BBC Local Live: Suffolk

Cloudy this evening, with the odd spot of patchy light rain and drizzle possible as temperatures drop to 13C (55F).

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Wednesday will remain cloudy with light ran, but it should be brighter in the afternoon with warm sunny spells with temperatures reaching 21C (70F).

For a full five-day forecast visit BBC Weather.

BT has responded to criticism from MPs its programme to roll-out superfast broadband across rural Suffolk has been too slow.

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A spokeswoman for the communications giant said: "The Better Broadband for Suffolk partnership, in which BT is a major multi-million pound investor, is very much on schedule and, by the end of 2018, it's expected that more than 95% of Suffolk properties will have access to fibre broadband.

"More than 290,000 homes and businesses already have access to fibre broadband and the number is continuing to grow rapidly."

Conservative-controlled Suffolk County Council's decision to stop subsidising household brown bins which take garden and food waste is being criticised as just a way of saving money.

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Tory councillor Matthew Hicks said the decision would encourage people to increase their own composting.

Labour leader Sandy Martin said it was purely a financial decision, while UKIP's Bill Mountford said it was penalising the urban poor who did not have gardens and could not do their own composting.

More now from this afternoon's council Cabinet meeting... Suffolk's waste disposal authority has voted to scrap subsidies for brown bins which take householders' garden and food waste.

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The county council has previously helped fund district councils which provide and collect our bins, but says the move could save £6m.

Babergh and Mid Suffolk already charge people for their brown bins. The other five district councils will now have to decide whether they will follow suit.

Tonight's Suffolk Live closing headlines

• Council contractors have been cleaning up waste, including human excrement, left by travellers in Kesgrave
• Conservative-run Suffolk County Council has decided to scrap subsidies for household brown bins for garden waste
• BT says it is "on schedule" to complete the roll-out of superfast broadband in Suffolk amid criticism from MPs

Lowestoft's local authority is defending itself against claims that the timing of its sea defence work should have avoided the summer months.

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Rocks are being dumped on the South Beach and the bulk of the work is due to last until September.

David Ritchie, councillor for coastal management at Waveney District Council, said: "We completed the first phase of these works before last winter to protect the most vulnerable part of the sea wall. At the beginning of this year we did not have the funding for the second phase which was children's corner."

Some businesses in Lowestoft say the timing of work to build sea defences made of boulders is going to adversely affect their trade.

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Some seafront traders think it's become a tourist attraction in itself.

However, cafe owner Richard Routlege said: "As well as all the noise, people will be looking out on to a building site. It's my first season and we're a bit gutted. We understand it has to be done, but I just don't think the timing is very good."

Tournament director Dave Malia is confident that the East of England Championships will run to time at Felixstowe Tennis Club this week, despite today's lengthy rain delay.

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Malia is also confident that at least three Suffolk players can shine in the doubles draw of the Aegon GB Pro Series event.

"Matt Howe features in the doubles along with James Ling partnering Paul Midgley, so it will be great to see people down the club supporting our local boys," he said.

I've spent the afternoon at a meeting of Suffolk County Council's Cabinet where councillors have agreed on a business case to move the Suffolk Record Office to University Campus Suffolk at a cost of £17.1m.

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Suffolk County Council would provide £5m and seek the rest of the funding elsewhere for the new building, which is being referred to as a research centre.

Councillor Sarah Stamp, cabinet member for communities, said: "This proposal is very aspirational for Suffolk and especially our county town, where the economic benefits would be significant and long-lasting."

Waste contractors have been clearing up an open space in Kesgrave which travellers have vacated after parking there for a month.

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More than a dozen caravans were on land next to The Farmhouse pub according to Suffolk Coastal District Council, but the last ones moved on ahead of an eviction hearing in court which had been due to take place this afternoon.

Ray Barton, who lives nearby, said: "They obviously used the hedgerows at the back of the houses as toilets - it's not only offensive, it's been a health hazard for a month and I wonder why that couldn't have been addressed."

England might be 1-0 up in the current Ashes series but Jordan Thompson will be hoping to restore a bit of Aussie pride this week at the East of England Tennis Championships in Felixstowe.

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The 21-year-old from Sydney is top seed at the event, the main draw of which should hopefully get under way later this afternoon after a lengthy rain delay.

