Felixstowe electric truck hub edges closer with £50,000 boost

Freeport East has given £50,000 to help Maritime Transport develop plans for an electric HGV charging hub in Felixstowe, with the facility potentially open by 2028.

Hay Wain exhibition draws 11,000 visitors in eight weeks

More than 11,000 tickets have been booked for The Hay Wain: Walking Constable's Landscape at Christchurch Mansion since it opened on 11 July, with the exhibition closing on Sunday, 4 October.

Suffolk fly-tipping cases top 4,000 as government plans tougher fines

Suffolk councils recorded 4,144 fly-tipping incidents last year, but issued just 54 fines, as the Government prepares to raise maximum penalties by 400% to £5,000.

New playground put to the test by Ipswich Prep School pupils

Pupils at Ipswich Prep School spent their first day back this term climbing, balancing and exploring a brand-new playground, officially opened by the Mayor of Ipswich in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Exclusive: The demolition of Debenhams

Ipswich.co.uk can exclusively reveal that Ipswich Borough Council has acquired the former Debenhams building for £4m and plans to demolish it after the current owner, Unex, stripped it bare and allowed it to become a "blight" on our high street for half a decade.

Lloyds Avenue work to begin this year, six years on

Ipswich Borough Council says construction on the Lloyds Avenue revamp will finally go ahead, after Suffolk County Council approved the highways work needed – six years after the scheme was first proposed and five years after funding was secured.

Forgotten Ipswich: The hippodrome that time forgot

Ipswich's theatrical history is usually remembered through its grandest venues, but long before the famous Hippodrome on St Nicholas Street, there was another Hippodrome, on Woodbridge Road, almost entirely erased from local memory, with barely a trace left to prove it ever existed.

Thomas Wolsey pub unveils new mural celebrating Sheeran gig

A new mural has been unveiled at the Thomas Wolsey pub in Ipswich, created by local artist Maddie Willis to mark Ed Sheeran's surprise gig at the venue, with Mayor Pat Bruce-Browne on hand for the unveiling.

Council's bagged waste crackdown cuts town centre mess by two-thirds

Weeks after Ipswich.co.uk highlighted bin bags piling up outside town centre shops, the council says enforcement action has cut the number left out on the street each week from 84 to 29.

Bramford man jailed for six years over drug dealing

A 25-year-old man has been jailed for six years and a woman given a suspended sentence after Suffolk Police uncovered a drugs operation at a house in Bramford.

Suffolk completes 141km road surface dressing programme

Suffolk Highways has finished this year's surface dressing programme, treating 86 sites and more than 750,000 square metres of road between June and August.

Ten years of The Smokehouse and the scene it built in Ipswich

Ten years ago, a disused office space at South Street became a stage. As The Smokehouse turns ten, it is sharing its birthday month with the University of Suffolk – and the pair are throwing a party together.

Buttermarket reopens after closure

The Buttermarket reopened at 08:00 today, Thursday, 3 September, following a closure caused by a burst water main.

Buttermarket working to restore power after water burst

Parts of The Buttermarket remain without power days after a burst water main forced the Ipswich shopping centre to close.

Ipswich poets create new free stage for undiscovered talent

Two Suffolk poets have launched Five Poets, a new bi-monthly event at Bin93, to give talented local writers their first chance to deliver a full 20-minute set.

Facial recognition van leads to two arrests in Ipswich

A live facial recognition deployment across Tavern Lane and Upper Brook Street on Thursday, 27 August 2026, led to two arrests, Suffolk Constabulary has confirmed, after officers screened 27,531 faces against a watchlist of 771 people.

'I'm not sorry, and I'd leak it again' – Conservative councillor Ian Fisher speaks out

In an exclusive interview, Ian Fisher tells Ipswich.co.uk exactly why he leaked confidential council information – and why he would do it again. Now publicly disciplined for it, the Conservative group leader is asking whether a Labour councillor would have faced the same reckoning.

Suffolk's 'pothole crisis,' and Reform's 'war' to fix it

Potholes are reported to cost UK drivers an estimated £1.48bn a year and have been linked to thousands of road casualties. Suffolk County Council believes a new piece of machinery and a wider change in how it works could help turn the tide on its own backlog.

Nominations open for King's Award honouring Suffolk volunteers

Suffolk residents are being encouraged to nominate local volunteer groups for The King's Award for Voluntary Service, the UK's top honour for voluntary organisations.

Police appeal to find missing Ipswich man, Gino Silva

Suffolk police are asking for the public's help to trace Gino Silva, a 26-year-old from Ipswich who was reported missing on Sunday, 30 August.

Ipswich man to shave 20 years of hair for cousin's cancer fight

Aston French will cut off hair he has grown since school and shave his head at John Olivers on Great Colman Street, in solidarity with his cousin Claire, who is being treated for leukaemia.

Ipswich accountancy firm Ensors rebrands as Azets

Ensors has officially become Azets from Tuesday, 1 September, completing the rebrand of the East Anglian firm a year after it was acquired by the international advisory group.

Greens slam axed Ipswich e-bike hire scheme as 'backward'

The Green group at Suffolk County Council has accused the ruling administration of "ignorance" or an "ideology against cycling" after plans for an e-bike hire scheme in Ipswich were shelved over safety concerns.

Crash survivor who broke his spine takes on charity trek for the crew who saved him

Four years after a motorbike collision left him with a broken spine, Pedro Santos, 45, is trekking 2.4 miles in Cambridge this month to raise money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance crew who flew him to hospital.