Summary

  • Updates for Friday, 15 September 2017

  • Sex attack care home 'subject to further checks'

  • Ed Sheeran misses out on Mercury Prize

  • Woman on a mission to save hedgehogs

  • New funding formula to benefit rural schools, says MP

  1. Ipswich Town 2-0 Bolton Wandererspublished at 17:27 British Summer Time 16 September 2017

    Ipswich extend bottom club Bolton's winless Championship run to eight games with victory at Portman Road.

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  2. That's all from Local Livepublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Our news updates have now come to an end for the day and for the week, and it's time for us to head off home.

    Many thanks for your company - we hope you've enjoyed reading the stories we've brought you.

    Have a great weekend and we'll be back at 08:00 on Monday.

  3. The weekend weather outlookpublished at 17:32 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Julie Reinger
    BBC Look East weather

    Any rain should clear tonight, with showers becoming confined to the Norfolk coast.

    It'll be mostly dry by morning with clear spells and a few fog patches.

    With temperatures falling as low as 4C (39F) there could be a touch of grass frost in rural areas.

    Weather graphic for 06:00 Saturday

    Tomorrow will be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers, which could turn heavy with hail and thunder.

    Top temperature of 15C (59F).

    Sunday will start cold, with a touch of frost in rural areas. Any mist and fog patches will clear to leave mainly dry conditions with sunny spells.

    There's a small chance of an isolated shower, which could be heavy and thundery.

    BBC Weather has more.

  4. 'Lost' £1m lotto ticket found in walletpublished at 17:19 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Martin Crighton read about a "missing millionaire" in his area before realising it was him.

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  5. Metal detector PC must repay £15,000published at 17:05 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    PC David Cockle, who sold 10 gold coins for £15,000, is given six months to repay the money in full.

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  6. McCarthy: Blues losing streak is 'no wobble'published at 16:45 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Graeme Mac
    BBC Radio Suffolk sport

    Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy accepts he needs something of a reaction from his players tomorrow as they prepare to face Bolton at Portman Road.

    Mick McCarthy

    After beginning the season with five straight wins in all competitions, the Blues have now lost three in a row, including successive league games.

    "It's not a wobble," McCarthy said at today's pre-match press conference. "We would have all taken 12 points from the opening six league games.

    "Fulham were outstanding and better than us, and there was nothing in the QPR match up until the decision before half time."

    "If we win on Saturday - and let's hope we do, because I think the fans need to see that along with a good performance - it will still be a good start."

  7. McCarthy may keep Blues loanee waitingpublished at 16:16 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Graeme Mac
    BBC Radio Suffolk sport

    He scored a wonder goal for Ipswich Town last week, but Blues boss Mick McCarthy has been telling us today that Bersant Celina is far from being guaranteed a starting berth for tomorrow's match with Bolton.

    Bersant CelinaImage source, itfc.co.uk

    Denying the Manchester City loanee a full Championship debut would not be the most popular decision with many Town fans, but the manager says the 21-year-old would only have himself to blame.

    "I expected him to play 90 minutes for the Under-23s on Monday, but he didn't train until Thursday," McCarthy revealed at this afternoon's pre-match press conference. "He had a dead leg."

    "Coming on on Satuday and doing what he did enhances his chances, but being injured all week hinders them."

    You will be able to hear if Bersant Celina does make his full Championship debut for Ipswich Town during Matchday on BBC Radio Suffolk - 103.9, 104.6, 95.5 and 95.9FM - from 14:00 tomorrow.

  8. Highways England warns drivers of exit slip road closurepublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

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  9. Music of my youthpublished at 15:23 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Alex Pope
    BBC Local Live

    We should all have memories of the music we listened to as a child.

    Sadly mine is playing Wham! to annoy my sister (she liked Duran Duran) and disappearing to my room on a Sunday afternoon to listen to the charts.

    So memories, hopefully better than these, are being sought for a new National Lottery project.

    Funding of more than £60,000 has been awarded to the charity Babylon Arts to save Baby Boomers' memories of the music they listened to as teenagers in the 1960s, '70s and '80s.

    It will focus on March, Wisbech, Mildenhall and Brandon for their project "Talkin' bout my generation: Musical memories of the Fens and Brecks Baby Boomers".

    It will lead to a documentary being created and a touring exhibition.

    Babylon ARTS group dressed up from different decadesImage source, Babylon ARTS

    Meanwhile, £10,000 has been given to the Littleport Field Theatre Group to tell the story of Littleport through the memories of its residents.

  10. Rugby union: Bury hoping to build on Broadstreet successpublished at 15:09 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Brenner Woolley
    BBC Radio Suffolk sport

    Bury St Edmunds, external have a good chance of securing consecutive victories in National League Two South, external tomorrow.

    The Haberden, Bury St Edmunds

    The Wolfpack, who got off the mark with a 20-16 win at Broadstreet last weekend, host bottom side Old Redcliffians.

    The Bristol-based club has found the going tough after last season's promotion, with two defeats from their two games so far and a points difference of minus 86.

  11. Bomb disposal experts deal with hand grenade at Ipswich Portpublished at 15:06 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    A controlled explosion has been carried out on a corroded hand grenade dredged up at the Port of Ipswich.

