Joe Garner's clever finish and an Adam Matthews own goal condemn Sunderland to a fourth defeat in five games at home to Ipswich.

A judge says Sarah Hand was "incapable" of driving "because of the quantity of alcohol in her body".

Police have arrested a man after a suspect package was left in Barclays Bank in Sudbury on Wednesday.

Officers were called to the Market Hill branch at about 13:10, although it turned out the package, which was left in a rucksack, was not dangerous.

A 41-year-old from Sudbury has been arrested on suspicion of placing an article with intent and communication of false information and he is being questioned in Bury St Edmunds.

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A car driver's arrival caused a mugger to throw away the handbag he had just stolen from a woman, in her 70s, in Haverhill.

The victim was pushed and had her bag snatched on Mill Road at about 12:20 on Wednesday.

As the mugger was running off, a man in a car stopped and began reversing, at which point the suspect threw the bag into an alleyway before running down Mill Road into the area of a disused warehouse and footpath.

Suffolk Police says the mugger is described as white, over 40, of heavy build and wearing a green parka-style jacket with a hood which has light-coloured fur trim.

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Babergh leader John Ward says he believes the public will vote in favour of plans to combine Babergh and Mid Suffolk councils into one authority, once they have seen the evidence of the proposal’s benefits.

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Blues legends George Burley and Roger Osborne and former Olympian Professor Bill Tancred MBE will be helping to launch new sporting memories groups in the county’s libraries next week.

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A row over the suspension of work on a town plan for Hadleigh has resulted in the deputy mayor resigning.

The culture secretary becomes the first MP to launch his own smartphone app.

The rare lunar event called the "super blue blood Moon" was a heavily gift to photographers around the world.

This is how the Moon looked when captured in the skies over the East of England.

Donald Macleod reveals some of the wealth of music English composer Benjamin Britten wrote during his remarkably successful career in the light of two enduring influences - his life partner, the tenor Peter Pears and his beloved native county of Suffolk.

The BBC helped advance Britten's career by broadcasting two chamber pieces he had composed whilst still a student at the Royal College of Music. He was soon writing soundtracks for the GPO Film Unit as well as incidental music for the theatre, TV and radio. Donald introduces music from those early years including one of Britten's best known soundtracks for the GPO - 'Night Mail', and two works written during his wartime years in America - the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, written for Pears, and his first opera, based on the story of the mythological lumberjack, Paul Bunyan.

The first ever Aldeburgh Festival took place in June 1948. Donald Macleod introduces part of Britten's cantata St Nicholas, premiered on the opening night, plus extracts from two operas, both set in Suffolk - the dark tale of Peter Grimes, set in a fishing village based on Aldeburgh and the comedy Albert Herring, about a socially inept young man destined to be crowned May King. By 1952, when the Aldeburgh Festival was in its 5th year, Britten was nearing forty. By then, he and Pears were very much part of the fabric of the community there. Donald Macleod introduces Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, which was premiered at the festival that year, extracts from two more operas - the first based on Henry James' ghostly novella Turn of the Screw and the second on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, plus another fairy-tale work - the ballet Prince of the Pagodas, complete with magical evocation of the Balinese gamelan.

In September 1960, Britten had the good fortune to meet the Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich who became a close friend and inspiration behind five works for cello, and a song cycle for him and his wife, the singer Galina Vishnevskaya. In the fifth programme, Donald introduces the final song from the cycle - The Poet's Echo - together with part of the Cello Suite No.2, plus an extract from the intensely moving War Requiem and the second of Britten's church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace.

Britten had struggled with ill health throughout his life. He put off much needed heart surgery in order to complete his final opera, Death in Venice, premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1973. In the fifth programme Donald Macleod introduces an extract from that work which features the last major role he would write for his life partner Peter Pears, plus a movement from one of his rare late chamber works, the string quartet no.3, and an excerpt from a performance of his dramatic cantata Phaedra, sung by its dedicatee, Janet Baker.

The project, which gets nearly £10m, is one of 13 schemes in the East to receive government money.

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The MP for Suffolk Coastal has urged the public to use level crossings safely, after a teenage girl narrowly missed being hit by a train , externalat Halesworth last month.

Burning wood and coal in people's homes will come under scrutiny as part of a government drive to improve air pollution.

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Ipswich Town, external completed the signing of Mustapha Carayol around two hours before the transfer window closed last night.

The 29-year-old Gambian has agreed a deal until the end of the season, after being released by Nottingham Forest.

He's likely to make his Blues debut at Sunderland on Saturday.

Luton sign Liverpool's Lloyd Jones and Plymouth's Jake Jervis for undisclosed fees, while Flynn Downes joins on loan from Ipswich.

Ipswich Town sign Nottingham Forest winger Mustapha Carayol and defender Barry Cotter from Limerick.

National League side Aldershot Town sign defenders George Fowler and Lewis Kinsella on permanent deals.

Danielle Perrett, who has performed for The Queen, was found guilty along with her ex-fiance.

Incidents, including one where a man was found dead in freezing conditions, prompts the meeting.

The 50 "gold" coins and pottery had earlier been buried by the crew of the BBC show Detectorists.