The threat of closure for Bury St Edmunds and Lowestoft magistrates courts as part of widespread Government cost-cutting has left many fearing for the future and fairness of local justice. Ipswich ...

A 30-year-old man has appeared in court charged with rape and intentional strangulation. Matthew Edgerton, from Colchester, Essex, has been accused of raping a woman in Ipswich on Sunday.