    As the Ipswich Star has reported, external, police were called at about 09:00 to the West Bank Terminal off Wherstead Road, where the grenade had been dredged up.

    Bomb disposal experts from Colchester Garrison carried out a controlled explosion just before 11:00.

  12. Materials being gathered to rebuild hurricane-hit homespublished at 14:04 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    A woman from Elmswell, who has family in Barbuda, is gathering wood and tools to send to the Caribbean island after the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.

    Alice Bolton's cousins Asha and Afiya, who went to school in Thurston, were found safe and unharmed on the island. They're now living on neighbouring Antigua.

    Alice is filling two containers with materials, tools, ladders, wheelbarrows and buckets to send to Barbuda to help people rebuild their homes.

    Alice Bolton with some of the donated tools

    She's sourced sheet wood from a workshop in York, several hundred sheets of plywood and lengths of constructional timber, as well as receiving donations from people of old hand tools, saws and tool boxes.

    An open container, with sheets of plywood
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    It's really important to get it over there to help people start fixing things. I don't know if it will help rebuild people's houses to hurricane standards, but I think it will definitely help people start repairing roofs of buildings that have been lost."

    Alice Bolton

  13. Lowestoft boss targeting extended FA Cup runpublished at 13:34 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Brenner Woolley
    BBC Radio Suffolk sport

    Four Suffolk clubs are in action in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup, external tomorrow afternoon.

    FA CupImage source, Getty Images

    Leiston, external host Crowborough Athletic, Needham Market, external face Chesham, AFC Sudbury, external play Chipstead while Lowestoft Town, external take on Harlow.

    "A long run in the FA Cup would be a fantastic boost to us financially," said Lowestoft boss Ady Gallagher.

    "Everyone's aim is to pick up a league club in the first round, because it would be a great day and creates a bit of history for your club."

  14. The latest weather forecastpublished at 13:27 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    It will be a cloudy afternoon with heavy showers, with the chance of hail and thunder.

    Feeling chilly, with a top temperature of 15C (59F).

    Check out these latest autumn snaps by our Weather Watchers...

    Birds lined up on telegraph wires
    Red berries on a bush, and other trees
    A tree in sunlight by water
  15. 'Rural schools to benefit from new funding formula', says MPpublished at 11:16 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    As we reported yesterday, the government has announced extra funding for schools.

    Suffolk is one of the areas to get the most benefit from a change in the way money is given, and will see an increase of 4.5% in funding.

    Some areas are only getting around 1%.

    Dan Poulter, the Central Suffolk MP, is one of those who's been campaigning for a change in the funding formula and says he's pleased there's been progress.

    Dan Poulter MP
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    Historically the old funding formula was a disadvantage to schools in predominantly rural counties and now we're going to have a new formula put in place, so every school is going to see an increase in the amount of money it gets to spend on its pupils, and in particular schools in rural areas are going to benefit."

    Dan Poulter MP, (Con) Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

  16. 'My mission to boost hedgehog numbers'published at 10:03 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Ipswich's hedgehog officer has been in the role, which attracted global interest, for a year.

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  17. Ed Sheeran misses out on Mercury Prizepublished at 09:52 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Our commiserations to Ed Sheeran - he was beaten to the Mercury Prize by singer-songwriter Sampha.

    Ed, from Framlingham, was nominated for his record-breaking third album Divide.

    It was his first appearance on the shortlist and comes in a record-breaking year for the 26-year-old, which has seen him dominate the UK charts and headline Glastonbury.

    Ed Sheeran at Glastonbury

    Soul singer Sampha dedicated the £25,000 prize to his parents, saying the album - Process - was hugely emotional for him, and composed as his mother began to lose her battle with cancer.

    Sampha on stage, winning the Mercury PrizeImage source, PA
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    Writing helped me through my day-to-day life... I was going through some hard times of looking after my mother and music was like a cathartic thing to me, not let the world get on top of me, it was an important thing."

    Sampha

  18. Sex attack care home 'subject to further checks'published at 09:51 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    The chair of Suffolk Safeguarding Adults Board says an east Suffolk care home where an elderly woman was raped by a care worker will now be subject to further checks.

    Yesterday, 29-year-old Ipswich man Radu Mut was jailed for the sex attack on a woman in her 70s.

    Sue Hadley said she'd spoken to the local authority, which assured her it was following up the incident with the home.

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    They're working with the managers of the care home to help them review their processes and procedures and to give them all possible advice and support, to make sure that their recruitment practises and their supervisory practises are as good as they can be."

    Sue Hadley, Chair, Suffolk Safeguarding Adults Board

  19. Cornard wheelchair user appalled at police response to vandalism incidentpublished at 09:43 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Suffolk Free Press

    The Suffolk Free Press, external has the story of a Great Cornard wheelchair user whose car was vandalised - Kevin O'Connell is "deeply disappointed" by the police response.

    Wheelchair user Kevin O'ConnellImage source, Suffolk Free Press
  20. Man robbed and punched in Metfieldpublished at 09:42 British Summer Time 15 September 2017

    Diss Express

    The Diss Express, external today: A motorist was punched and struck with an object by two suspects before being robbed in Metfield.

    Front page of Diss ExpressImage source, Diss Express