BBC Weather

Most places should see a dry day with some bright or sunny intervals.

Cloud may be thick enough at times to give the odd spot of light rain here and there.

Maximum temperature: 18C (64F).

For the full forecast where you are, visit BBC Weather.

Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk sport

Suffolk won a thrilling encounter against Buckinghamshire yesterday at the golf Women's County Finals being held at Felixstowe Ferry.

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The home side came out 5-4 winners after Amanda Norman managed a birdie on the 17th to clinch it.

Suffolk are currently out on the course against Yorkshire in their third match of the event.

Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk sport

Ipswich Town's under-23s beat Nottingham Forest 5-2 last night.

Striker Ben Morris grabbed two goals, with Shane McGloughlin, James Blanchfield and Ben Folami also on the scoresheet.

The Blues had further good news with defender Adam Webster making his return from an ankle injury.

The 22-year-old hasn't featured for the first-team since the 2-0 win over Luton in August.

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Millicent Fawcett will be the first woman honoured with a statue on Parliament Square, it has been confirmed.

The Suffolk-born equal rights campaigner, who dedicated her life to getting the women's vote, will stand alongside Sir Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela.

Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing has unveiled her design for the statue.

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The model of the piece depicts Fawcett holding a sign, which reads: "Courage calls to courage everywhere."

The words are a tribute to a speech Fawcett gave after the death of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davidson, who ran out in front of the king's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

Ms Wearing said: "I am really delighted that planning has been granted. Now Millicent Fawcett's statue can stand as an equal amongst male statues in Parliament Square."

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It's hoped the statue will be unveiled in February, to mark the centenary of the 1918 Representation Of The People's Act, which gave women over 30 years old the vote.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the statue was "long overdue".

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

The first public exhibition of plans to bypass a stretch of the A12 in east Suffolk will be held today.

There are options for a single road or a dual carriageway around Farnham, Stratford St Andrew, Little Glemham and Marlesford.

The development could cost up to £100m.

Many have welcomed the scheme, but some say the bypass will destroy their businesses.

Image source, Suffolk County Council

Daniel Pont's family have run the Stratford service station for more than 30 years. He said: "If the road were to be built we would certainly have to close.

"The overheads of a business like this are such that without the fuel, the shop can't be sustained.

"If the traffic were to go, so would we."

Mr Pont will be attending the exhibition today at the Riverside Centre to highlight his views.

Two councils in west Suffolk will decide whether to become one new authority, external.

Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury councils put forward the plans back in June.

The councils are now seeking to finalise plans and will consider public response at full council meetings next week.

Previously, constituents raised concerns about the representation of rural areas and smaller towns in a larger authority.

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome back to Local Live across Suffolk.

We'll be here until 18:00 with the latest news, sport, weather and travel for your local area.

The full weather forecast will be with you shortly, but it's a rather cloudy start to the day.

As always, if you want to get in touch you can by email, Facebook, external or Twitter, external.

The team here is heading home in the hopes of enjoying some of the blue sky captured by one of our BBC Weather Watchers in Long Melford earlier on.

If you're just joining us, don't forget you can scroll down and catch up with what's been happening during the day, and as always, any breaking news will still appear here overnight.

Have a good evening - we look forward to your company again from 08:00 on Wednesday.

Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

Staying dry this evening with any cloud dispersing.

There'll be clear spells overnight and it'll become chilly, with mist and fog patches forming.

Lows of 6C (43F).

After early mist clears on Wednesday, it'll become brighter with sunny spells and it'll feel warmer with a top temperature of 18C (64F).

Get the full forecast where you live from BBC Weather.

The front window of a train on the Ipswich to Norwich line was cracked earlier - by a brick or a large stone being thrown at it.

It happened as the London service left Diss. It was able to get to Ipswich where passengers were put on an alternative service.

Greater Anglia says the driver has been left shaken.

Train operator Greater Anglia has responded to the earlier announcement of the two days on which members of the RMT union working for the company are planning to go on strike.

Train service delivery director Richard Dean said: "We are obviously disappointed with the announcement today.

"We’re keen to talk to the RMT to try and resolve the issues involved and to avert industrial action.

"In the event of industrial action going ahead on Tuesday 3 October and Thursday 5 October, we’d like to reassure customers that we have contingency plans in place and intend to run a full service.

"We value our conductors highly and we have guaranteed their jobs until the end of the franchise in October 2025.

"In fact, we will be recruiting additional conductors, as we are replacing all of our trains with brand new trains from 2019, which will enable us to run more services."

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Those are the words of sprint gold medallist Darren Campbell, who has been helping BBC Get Inspired in the search for the Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero for 2017.

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The award recognises the amazing work that volunteers do in grassroots sport and fitness around the UK.

Last year, Marcellus Baz from Nottingham scooped the award for his work as a community boxing coach. Could it be someone from your region this year?

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Greater Anglia will stage two 24-hour strikes in disputes over the role of guards and driver-only trains, on 3 and 5 October.

Mike Cash, RMT general secretary, said: "Greater Anglia have been given every opportunity to give a guarantee on the future role of the guard on their services.

