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The pictures our team snapped when they are out around Suffolk covering your news.

31/07/09
Sir Bobby Robson Tributes
Town 102 is at the scene of Sir Bobby Robson's statue on Portman Road, as crowds gather and leave flowers and tributes, just hours after he passed away at the age of 76.

31/07/09
Sir Bobby Robson Tributes
Ipswich's Mayor Councillor David Goldsmith at the Sir Bobby Robson statue in Ipsiwch.

31/07/09
Sir Bobby Robson Tributes

18/06/09
HRH Prince Edward visits Ipswich
HRH Prince Edward's been talking to year 12 students in Ipswich today - about their futures.

The first ever Higher Education Convention was held at UCS earlier -with the Royal officially opening the new waterfront building.

18/06/09
HRH Prince Edward visits Ipswich

03/02/09
Town 102 at Wattisham Airfield
Town 102's had inside access to where the UK's 67 Apache helicopters are based.

Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk is the main operating base for the country's attack helicopter force.

Apache’s cost £40m each - and currently 9 are out in Afghanistan. They're part of the Joint Helicopter Force and are based at Camp Bastion. They're supporting our troops - but can also be called in to assist other NATO forces.

They're main aim is to protect other aircraft and try to help stabalise the country.

Once they've flown for 600 hours they have to come back here to Suffolk to get checked over.

Ground crews and maintenance teams work round the clock to make sure they're safe to fly again.

There's also state of the art training facilities at Wattisham - including simulators for pilots to experience things they can't do on ranges elsewhere in the UK. As part of their training pilots spend time in Arizona to experience extreme temperatures and an environment similar to that in Afghanistan.

There's always an apache presence in Afghanistan - and at the moment squadrons are being deployed there every 4 months.

Wattisham has strong local support and is strengthening links with the community - this summer a parade is going to be held to celebrate the airfield's 70th Anniversary.

03/02/09