Suffolk police are warning the public about illicit vapes after men in their 30s and 50s collapsed in separate incidents in Ipswich this month, with seized products found to contain a dangerous synthetic cannabinoid.
A design inspired by club legends, local diversity and a Dara O'Shea quote has been brought to life by supporter and artist Bradley Lloyd, after thousands of fans backed his vision for Ipswich Town's new community mural.
New payment signage for Britannia Parking and ParkBunny has gone up at Tacket Street and Tower Ramparts car park, adding a third payment system for drivers to navigate after weeks of U-turns and confusion.
Vandals have left broken glass in and around Bourne paddling pool overnight, forcing Ipswich Borough Council to drain it – with the current hosepipe ban meaning it cannot be refilled.
While most supporters settled for a chant or a pint after full time, Martin Jeyes wrote a poem – one for every single Ipswich Town league game of the 2025-26 season, right through to the very last whistle. Here is his published archive of Town's promotion season.
Ipswich Phoenix Basketball Club are hosting a free Community Fun Day at Chantry Academy on Sunday, 30 August, featuring basketball, music, food, face painting and a bouncy castle.
Sir Lenny Henry and Chris McCausland are joining this year's Happy Christmas Ipswich, a fundraiser show that has raised around £700,000 for East Anglia's Children's Hospices since 2019.
Illegally parked cars, litter, seed husks, bird mess, unexplainable stains, bins left out all day, street drinking – none of these alone is Ipswich's biggest problem. Collectively, encountered every day – by every visitor on nearly every street in the town centre – they have become just that.
Suffolk's police and crime commissioner called the latest inspection "a good report". His Majesty's Inspectorate rated the force good on just one of nine measures, and inadequate on two, including how it protects vulnerable people from harm.
Emotional support animals and pets have been banned from Suffolk County Council's offices, but just five days earlier, its leader's dog, Waffles, was given a pass and his own office sign. Ipswich.co.uk sniffs out the paper trail and puts the questions to the council's top dog...and his owner.
Suffolk County Council's monitoring officer found two breaches of law in a process he was part of. He then decided for himself how serious they were, and that the consequences could wait. A leaked report confirms the breaches, but does nothing to explain the delay.
A Section 5A report is one of the most serious sanctions available in English local government – and one is heading Suffolk County Council's way. Rather than being issued at pace, as convention demands, it appears set to wait until the council's October cabinet meeting. We ask why.
Suffolk County Council's Reform UK leader, Michael Hadwen, is exploring selling off the council's wholly owned companies before power is handed to three new unitary authorities, a recording of a private meeting has revealed, sparking outrage from opposition leaders.
Win or lose its bid to become the 2029 City of Culture, local businesses are being asked to fund a "city of culture" regardless. Can the council convince a cash-strapped private sector to look beyond its past performance and fund its ten-year culture strategy?
Seven weeks into a troubled recycling rollout, and with residents reportedly threatening legal action, a senior councillor says East Suffolk Council's governance – not just its bins – is now in question.
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A new bench offering a peaceful spot in the greenery, and a direct link to mental health support, has been installed in Christchurch Park — the third of its kind in Ipswich.
Girls Anatomy, an Ipswich support organisation founded by two women living with chronic health conditions, will host its first event at Belstead Arms on Sunday, 30 August, featuring guest speakers, a sunflower painting session and a charity raffle.
Suffolk-based practitioners in traditional building crafts have until Friday, 16 October, to apply for funding towards equipment, training or business support.
Suffolk IT and telecoms provider ICS has relocated to a larger headquarters near Ipswich, expanding its floorspace by half after a year of growth and a regional business award win.
Suffolk County Council is urging drivers to take extra care and never attempt to drive through floodwater as a Yellow Weather Warning for thunderstorms comes into force across the county on Wednesday, 26 August.
The clean-up we reported on Upper Brook Street this morning generated much excitement before grinding to a halt after just a short stretch. The council has confirmed the hosepipe ban is behind the sudden stop.
John Lewis and Partners has applied to Ipswich Borough Council to sell clothing, footwear and accessories at its Futura Retail Park store, after admitting it is one of the retailer's worst-performing outlets.
A charity has awarded £18,000 to the University of Suffolk, which will go towards funding three BA (Hons) Business Management students with £2,000 a year each from September 2026.
Ipswich Borough Council workers have been spotted pressure washing Upper Brook Street, days after Ipswich.co.uk launched a campaign demanding lasting change to the state of the town's streets.
A facial recognition van is returning to Ipswich town centre on Thursday, 27 August. Here is what the technology actually does, and the legal reason why police tell you about it in advance, despite the obvious flaw with doing so.
A new speciality food store selling snacks, drinks and sweets from across Asia has opened in Ipswich town centre, taking over the former Holland & Barrett unit on Westgate Street.
Two men allegedly stole alcohol and smashed a shop window at Majors newsagents in Ipswich in the early hours of Monday, 24 August 2026, police have confirmed.
A Suffolk reverend is walking the equivalent distance from Ipswich to Jerusalem after his wife and toddler, both born with a visual impairment, inspired him to support a charity providing eye care in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
When Milo Dunne could no longer make early breakfast meetings or long midday networking sessions work around the school run, he built something that would fit around parenting instead. Seven years on, that solution has spread across the region.
Ipswich Period Rights has written to Ipswich Borough Council and Suffolk County Council calling for free period products in council-run public toilets. The letter has been backed by 15 local organisations and businesses.
Illegally parked cars, litter, seed husks, bird mess, unexplainable stains, bins left out all day, street drinking – none of these alone is Ipswich's biggest problem. Collectively, encountered every day – by every visitor on nearly every street in the town centre – they have become just that.
A new art trail and drawing competition is inviting the town's young artists, from toddlers to teenagers, to create their own Constable-inspired landscapes while The Hay Wain hangs in Christchurch Mansion.
Ipswich is set to receive more than £1.25 million in government funding to tackle rough sleeping, with the Government saying everyone sleeping rough in the town will be offered a route off the streets this winter if they need it.
Simon Finbow, 54, from Ipswich, achieved a grade six in GCSE English at Suffolk New College – the same grade his son Isaac achieved on the same results day.
From record-breaking grades at the town's independent schools to rising English and maths passes at Suffolk New College, results day 2026 brought good news across the town.
Ipswich Borough Council has issued a stop notice after unauthorised building works were carried out at a Grade II listed property on Buttermarket, with the council warning of a possible criminal prosecution.
A total of 502 Suffolk New College learners achieved a grade 4 or above in maths or English this year, with maths passes up 13.7% on 2025.
A buoy freshly painted with the name Ransome's Wharf has revived a piece of Ipswich's industrial past, marking the eastern quays that once housed Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies' Orwell Works.
Three years after fleeing war-torn Sudan for Ipswich, Nasser Hamid has passed his GCSEs, officiated a charity match at Portman Road, and is now eyeing a future in engineering – and, one day, the World Cup.
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