"They have failed to do so and that left us with no alternative but to move to a ballot in the interests of rail safety.

"Our members voted by massive majorities for action but the company have ignored that and have failed to seize the opportunity to give us the very simple assurances on the future of the guards, and the guarantee of a second safety-critical member of staff on current services."

Vikki Irwin
BBC Radio Suffolk political reporter

Drivers using Nacton Road, Felixstowe Road and Bixley Road in Ipswich are being warned they are likely to experience disruption while a £5m upgrade of five key junctions in the east of the town takes place.

The county council says the work is due to get under way next month, but that exact timings will be confirmed and communicated as plans are finalised.

The works are subject to change depending on weather conditions and other factors.

Image source, Suffolk County Council

Two junctions on Nacton Road are being overhauled and there'll also be changes on Bixley Road and Felixstowe Road with the approaches to the St Augstines and Foxhall Road roundabouts being widened.

Felixstowe Road will be made in to two lanes by the Sainsburys supermarket heading into town.

There'll be a public consultation on the junction where Nacton Road meets Landseer Road, as the proposal is to shut off Rands Way, remove the mini-roundabout and replace it with lights.

Paul West, the Conservative county councillor responsible for the town, said it's hoped the work will "improve capacity through junctions, and make things flow more smoothly".

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

After winning more than 60 medals at the Special Olympics Great Britain National Games, external in Sheffield last month, there are calls for more athletes from Suffolk to represent the eastern region in a wider variety of sports.

While the games showcase 20 sports in total, the team from Suffolk only featured in athletics, gymnastics and badminton.

Terry McEntee, chair of Special Olympics Suffolk, says that will be addressed.

"Suffolk more than played its part in terms of the regional success at the games in Sheffield... we are already working towards the next national games in 2021," he said.

"Luckily we have and know a lot of people and organisations and across the county, and we are talking to them in terms of the opportunities they can offer.

"We had been preparing for Sheffield for three or four years... it gave our athletes some great memories and a real sense of achievement."

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Three of Suffolk's Bostik League, external sides compete in the opening round of the Velocity Trophy tonight.

Bury Town visit Harlow, while AFC Sudbury are preparing for the visit of Brightlingsea to the Wardale Williams Stadium.

Leiston are also in action and manager Glenn Driver (pictured) will be hoping his side maintain their unbeaten start to the season away at Maldon and Tiptree.

Thurlow Nunn Premier Division leaders Felixstowe and Walton United play Whitton United at home tonight in the Thurlow Nunn League Challenge Cup, external.

There are home matches for Hadleigh United against Little Oakley, Kirkley and Pakefield against Norwich United, and Framlingham Town who play Needham Market Reserves.

Elsewhere in the competition Haverhill Borough visit Saffron Walden.

Graeme Mac
BBC Radio Suffolk sport

Lowestoft Town, external manager Ady Gallagher has been telling us that he is prepared to make major changes to his squad following Saturday's disappointing FA Cup defeat at the hands of Harlow.

Despite having a one man advantage for a significant amount of the game, the Trawler Boys fell behind and were beaten for the seventh time in 10 competitive matches so far this season.

"If players are going to lack the desire to put on a blue shirt and fight for this club then they are not going to be here long," Gallagher said.

"If I need to change two or three players to liven up our season then I'll be prepared to do that, but I'm not going to watch limp performances week in and week out against teams we should be beating."

"The players need to look at themselves first before they start pointing the finger at anything else and say 'have I done enough?' The reality is they haven't."

"I take comfort he was doing something he loved" when he died, said Josh Gilbert's mother.

The East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) spent more than £14m on hiring private ambulance firms last year up from £6.6m in the year before, according to figures obtained by the Press Association through Freedom of Information requests.

Alan Lofthouse from the union Unison said: "The public shouldn't be concerned about the people attending them, because if they're paramedics, they're registered along with every other paramedic.

"The public purse is going to paying the profits for a company that's providing ambulance services rather than being invested back in better training and better working conditions for staff."

Kevin Brown, director of service delivery at the EEAST, said there are a number of reasons for the increase: "Over the last two years we've recruited 650 additional staff into the trust.

"Clearly many of our new staff needed to be trained, it takes three years to train a paramedic and there are times where those people need to be undertaking that training and that leaves us with capacity gaps.

"This is why last year our spend significantly increased."

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

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The Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable will "reach out" to voters in heavy Brexit supporting regions like ours when he delivers his party conference speech this afternoon.

I'm told the tone will be more respectful and less strident in an attempt to try to win leave supporting voters round to the Lib Dems' argument for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.

He will also talk about issues like education and the NHS to show the Lib Dems are more than a single issue party.

The change in tone follows concerns from party campaigners in our region that the Lib Dems' anger over last year's referendum was driving away leave supporters.

In a magazine article this month Norfolk MP Norman Lamb warned the party that "we have come across to many natural supporters as arrogantly dismissing their views".

Lib Dem sources tell me that Sir Vince has talked to Mr Lamb while preparing his speech.

But there will be no change in the party's anti-Brexit policy so it will be interesting to see if today's speech will really win over any voters in our part of the world.