BBC Local Live: Suffolk

A last look at today's headlines:

• A delivery driver from Luton has been convicted of plotting with Islamic State to kill an American airman outside RAF Lakenheath
• Charges come into effect at Suffolk's waste recycling centres for items such as plasterboard and rubble
• Cricket legend Sir Ian Botham says Suffolk's Reece Topley has a real opportunity to be part of England set-up for many years

Ipswich Town may be six points down on where they were at this stage last season, but they have a better team, according to midfielder Cole Skuse.

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The Blues visit Wolves tomorrow, with a win crucial in terms of reigniting their bid to make the play-offs for the second campaign running.

"The quality we've got is there in abundance," insisted Skuse. "But it's about transforming it on to the pitch at the weekend."

Earlier we told you about the court case of former Ipswich Town winger Alex Henshall, who joined the club in 2010.

Henshall was allegedly caught driving at 53mph in a 30mph zone on Commercial Road just before 21:30 on 7 September last year.  

We're still waiting to hear on the result of the case and will bring it to you on Monday.

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It may not look much, but Anglian Water have told us that beneath this hole in St Nicholas Street in Ipswich, is three metres of collapsed sewer.

They're going to start repair work in the morning, and confirm the road will remain closed over the weekend.

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A man whose mother survived a devastating Zeppelin raid in Bury St Edmunds 100 years ago attended a memorial service in the town for the victims today.

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Colin Jamieson, whose maternal grandmother and two of her children died in the raid, said of his mother: "She didn't talk about it much, but described herself falling through space... didn't know what happened until she woke up in hospital.

"But she remembers the actual explosion and the damage, and screaming for her mother and so on."

Mick McCarthy will return to former club Wolverhampton Wanderers this weekend, and the Yorkshireman has never lost against Wolves while in his current role as Ipswich Town manager.

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Ahead of kick-off, McCarthy's admitted that he has sympathy for Wolves boss Kenny Jackett (pictured), who has lost Benik Afobe, Bakary Sako and Nouha Dicko to transfers or injury in recent months. 

"I feel for Kenny because that's akin to us losing Ryan Fraser, Teddy Bishop and David McGoldrick," McCarthy said. "It makes your team a worse team."

Suffolk Police have revealed they seized more than a thousand vehicles last year, because the drivers were uninsured or didn't have a licence.

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PC John Clarke explains how the automated number plate recognition system they use works: "[It] reads number plates, then does a check on the national database to make sure they've got insurance and everything on that vehicle.

"If it hasn't, then it will alarm,and allow me to do a few more checks to go and stop the vehicle and if necessary take action."

Charges flagged up by Suffolk County Council last month, for taking plasterboard, rubble and soil to household waste recycling centres, come into effect from today.

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When the charges of £2 for a 25kg bag, or £50 for a transit van-load were first mentioned, Independent councillor Trevor Beckwith told BBC Suffolk he disagrees with the move.

He said "Don't forget many of the people out there have had very little in the way of pay rises... Over the last five, six, seven years. It all adds up and I don't think it's right.

Suffolk County Council said introducing the charges "has not been an easy choice to make."

Cricket legend Sir Ian Botham believes Suffolk's Reece Topley has a real opportunity to be a part of the England set-up for many years.

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Topley is part of the England squad that has made it through to Sunday's World T20 final in Kolkata, and the 22-year-old will play his domestic cricket for Hampshire this year.

"He's had the introduction and now he needs to cement it," Botham told BBC Suffolk. "Playing on one of the best pitches at Hampshire should help."

Suffolk's Peter Wright returned to winning ways in the Premier League last night.

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The Mendham thrower beat Dave Chisnall by seven legs to five in Cardiff to keep his hopes of making the play-offs alive. 

Chisnall was elminated from the competition after nine rounds along with Michael Smith, who lost to Phil Taylor.

While we've resisted the temptation to put any "fictitious" stories on Suffolk Live, we've spotted a couple of good ones you may have missed:

King Edward VI school in Bury St Edmunds posted this on their Facebook page: "We are pleased to announce that, in line with Government policy, from the start of term we will be known as Ed's Academy".

And the Red Rose Chain theatre company based in Ipswich suggested a novel way of marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death:  

Ipswich Town have had almost two weeks to ponder their last match which ended in a 1-0 defeat and a barrage of criticism from their home supporters.

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Midfielder Cole Skuse has acknowledged that supporters are entitled to voice their opinions, and adds that the Blues will try hard to bounce back away at Wolves tomorrow. 

"It's never nice to hear boos and you do think about what's being said," Skuse said. "But you should never get too high with the highs or to low with the lows."

A delivery driver from Luton has been found guilty of plotting a terror attack on US military personnel in the UK as a show of his allegiance to the self-styled Islamic State group. What does his case say about the nature of the threat faced by the UK?  

Read Dominic Casciani's background article here.

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The BBC's Alex Dunlop looks at the background to Junead Khan's guilty conviction at Kingston Crown Court of terrorism offences, and speaks to the commander of 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, Colonel Robert Novotny:

Two British Islamic would-be jihadis from Luton were on the radar of the Government's anti-extremism programme a year before they were arrested - and joked about it.

Junead Khan, 25, and his uncle Shazib Khan, 23, mocked the Prevent programme after a police officer visited Junead's Luton home in 2014, their trial heard. The pair have been found guilty at Kingston Crown Court of preparing to travel to Syria.

They used the WhatsApp instant messenger to discuss the visit from Bedfordshire Police, in which an officer left a card asking for Junead to call him. The trial heard the two men also shared extremist material using WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging programmes.

A Luton man found guilty of planning a terror attack on American military personnel in East Anglia was also convicted alongside his uncle of preparing to go to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State.

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Some of the evidence used to convict Junead Khan, 25, and Shazib Khan, 23, (pictured right) cannot be revealed for legal reasons, but both men had denied engaging in the preparation of terrorist acts between 1 August 2014 and 15 July 2015.

Neither showed any emotion as the jury returned its verdicts after deliberating for almost 24 hours at the end of a six-and-a-half-week trial.

Junead Khan, the Luton man found guilty of planning a terror attack on American military personnel between May and July 2015, used his job with a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout United States Air Force bases in East Anglia, his trial heard.

Detectives later found he had been exchanging chilling online messages with a so-called Islamic State fighter in Syria calling himself Abu Hussain, including describing attacking military personnel after faking a road accident.

After Khan was arrested in July, police found pictures on his phone of him posing in his bedroom with an Islamic State-style black flag which officers later found in the attic. His computer was also found to contain an al-Qaida bomb manual and Amazon searches for a large combat knife.

Speaking before the guilty verdict on Junead Khan, the commander of 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath said they prepare for potential terror attacks.

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Colonel Robert Novotny said: "We've seen this from California to the streets of London so we're a little bit aware of it, we're obviously planning for these type of situations.

"We take the necessary precautions. We have a great relationship with the UK intelligence community and the law enforcement community to make sure we're postured to respond accordingly."

The head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, Commander Dean Haydon said Junead Khan had been visited two years ago, by officers tasked with persuading potential extremists to change course.

"He decided that he would form an attack plan here in the UK and what we think he was going to do was to carry out an attack on a US soldier first and potentially travel out to Syria later on. 

"We also saw him becoming more extreme and as result of that, in view of protecting public safety, the police and security and intelligence agencies intervened at an early stage."

Khan has been convicted of plotting with the Islamic State group to kill an American soldier outside RAF Lakenheath airbase.