Around 3,500 young people from across Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex got a glimpse of their future this month, as 73 businesses and organisations descended on Suffolk New College for its third annual FutureSkills Fair.
Senior business and political figures gathered at BT's Martlesham research centre on Friday, 26 October, for the third Suffolk Convention, as the county weighs how to secure better funding from Westminster and prepares to elect its first Norfolk and Suffolk mayor.
As plans to demolish the 92-year-old Suffolk landmark come under scrutiny, other redundant water towers have found remarkable new lives. And East Suffolk Council has confirmed it possesses a legal power that could give Trimley’s tower a fighting chance.
The Hembry family, who have a long-standing association with the town and own a number of sites and developments, are understood to be the 'last buyer standing' for the Buttermarket Centre. The price is believed to be around £5m – a fraction of the £54.7m it fetched nine years ago.
Ipswich's long-running Christchurch Park fireworks display will feature new laser technology for the Halloween Fireworks Spooktacular on Saturday, 31 October.
Fifty local men were offered free prostate cancer blood tests after Kesgrave War Memorial Community Centre (KWMCC) secured council funding to bring the CHAPS charity to town.
Suffolk Building Society and Ipswich Town Foundation have delivered a series of financial education workshops to secondary school pupils across Ipswich, and want to reach even more schools this academic year.
Ipswich.co.uk can exclusively reveal that Ipswich has not made the shortlist for UK City of Culture 2029. The town that was the first in the country to declare its ambition is out, and the questions start now.
In 2021, inspectors found that Ipswich Hospital's maternity tower failed national design standards and that maternity services "required improvement". Five years on, midwives say almost nothing has changed, and a £98m plan to replace the building rests on a decision due within days.
Suffolk County Council has backed a motion to explore holding a countywide referendum on housing asylum seekers, with 60% of councillors voting in favour. The decision followed a heated debate which exposed sharp divisions over cost, legality and motive.
Ipswich Borough Council has the legal powers to force owners to clean up neglected buildings in our town, but it hasn't used them on a single commercial property in at least five years. Ipswich.co.uk asks why.
A mother needs an emergency C-section, immediately. When the lifts serving Ipswich Hospital's maternity block aren't working – which, according to midwives, they often aren't – it could take 13 minutes to carry her to theatre. It could be too late. Ipswich.co.uk investigates.
Suffolk's rate of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) is above national and regional averages, and has risen over four years. The council says the government is shortchanging it, but a local teenager's account reminded councillors what those numbers represent.
A decade of research led by two organisations in Suffolk has found that survivors of child sexual abuse wait an average of 15 years before they access support.
Suffolk County Council told councillors on Thursday, 17 September, that it had no preferred solution to the A14 around Ipswich, and that "all options" remained firmly on the table as its cabinet approved £300,000 for a Pre-Strategic Outline Business Case.
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Ipswich Borough Council plans to buy the land beneath two Victorian buildings at the Cranfield Mill site for £1.09m, according to correspondence seen by Ipswich.co.uk. With the council declining to comment, the question remains: what comes first, the sale or the demolition?
Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham have been shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2029, with each guaranteed at least £125,000 and one set to win a £10m prize in early 2027.
A decision on a £98m bid to replace Ipswich Hospital's ageing maternity tower is expected within weeks, after Ipswich MP Jack Abbott raised the building's condition in Parliament and the health minister pledged to discuss the proposal with him.
Ipswich.co.uk can exclusively reveal that Ipswich has not made the shortlist for UK City of Culture 2029. The town that was the first in the country to declare its ambition is out, and the questions start now.
Broadcaster and film producer Emma Freud OBE and historian Dr Alison Weir have been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Suffolk at graduation ceremonies at the Ipswich Waterfront.
Gemma Upson, who first picked up crochet at primary school, has graduated from the University of Suffolk, calling her Fine Art degree “hand-on-heart one of the best things I have ever done” - and she has celebrated by immortalising her tutors and technicians as crocheted alter egos.
A new ten-year Culture & Heritage Strategy for Ipswich launches today, setting out five ambitions to put arts and heritage at the heart of the town's communities, economy and regeneration. It comes as a decision on Ipswich's 2029 City of Culture bid is imminent.
Ipswich Borough Council has reclaimed control of Broomhill Lido after its lease to former operator Fusion Lifestyle ended when the company collapsed into administration in April, offering a glimmer of hope for those who want to see the historic lido restored.
Suffolk Constabulary and the county's Police and Crime Commissioner will host a public meeting in Martlesham on Wednesday, 21 October, giving residents the chance to question senior officers about local policing.
A long-vacant shop unit in the Buttermarket is set to be brought back into use next month as Ipswich Town prepares to open a new Planet Blue store in the former Superdry premises.
In 2021, inspectors found that Ipswich Hospital's maternity tower failed national design standards and that maternity services "required improvement". Five years on, midwives say almost nothing has changed, and a £98m plan to replace the building rests on a decision due within days.
Margaret Tempest drew the animals that lived in millions of childhood imaginations. But behind those gentle watercolours was a pioneering Ipswich artist, a passionate sailor and a decidedly ungentle literary feud.
Ipswich Town chairman and CEO Mark Ashton and superstar Ed Sheeran joined forces in New York to raise $1 million (~£750k) in a single evening for underprivileged children and young people across Suffolk.
Police say there is no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the death of a 20-year-old man found in the River Orwell near Stoke Bridge, as the investigation into the circumstances continues.
And it was rather grand, too.
A man wanted by police for multiple shop thefts across Ipswich was arrested on Carr Street on Friday, 16 October, after refusing to give officers his details, police said.
A man was arrested at Ipswich Police's Princes Street front desk on Friday, 16 October after turning up holding a screwdriver and a pool ball tied in a sock, police said.
A man has died following a collision on the A14's Orwell Bridge in the early hours of Friday, 16 October, with the road closed in both directions while investigations continue.
A common dolphin has been found dead in the River Orwell, a day after firefighters and marine rescuers cut it free from netting wrapped around its beak and fins.
Six fire engines are battling a large blaze engulfing the roofs of two semi-detached houses on Henniker Road, Ipswich, since the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning.
Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and a spectacular car chase have put Suffolk back on our TV screens. But with a new international film festival coming to Ipswich and a growing creative industry, could Ipswich become a bigger player in the world of film and TV?
A 20-year-old man from Ipswich has been given a suspended sentence after admitting to making and distributing indecent images of children, Ipswich Crown Court heard on Thursday, 8 October.
Residents now count the costs and look to the council's scrutiny committee to tell them what went wrong.
Noah Akhlak’s dad, Mal, has thanked Griff Rhys Jones for Happy Christmas Ipswich, saying the family is “extremely grateful” for the comedy and music show, which raises money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), where his 16-year-old son receives care.
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