British hopes in the singles event lie with number two seed Dan Cox, number three seed Marcus Willis and Dan Evans, who was part of Great Britain's Davis Cup squad as recently as last year.

Suffolk Police have issued more information about the 30 so-called "honour" crimes reported to them last year.

The force confirmed none of the crimes were killings or cases of female genital mutilation.

The cases involved assault, rape, kidnap and child abuse and the force had issued seven forced marriage protection orders.

Suffolk's waste disposal authority has agreed to a press ahead with a new funding deal for the county's recently built household waste incinerator at Great Blakenham.

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Suffolk County Council has been making contract fee payments to the operator Suez Environnement (formerly Sita) which built the £180m Energy-from-Waste plant.

Councillor Matthew Hicks, environment spokesman, said a refinancing of the deal with the government would save the council £1m a year and was like switching your mortgage to a new provider.

Producers are searching for wannabe chefs from Ipswich, Newmarket and the surrounding areas to take part in the cookery show Come Dine With Me.

Suffolk Police have said the number of cases of so-called "honour" crimes will be higher than the 30 cases reported to them last year.

The force has revealed the figures on the first Britain's Lost Women Day, which remembers the victims of crimes including forced marriages, female genital mutilation and violence within families, usually of middle Eastern, African or south Asian origin.

Det Ch Insp Jim Gooding said: "When I've dealt with victims myself it's all about trust and confidence in the police and other agencies and there are still people out there who are frightened to speak to us, so I'm sure we'll see more reports as we build trust and confidence."

A court hearing to enforce an eviction notice on travellers in Kesgrave has been cancelled now that all 12 caravans have moved on (vacated site pictured).

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Suffolk Coastal District Council was due to take further legal action against the travellers at Ipswich magistrates court this afternoon, but the group has moved on with some believed to be on a car park in Woodbridge.

A council spokesman said the eviction notice still applies to the green space in Kesgrave next to The Farmhouse pub, should any travellers move back there.

I'm at Suffolk County Council's cabinet meeting where the agenda includes reviewing whether all district councils should consider charging for collection on garden and vegetable waste, as Babergh and Mid Suffolk already do.

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They're also due to talk about refinancing the Energy From Waste incinerator at Great Blakenham and moving the Suffolk Record Office to University Campus Suffolk. More as the afternoon unfolds.

Staying mostly cloudy bringing a chance of a little light rain or drizzle, but remaining humid as temperatures peak at 21C (70F) this afternoon.

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This evening will remain cloudy and damp with further patchy light rain and drizzle possible as temperatures drop to 14C (57F).

Get the full five-day forecast where you live from BBC Weather.

Suffolk Police have revealed it has had 30 so-called "honour" crimes reported to it in the past year.

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Honour crimes are usually committed by families of middle eastern, south Asian or African descent, where they claim shame has been brought on them by the actions of a family member, such as refusing an arranged marriage or having a boyfriend.

Suffolk Police's honour-based abuse projects officer, Bal Howard, said: "We're also talking about things you or I probably take for granted - using a mobile phone, wearing leggings or make-up - anything that will disgrace and bring shame on the family. It becomes a controlling element similar to domestic abuse..."

A charity which campaigns against so-called "honour" crimes, say it is fighting to stop the term being used.

Suffolk Police has said it has had 30 reports of such crimes in the past year.

Aneeta Prem, from the Freedom Charity, said: "We use the term dishonour or brutality against women and young children because that's what we're talking about with these types of crimes."

A Halesworth mother, whose son died suddenly from epilepsy aged 39, has welcomed a new phone app to help people with the condition.

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The charity Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy has brought out the Epilepsy Self Monitor which is designed to help adults who experience seizures to manage their risk.

Ro Williams, said the app may have prevented her son Owen's death last July: "It would perhaps bring to the fore things that they could show their doctor such as 'six months ago my job changed and I was given more responsibility' or something like that, so the neurologist could see what was happening over the year."

Bury Town are preparing for their first pre-season friendly of the summer away at Mildenhall this evening and the fixture comes just a few months on from Bury's relegation from the Ryman Premier Division.

Chairman Russell Ward has been telling us that there is no pressure on manager Ben Chenery to get the Blues straight up again and says, just like at professional level, the non-league game is being dominated by club's that are spending the most money.

