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Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service is getting 11 new frontline fire engines as part of a £3.6 million fleet renewal programme, with the vehicles due to enter service at stations across the county later this year.
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Suffolk County Council has approved spending up to £1.35m to develop a business case for improving a congestion-hit junction on the A140 at Earl Stonham, with opposition councillors raising financial, environmental and community concerns about the scheme.
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Suffolk Police are urging anyone with information to come forward after Jonathan Clarke, 39, was reported missing from the Heath Road area of Ipswich on Monday evening.
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When a 15-year-old boy with severe epilepsy was beaten by a large group of his peers in an Ipswich park, his mother expected the police to act. What followed, she says, has left her son feeling more unsafe than ever.
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A 24-year-old racing driver who lives steps from The Treehouse hospice in Ipswich is raising funds and awareness for East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) throughout her 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge season.
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An equine centre that has trained more than 1,000 students since Princess Anne cut the ribbon in 2006 has celebrated its 20th anniversary, with alumni returning from careers spanning Newmarket, Australia and Argentina.
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Remmy Ajadi has spent nearly three decades in sales and business. But it was a dream and a growing unease about what social media was doing to his sons that pushed him to build something different.
When a 15-year-old boy with severe epilepsy was beaten by a large group of his peers in an Ipswich park, his mother expected the police to act. What followed, she says, has left her son feeling more unsafe than ever.
Boarded-up shops have become part of the furniture in Ipswich town centre. A little-known law could be about to change that, and for the first time, the council looks ready to use it.
Ipswich Borough Council's strategy promises to make the town centre "vibrant, inclusive, and a great place to live, work, and visit." Its parking strategy is to charge a little more every year. At some point, it needs to address the obvious contradiction.
From sorting rails at the British Heart Foundation to cashing up at Oxfam, Ipswich's charity shop volunteers give thousands of hours every year – for free. This Volunteers' Week, we went behind the till to meet the people who make it all possible.
We spoke with fifteen students from Westbourne Academy and asked them to describe Maple Park – Jubilee to many people who live there. Their answers tell a story that no council meeting or policing strategy can capture.
Suffolk County Council's Reform administration says it is cutting waste and ending virtue signalling. Opposition parties are united in saying it is doing the opposite. We examine, in detail, the arguments on both sides.
Essex and Suffolk are both mounting legal challenges to government reorganisation under Reform leadership. Essex chose to publish its pre-action letter; Suffolk has not. Reading one tells us a great deal about what the other might say, and whether the challenge is worth the cost.
Suffolk Constabulary has reported significant reductions across most crime categories in Ipswich, and the officers behind those numbers deserve fair credit – but the story is more complicated than the headline figures alone can tell.
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Darell Chipuru, 17, from Ipswich, has been awarded a bursary place at the Wooden Roots Experience, a West African drum and dance weekend that draws students from around the world to Snape Maltings.
A growing collaboration between Jimmy's Farm and Suffolk New College is giving local students hands-on experience in TV and media, with the attraction pledging at least three student-led projects every year.
Five years after cycling from London to Brighton at 13 to raise money for a family friend's widow and four daughters, Logan Mashongamhende is at it again — this time organising his own charity football match for Inspire Suffolk.
Regulars of The Thrasher on Nacton Road should note their local has closed today for refurbishment works, with a reopening planned for next month following a six-figure investment.
An Ipswich alternative provision academy that supports some of the town's most vulnerable young people has been praised by Ofsted for its inclusive culture and the "clear moral purpose" of its leaders.
A popular cake stall has been granted a year-long licence to trade outside Ipswich Town's Portman Road ground, as the club prepares for its return to the Premier League.
You may never have heard of insulated sandwich panels, but chances are you have been inside a building that depends on them. Now they are being made just outside Stowmarket.
When Carl Brown noticed England players cutting slots into the backs of their socks, he asked why. The answer led the Ipswich-raised entrepreneur to develop a patented medical sock that has been worn by hundreds of NHS patients and professional athletes alike.
Boarded-up shops have become part of the furniture in Ipswich town centre. A little-known law could be about to change that, and for the first time, the council looks ready to use it.
Ipswich Borough Council's strategy promises to make the town centre "vibrant, inclusive, and a great place to live, work, and visit." Its parking strategy is to charge a little more every year. At some point, it needs to address the obvious contradiction.
The staff, volunteers and pupils behind Ipswich breakfast clubs have until Friday, 29 June to enter this year's Kellogg's Breakfast Club Awards, with a £1,000 grant and recognition at the Houses of Parliament up for grabs.
Ipswich Town CEO and chairman Mark Ashton made a surprise visit to Gusford Primary School on Monday, 8 June, bringing the club's 2025/26 Championship promotion trophy and raising money for local charities, including his own Lentonbrook Foundation.
More than 1,000 eligible families across Suffolk are failing to claim Healthy Start support, leaving an estimated £1 million in food and vitamin payments unclaimed, even as weekly payment rates rise.
Two beauty therapy students from Suffolk New College have taken first and second place in a national massage skills competition, beating 15 rivals from colleges across the UK.
Ipswich Borough Council is proposing to increase parking charges across its off-street car parks and on-street bays from 20 July 2026, with hourly rates set to rise by 10p. It follows a similar increase to last year.
From a 12-year-old to an 82-year-old, fundraisers of all ages conquered their fears this weekend to descend Ipswich Hospital's tower in wet and windy conditions, raising more than £60,000 for patients and families across the region.
Claire Boobbyer did not come to Ipswich to be impressed. She came, as many do, without particularly high expectations – and left a convert. Her travel feature in The Independent, published this morning, is a love letter to a town that has spent too long being told it is not worth loving.
Suffolk County Council has written to the county's chief constable calling for guarantees that police training never creates "doubt, hesitation or competing priorities" when responding to a risk to life – a direct response to national debate sparked by the heavily politicised murder of Henry Nowak.
A charity five-a-side football tournament hosted by law firm Birketts at Portman Road has raised £20,250, with funds split equally between East Anglia's Children's Hospices and Ipswich Town Foundation.
Plans to convert two fire-damaged buildings in Ipswich into a 16-bed shared home have been refused by councillors, who overturned officer advice and dismissed the proposal as "nonsense."
A housebuilder's charity, which has donated more than £3 million since 2021, has opened its second funding round of the year, offering grants of £50,000 to organisations focused on helping young people into work.
Twenty-eight teams braved wind, rain and two capsizes at Ipswich Waterfront on Saturday to raise a record £60,000 for children and young people affected by sexual abuse.
Suffolk Chamber of Commerce took a delegation of leading local businesses to Westminster last week to press Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch on infrastructure, employment costs and tax relief.
The University of Suffolk is opening applications for three new postgraduate courses — in social work, digital marketing and data analytics, and cognitive behavioural therapy — all starting in September.
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