from Suffolk died following the accident on the B852 between Dores and Inverfarigaig.

A yachtsman from the Isle of Wight, who was hoping to become, external the first disabled sailor to circumnavigate the British Isles single-handed and non-stop, was taken to the James Paget Hospital late last night with a suspected broken arm, after he got into difficulties 27 miles (43km) south-east of Lowestoft harbour.

Keith White had set off from Cowes on 12 May on the "Marathon of Guernsey", which developed a ripped mainsail and lost electrics and communications after experiencing "significant waves and heavy swells".

A wind farm crew transfer vessel was passing the yacht and went to see if Mr White, who lost the use of his left arm in a motorway accident in 1991, was okay.

It remained on the scene until the Lowestoft lifeboat arrived and towed the yacht into Hamilton Dock.

Coastguards secured the vessel, and Mr White was taken to hospital to be assessed.

We've been looking at the pledge by the new Ipswich MP, Labour's Sandy Martin, to see if he can get the money that's been allocated to the new river crossings in the town spent towards a northern by-pass instead.

Colin Noble, the Conservative leader of Suffolk County Council, has responded, saying the council "strongly supports the need for the Upper Orwell Crossings project to go ahead and with its partners is driving forward the delivery of these bridges".

"This £96.7m investment into Ipswich will have a transformative impact on Ipswich’s economy and signals our ambitions for the town," he said.

Mr Noble continued: "Delivery of the Upper Orwell Crossings is one of the 21 commitments made by the Ipswich Vision Board, external, a partnership between the public and private sector in Ipswich, chaired by Mark Pendlington, chair of New Anglia LEP.

"This investment will significantly develop the opportunities for high tech companies to locate and grow in Ipswich, within a new high-technology hub linked to the University of Suffolk.

"The elements needed for the delivery of the Upper Orwell Crossings are now in place, and I strongly believe should not be jeopardised.

"The county council and its partners are committed to developing a scheme to improve road capacity in the north of the town.

"This is to support housing development in the wider Ipswich area.

"I support Ipswich’s new MP Sandy Martin in his call for funding for the development and delivery of a Northern relief road scheme, but development of this scheme cannot be seen as being an alternative to the Upper Orwell Crossings.”

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk

I've been in Aldeburgh this afternoon, where Suffolk's James Spankie, external has been performing on the "Bandstand on the Beach" as part of this year's Aldeburgh Festival, external.

My daughter Matilda is now a big James Spankie fan, and wasn't too bothered that the ice-cream stall had run out of her favourite strawberry:

Image source, Graeme McLoughlin

Weather permitting, I'll be live at the bandstand for BBC Suffolk on Saturday between 12:00 and 15:00 showcasing a couple of artists we champion with BBC Introducing in Suffolk - Amethysts and Phil Jackson, external.

A 1950s coach, restored by an enthusiast in south Norfolk, is finally on her way home to the Shetland Islands.

For years, the Bedford OB was a lifeline to hundreds of islanders, taking children to school, fishermen to their boats, even used for Sunday School picnics.

After many years of service and many miles, the coach ended up in Norfolk for retirement, and Nick Taylor (pictured right) spent six years lovingly restoring her at his home in Weybread in Suffolk - before gifting the old lady back to the island from whence she came.

It will take 12 days for the vintage bus to travel the 1,200 miles - and behind the wheel is the coach's original driver, 73-year-old John Watt (pictured left).

Before she sets off, there was time for a blessing from the Bishop of Norwich. It was a first for the Right Reverend Graham James - he'd previously blessed an ambulance and its passengers, but not a bus and crew.

With no sat navs, but an old-fashioned map (remember them?), the first leg of the journey takes the crew 100 miles from Norwich, via Aylsham, Hunstanton, King's Lynn, and Newark to Gainsborough where they'll spend their first night.

If you see her on her journey of a lifetime, give her a wave!

The owner of a pet shop in Framlingham, where thieves stole money from five charity collection boxes over the weekend, says she feels "upset and cross".

Image source, Toby's Pets

The owner of Toby's Pet Shop, external, Sarah Jennings, said: "They broke in through the window, they came back about an hour after they originally broke in with tools to take the handle off the window, broke in and they took the collection boxes out in one of our display boxes.

"They tipped [the contents] out on the floor and they tipped the collection boxes out in that, because they were too heavy for them to carry altogether.

"It's other people's hard-earned money they've chosen to give to charity for very good reasons.

"I don't understand how people would think this was in any way acceptable at all."

The charity boxes were raising funds for the East Anglia's Children's Hospices, external, the East Anglian Air Ambulance, external, Laxfield Pre-School, external, Suffolk Animal Rescue, external and Marie Curie, external.

About My Area

Sudbury travelled to Frinton, external on Saturday still riding high at the top of the EAPL table and looking to continue their run of seven consecutive wins in the league.

Nicola Urquhart, whose son Corrie Mckeague has been missing since he disappeared on a night out in Bury St Edmunds in September, has responded to the discovery of a body in Brandon yesterday.

Writing on the Find Corrie Facebook page, external, Nicola (pictured on a previous occasion) says: "It is with great sadness I find myself writing another message like this again.

"I do not know the details, only that the person found yesterday in Brandon woods is not Corrie.

"My thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies are with their family and loved ones x."

Police say they're not treating the discovery of the body in Brandon as suspicious.