"It will always be on the record that we got relegated but it had been coming for two or three seasons after we initially went up. It wasn't Ben's fault last year and there was no question in sticking by him," Ward said.

The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey says he was convinced BT would deliver on its promises to deliver superfast broadband in rural parts of counties including Suffolk.

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Responding to criticisms from Suffolk MPs in the House of Commons last night, Mr Vaizey said: "When BT gets on the ground and does the mapping exercises, it might find that getting to a particular village is more complicated than it had thought, so it revises its plan."

He added that he was convinced BT would eventually deliver everything it had promised, but he also said communities should be kept informed about how long they would have to wait.

Tributes have been paid to an "extremely inspirational" Sudbury primary school head teacher who died after falling from a horse.

As Felixstowe's tennis championships get under way on top of the cliff, we've been sent a picture of the town's seafront gardens down below on the prom.

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Robert Medd, who took this picture of the gardens behind the Spa Pavilion theatre was impressed by how "lush" they were looking.

We'd love to feature your pictures of Suffolk on Local Live - send them to us by email or post on our Facebook page.

Play is under way on the grass courts at Felixstowe Tennis Club where the men's Aegon International Pro Series begins today.

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Following a week of wet weather, there were concerns the grass would not have dried out as the courts do not have covers.

Qualifying took place on the hard courts yesterday, but the club says the grass has dried out sufficiently.

As travellers have left an open space in Kesgrave ahead of a court hearing due to take place this afternoon, seven caravans are now using a public car park in Woodbridge.

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A spokesman for Suffolk Coastal District Council, which owns the Lime Kiln Quay Road car park, said the process of evicting them was in its very early stages.

Liaison officers from Suffolk County Council had not carried out their statutory welfare checks and no court process would take place until that had happened.

The Marchen Maersk, which can carry 18,000 standard containers (or twenty-foot equivalent units in port-speak), is not the largest vessel to have docked in Felixstowe.

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In January, the CSCL Globe arrived and that has a capacity of 19,000 containers.

In March, the MSC Oscar (pictured) docked and although it has a capacity for 19,224 containers, it looked half-empty by the time it arrived in Suffolk.

The news headlines for Suffolk:

• A green space in Kesgrave has now been vacated by travellers who had been there since mid-June
• MPs have criticised what they call a 'slow roll-out' of BT's programme to introduce superfast broadband in Suffolk
• The Maersk shipping line has formally named its new Marchen Maersk vessel while docked in Felixstowe

Jo Churchill, Conservative MP for Bury St Edmunds, has told Parliament that broadband was now the "fourth utility" yet there were "whole streets" in her constituency that were still not connected.

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MPs acknowledged that 100,000 homes in Suffolk had now been connected as part of the BT programme to roll-out superfast broadband, but heard that businesses had complained the connection was not as fast as it should have been at peak times.

Dan Poulter, Conservative MP for Central Suffolk & North Ipswich, said: "If the superfast broadband service that they have bought into is not superfast, then it is not fit for the purpose for which it was intended." We'll have more on this later.

MPs from Suffolk have questioned the speed of the programme to roll-out superfast broadband across the county.

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Speaking in the Commons last night, Dan Poulter, Conservative MP for Central Suffolk & North Ipswich, said BT was being slow to deliver on its promises to upgrade some parts of the county.

He said some businesses were complaining that where it had been put in, it was only superfast during non-peak hours.

Ipswich Spy has been posting on Twitter following the parliamentary debate on broadband in rural areas.

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Dan Poulter, Conservative MP for Mid Suffolk & North Ipswich, introduced the debate in the House of Commons last night.

We'll have more on that debate with the BBC East's political correspondent Andrew Sinclair later.

Felixstowe Tennis Club says it will wait for its grass courts to dry out before play gets under way at the Aegon International Pro Series tournament today.

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It's the first day of competition after qualifying ended yesterday.

Digby Smith, club chairman, said: "It's important that we try to start play on our nine grass courts rather than our hard courts as this is a grass court championship, so we may wait until after 11:00 when play is scheduled to start."

The last of the 12 caravans which have been on open space in Kesgrave since mid-June have now left.

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Wheelie bins had been put out for the travellers, but there is some litter left on the grass next to The Farmhouse pub.

There is also evidence of human waste in the bushes surrounding the grass.

The Maersk container shipping line officially named the largest vessel in its 600-strong fleet when it docked in Felixstowe on Monday.

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The Marchen Maersk can carry up to 18,000 containers and the port said it was averaging three visits by ships of this size each week.

Clemence Cheng, chief executive of the Port of Felixstowe, said: "Not only do we invest in this quayside, but also all the rail connectivities and we work very hard with the government and Network Rail to ensure everything is in place." Take a look around the ship on our Facebook page.

The East of England Tennis Championship gets under way at Felixstowe Tennis Club this morning with four players in the current British top 10 playing in the Aegon Pro-Series event over the next five days.

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Club chairman, Digby Smith, said 20 countries will be represented: "It's quite amazing isn't it? These guys are working really hard to get world ranking points to keep moving up the ladder so they can play in bigger and better tournaments.

"Spectators are so close to the game whereas at Wimbledon you're up in the gods, but here you can almost stand behind the server and hear the crack of the ball."

BBC Suffolk's Luke Deal has been at the travellers encampment in Kegrave and says all the caravans have now gone.

A spokesman for Suffolk Coastal District Council said it was waiting to confirm whether it would press ahead with a eviction hearing due to take place before magistrates in Ipswich this afternoon.

Earlier this morning I paid a visit to the travellers' encampment next to The Farmhouse pub in Kesgrave.

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Up to 12 caravans have been there since mid-June. Householders blockaded other green open spaces in the town on Thursday following rumours more travellers would be turning up, which proved to be unfounded.

Only two caravans remained on the site at 07:50 next to Cardew Drift. A court case to evict them is due to be heard by magistrates in Ipswich later.

The shipping line Maersk has officially named its largest ship while in docked in Felixstowe.

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The Marchen Maersk can carry 18,000 standard containers - giving it the largest capacity in the company's fleet of 600 ships.

Mark Cornwell from Maersk said: "It's the economies of scale it provides, it's very fuel-efficient and everything you see is brand new."

As travellers leave an encampment in Kesgrave, seven caravans are now in a public car park in nearby Woodbridge.

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The Lime Kiln Quay Road car park is run by Suffolk Coastal District Council, which has said it was looking to resolve the issue.

Residents of Kesgrave blockaded other green spaces in the town amid rumours more travellers would arrive on Friday, although these rumours turned out to be unfounded.

Bury Town's chairman believes new signings Sam Reed and Ace Howell can play a major part in their attempt to win promotion back to the Ryman Premier Division at the first attempt.

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Russell Ward, Bury chairman, said: "There were other clubs interested but Sam chose us and that's brilliant. While Ace had been at Ipswich Town and had perhaps set his sights on making something there -it's great that he's chosen us to hopefully get him back on that path [to a professional career] again."

The club has a pre-season friendly at Mildenhall Town tonight.

A eviction hearing about a group of travellers at Kesgrave is due in court later.

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Up to 12 caravans (pictured on Friday) had been on an open space next to The Farmhouse pub since mid-June, and a hearing brought by Suffolk Coastal District Council was adjourned last week.

It is due to be heard before magistrates in Ipswich.

About 70 people turned up to a Kesgrave Town Council meeting held in a car park last night hoping to talk about a travellers' encampment next to The Farmhouse pub in the town.

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The meeting room at the council office only has space for 15 members of the public so Neal Beecroft-Smith, chairman of the town council, addressed people outside the building. "I can assure you the town council will hold a meeting dedicated to this issue at a venue more suitable," he said.

Residents had blockaded other green spaces in the town since Thursday amid unfounded fears more travellers would turn up.

A cloudy day with patchy light rain or drizzle, but some bright spells are possible in the north and north west of Suffolk heading towards the Fens and Norfolk.

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Feeling humid as temperatures reach up to 20C (68F). Kate Kinsella has Tuesday's forecast in full.

The news headlines for Suffolk on Tuesday morning:

• A town council meeting in Kesgrave to discuss illegal traveller encampments had to be held in a car park due to the number of residents attending
• Suffolk Police say there are about 30 so-called 'honour' crimes across the county each year
• MPs say BT has been slow to roll-out broadband in Suffolk

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