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But do scroll back and take a look at how the general election panned out.
The political map for Suffolk remained mainly unchanged except for the Ipswich result. Conservative's Ben Gummer lost his seat by a slim margin to Labour's Sandy Martin.
We'll be back at our keyboards at 08:00 on Monday, but this feed will be updated over the weekend with major Suffolk stories.
Have a great weekend.
The newly-elected MP for Ipswich has said without an overall majority, Theresa May "is going to have to listen".
Labour's Sandy Martin won the Ipswich seat with a slim majority of about 800 votes over the Conservatives' Ben Gummer.
He said he first started to believe he would win after the Tory manifesto came out.
"It was a massive shot in their own foot and annoyed a number of their own supporters," he said.
Mr Martin said becoming a MP was a "sudden change" and he will be "learning on the job".
He said he will also be sure to hold the Tories to account.
"We will be a strong opposition. Without an overall majority Theresa May is going to have to listen," he said.
He said his number one challenge for the town was economic development and helping to make Ipswich thrive.
What do young people think about last night's election results?
University of Suffolk, external students have been giving their reaction to BBC Look East reporter Leigh Milner.
They'll be on the programme on BBC One at 18:30.
While the nation soaks up the news following last night's election, our Weather Watchers have been soaking up the views from around our fine county.
Here is a selection of photos taken by our keen snappers.
Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather
Once the last of any showers have cleared it’ll be a largely dry night, although we could have some thicker cloud in to the west of the region by morning and possibly some outbreaks of rain too.
The winds overnight will turn form a light south-westerly to the south and temperatures falling to around 12C (54F).
The greatest risk of some rain will be in the west of the region on Saturday morning but for many of us it’ll be a dry day with some long sunny spells developing.
The winds will pick up to a moderate south to south-westerly and temperatures reaching around 23C (73F). However, there is the potential for highs of 26C (79F) in some spots.
One of our BBC Radio Suffolk listeners has sent us this photo.
This duck and her ducklings were spotted "living dangerously" and crossing Bell Lane in Kesgrave.
Clive Tricker, from Kesgrave, wrote, said: "She crossed in front of us without as much as a quack, living very dangerously.
"Hope she and all her little ones make it."
Image source, Clive TrickerA woman was threatened with a knife and told to handover cash.
The incident took place between 23:15 and 23:20 on Wednesday at the pathway known as the Yellow Brick Road in Newmarket.
Suffolk Police , externalsaid the woman in her 20s was approached by another woman who had a small knife and threatened to hurt her if she did not handover money.
When she said she did not have any, another woman arrived and the two culprits started walking the victim towards a cash machine on Fred Archer Way. Two men then followed at a distance.
The victim managed to get away and call the police from a nearby business.
Image source, GoogleThe re-elected Conservative Suffolk South MP James Cartlidge has issued a statement after regaining the seat with a majority of 17,749.
"I cannot tell you how truly honoured I am, to receive over 60% of the vote is something I would never have dreamed of when I was first selected to stand here.
"In terms of the national vote, it goes without saying that this is not the result we had hoped for.
"The election was a voluntary choice, and we will be judged by that, but once you take the decision to call the election the final choice rests with the public and we have to now listen to how they have judged us at the ballot box.
"As far as the immediate future is concerned, our priority must be the national interest. That means ensuring that a stable government.
"We are a nation facing a very dark but all too real terrorist threat. We face imminent Brexit negotiations and all the usual decisions to be made in government, day in day out.
"We simply need a government in place to put a hand on the tiller."
Conservative's Jo Churchill, who has retained her Bury St Edmunds seat, has taken to social media to thank her voters for putting their "faith" in her.
She won 36,794 votes compared to Labour candidate Bill Edwards's 18,363.
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Tory Matthew Hancock, who's been re-elected as the MP for West Suffolk, has said Theresa May can provide a "stable government".
His party's leader has been to see the Queen at Buckingham Palace and will try to form a government with an alliance with the Democratic Unionists of Northern Ireland.
She said the Conservatives and DUP will "provide certainty" and work to keep the country "safe and secure".
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Here's the front page of today's Ipswich Star, external - a big story for the town as Conservatives lose out to Labour:
Image source, ArchantThe newly-elected MP for Ipswich has said the Conservatives "don't understand ordinary people".
Read MoreThe newly-elected MP for Ipswich has said the Conservatives "don't understand ordinary people".
Labour's Sandy Martin gained the seat from the Tories' Ben Gummer with a majority of 831.
He said the manifesto put forward by the Conservatives was "bizarre".
Election results 2017: Tories don't 'understand ordinary people'
Here's a reminder of the South Suffolk results:
One of the biggest shocks of the night came in Ipswich where Ben Gummer, the Conservative cabinet minister, lost his seat to Labour's Sandy Martin.
Mr Martin has been taking part in a Look East election special on BBC One.
Asked if he was surprised by his victory, he said: "Over the six weeks I found more and more people were looking at the issues and the Conservative manifesto and they just didn’t like it.
"People were enthusiastic about the Labour Party and the policies have been clear, we haven't been hedging around.
"We said we would abolish tuition fees but it was also the pledge to abolish bedroom tax, raise the minimum wage and build new houses.
"People are fed up with austerity, they can see it's not working, it's not enabling our economy to grow."
A reminder of the results in Suffolk Coastal:
The Suffolk Coastal Conservative MP also said Ipswich had lost a great "champion" in Ben Gummer, who lost his seat to Labour's Sandy Martin.
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A former Labour MP for Ipswich says Sandy Martin's success in taking the seat from the Conservatives is a "fantastic result for Labour in Ipswich".
Chris Mole, who won a by-election in 2001 and then lost his seat to Ben Gummer in 2010, continued: "Sandy was a very popular and assiduous [county] councillor who fought a very positive campaign and got his just rewards."
Mr Mole (pictured with Ben Gummer after his defeat in May 2010) said, as the lone Labour MP in a sea of blue, that Sandy Martin should "knuckle down and make sure he represents the town well, represents individuals well by taking control of the casework and making sure he helps as many people as possible."
Vikki Irwin
BBC Radio Suffolk political reporter
In a sea of blue in Suffolk, right at the centre there is now a splash of red.
The Conservatives held on to six out of the seven seats they had prior to the snap election but Ipswich has returned to the Labour fold. This means cabinet minister and rising Tory star Ben Gummer has lost his seat. A dignified and emotional speech followed, but as one of the architects of the much criticised Tory manifesto, one could argue he was the author of his own downfall.
Suffolk's other marginal seat Waveney turned up another surprise, this time however in favour of the Conservative incumbent Peter Aldous. He extended his majority to more than 9,000 from just under 2,500. Considering Waveney is seen as even more marginal than Ipswich, it was unexpected for the Conservatives to make such gains after such a loss in the county town. This can be explained, however, by the move of the UKIP vote to the Conservatives in Waveney.
Aside from Waveney, only two of the other Conservative-held seats increased their majority -West Suffolk with Matthew Hancock and James Cartridge for South Suffolk.
For Dr Dan Pouter in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, Therese Coffey in Suffolk Coastal and Jo Churchill in Bury St Edmunds held their seats despite a surge in the Labour vote. In fact, the Labour vote increased across the board in all seats except for in Waveney.
So Suffolk wakes up to a new Labour MP for the first time since 2010. Whether this new MP Sandy Martin is on the government benches or the opposition benches is still very much up in the air, as we also wake up to a hung parliament.
A reminder of the results in Central Suffolk & North Ipswich:
