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It has been a day of highly-charged mixed emotions for people in Lowestoft. This morning they woke to the news that the town had been chosen as a Portas Pilot area. The town's shopping sector is in for a boost, with 拢100,000 coming to improve the high street. However, celebrations quickly turned to shock as news began to filter through that the town's jewel-in-the-crown event, the annual airshow, was being cancelled for next year. Our Waveney reporter Guy Campbell has more on both these stories.

New figures indicating that the UK has slipped further into recession have triggered a political row. The economy shrank by 0.7% between April and June, a much bigger drop than expected. It's the third quarter in a row that output has fallen, making it the deepest double-dip recession since the 1950s. Foz gets the thoughts of Richard Proctor from the Ipswich office of finance firm Grant Thornton.

The Ipswich MP Ben Gummer says the government is aware that women in refuges could have problems with the introduction of a universal benefit system. Lighthouse Women's Refuge says sorting out individual benefits online will be a real problem for women escaping violence at home. Mr. Gummer tells Foz that they're working on these problems.

In the first hour, Glen Pearce treads the boards of Suffolk theatre and there's news of the launch of Sudbury Streetwatch.

In the music hour after 6pm, a double shot from Blur and The Doobie Brothers, plus blues-rock trio Electra Live and In Session.