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Olympic gold for cycling and rowing

Bradley Wiggins wins Team GB's second gold medal of the day and of the games. He won the men's time trial. It follows a gold for rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the women's pair.

In the news hour from 5pm, ITFC Chief Executive Simon Clegg, an instrumental figure in bringing the Olympics to London, chats to Foz about Team GB's two gold medals, David Sheepshanks stepping down from Ipswich Town PLC and Guam's rather large Olympian.

A new scheme has been launched, designed to boost High Street bank lending. Under the joint initiative by the Treasury and the Bank of England, billions of pounds of cheap funds will be made available to banks, but only if they use the money to boost their loans to businesses and consumers. Bury St Edmunds MP David Ruffley tells Foz he isn't confident that it will work.

The Highways Agency has confirmed that its considering installing average speed cameras along the Kelvedon Bypass stretch of the A12. The road, which handles tens of thousands of vehicles every day, was once dubbed Britain's Worst Road. Our reporter James Waterhouse has more.

In the first hour, Steve Hawthorne treads the boards of alternative theatre in Suffolk.

In the music hour from 6pm, Foz has The Look...well, a member the group The Look that is. He's Suffolk-based Johnny Whetstone who talks about the band's biggest hit I Am The Beat and their new single.

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Wed 1 Aug 2012 16:00

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  • Wed 1 Aug 2012 16:00

Mark Murphy at breakfast

Mark Murphy at breakfast

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