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A behind-closed-doors leadership battle is underway at Suffolk County Council, with three Reform UK councillors understood to have put their names forward. Ipswich.co.uk examines who they are, what they bring, and what each could mean for the county.
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Two vacant commercial units at Merchants Yard on Grafton Way could soon be occupied, as a Suffolk brewery and a convenience store operator each submit separate applications.
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Freeport East has launched a new "Investment Concierge Service" aimed at attracting £500 million of additional private sector investment to the East of England, after helping to secure £450 million across the region to date.
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Xenia Zimmermann, the Ipswich-based BT engineer, has been named the country's best apprentice, scooping the Apprentice of the Year prize at the 2026 Apprenticeship Guide Awards in Leeds, winning out of more than 100 entries.
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Suffolk County Council has opened applications for a Programme Director to deliver the abolition of six councils and the creation of three new unitary authorities by 2028 – one of the most significant public sector change programmes the county has ever undertaken.
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Twenty years after a 19-year-old from Hollesley vanished from central Ipswich, detectives reviewing the case believe local people still hold the answers. On the anniversary of his last sighting, they are asking those people to come forward.
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Suffolk Constabulary is asking the public for help to find 34-year-old Daryl Taylor, who is wanted on recall to prison and has links to Ipswich and Felixstowe.
A behind-closed-doors leadership battle is underway at Suffolk County Council, with three Reform UK councillors understood to have put their names forward. Ipswich.co.uk examines who they are, what they bring, and what each could mean for the county.
Reform UK will now control Suffolk County Council, but the levers of power do not all pivot instantly. We examine what the new administration can change quickly, what it cannot, and the pressure now bearing down on a group of councillors who, until last week, had mostly never held office.
Shayne Pooley, the chairman of Reform UK in Ipswich, has publicly stated that the party's new councillors will not be speaking to the media, just hours after Reform won 10 of 16 seats on the borough council and took majority control of the county council.
Five years ago, Reform UK did not field a single candidate in Suffolk. On Thursday, the party took outright control of the county council and became the largest single winner among the seats contested in Ipswich — reshaping the political geography of the county in a single day.
As polling stations open across Ipswich and Suffolk, a detailed pre-election projection points to a dramatic political shift at Endeavour House — but the modellers behind the numbers are the first to flag the limits of what they can tell us.
With polling day just two days away, voters in Ipswich face a choice between five parties offering sharply different visions for the town and county. Here is where each one stands on the issues likely to decide how Suffolk is run for the next two years.
As a torrent of personal attacks plays out beneath candidate interviews on social media, serving councillors warn that good people are walking away from public life — and that the town will pay the price.
The directors of Shrubland Hall, a large estate just outside Ipswich, say they have planned a 100,000-person religious gathering this July with careful attention to every local authority requirement. Every local authority we have spoken to tells Ipswich.co.uk a different story.
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A 63-year-old Ipswich man has been handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence after sexually assaulting a vulnerable woman with Alzheimer's who had asked him for a lift home.
Reform UK will now control Suffolk County Council, but the levers of power do not all pivot instantly. We examine what the new administration can change quickly, what it cannot, and the pressure now bearing down on a group of councillors who, until last week, had mostly never held office.
More than 5,000 people descended on Suffolk New College's Suffolk Rural campus in Otley this weekend for the 21st Big Day Out, a free family fun day featuring everything from archery and tree climbing to equine displays and food demonstrations.
Students from Stoke High School and Hillside Primary School got their movie moment at a mini film premiere after collaborating with a professional filmmaker to create a short film championing the National Year of Reading.
Shayne Pooley, the chairman of Reform UK in Ipswich, has publicly stated that the party's new councillors will not be speaking to the media, just hours after Reform won 10 of 16 seats on the borough council and took majority control of the county council.
Five years ago, Reform UK did not field a single candidate in Suffolk. On Thursday, the party took outright control of the county council and became the largest single winner among the seats contested in Ipswich — reshaping the political geography of the county in a single day.
Council leader Neil MacDonald has held his St Johns seat, but Labour has lost 9 of the 13 seats it was defending on Ipswich Borough Council, with Reform UK taking 10 in a result that reshapes the political map of the town.
Reform UK has taken control of the authority for the first time, ending nearly two decades of near-continuous Conservative rule.
Welcome to Ipswich.co.uk's live coverage of the 2026 local elections. We shall be bringing you all the action live from the Town Hall in Ipswich. The page will automatically refresh when we update it.
A 37-year-old Ipswich man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after sending sexual messages and an explicit image to a decoy social media account he believed belonged to a 14-year-old girl.
Suffolk Constabulary has issued a fresh closure notice to Magazin Bacau Romanian Supermarket on Ipswich's Buttermarket – just six weeks after magistrates refused to grant a full closure order against the same premises.
As polling stations open across Ipswich and Suffolk, a detailed pre-election projection points to a dramatic political shift at Endeavour House — but the modellers behind the numbers are the first to flag the limits of what they can tell us.
Polling stations across Ipswich opened at 07:00 this morning as voters head to the ballot box to decide who will represent them on Suffolk County Council and Ipswich Borough Council, with results expected by Friday afternoon.
The University of Suffolk is installing a new illuminated sign on its Waterfront Building as part of a broader programme of campus improvements that also includes a new library, a student hub, and a pharmacy course launching in September.
The East of England Co-op has reported an underlying trading profit of £2m for the year ended 24 January 2026, marking its third consecutive year of profit growth and a £1m improvement on the previous year.
Paul Anderson is standing for Labour in Bixley ward at the Ipswich Borough Council elections on Thursday, 7 May. We sent every candidate the same five questions — here are Paul's answers, published in full and unedited.
A family's experience of saying goodbye to a loved one in a peaceful hospital garden has inspired a fundraising appeal to bring the same comfort to patients at Ipswich Hospital.
With polling day just two days away, voters in Ipswich face a choice between five parties offering sharply different visions for the town and county. Here is where each one stands on the issues likely to decide how Suffolk is run for the next two years.
Eighteen months ago, no one was listening. Today, Ipswich women with endometriosis have been to Parliament, they are educating employers and slowly changing the misunderstandings of endometriosis – and they are just getting started.
An exhibition exploring over a century of women's football in Suffolk is on display at Felixstowe Museum, celebrating the heritage of the women's game in the county.
Suffolk Wildlife Trust is launching the county's first-ever Festival of Nature, with events spanning music, literature, visual arts and history taking place across Suffolk from 20 September to 11 October.
Ocean Fish & Chips on Felixstowe Road has been put up for sale as a going concern, with the leasehold business listed at an asking price of £19,999.
Ipswich came to a standstill on Monday as supporters lined the streets to celebrate Ipswich Town's return to the Premier League, just two days after Kieran McKenna's side sealed automatic promotion with a 3-0 win over QPR.
A 3-0 home win over Queens Park Rangers sent Ipswich Town back to the Premier League on Saturday. Watching from the West Stand, columnist Barbara Norrey captures the blue smoke, the pitch invasion and the disbelief of the afternoon Town went up.
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