Musictakeaway, a Norfolk-based vinyl specialist, is set to open its first Suffolk store at 4 St Nicholas Street, taking on a Grade II listed building previously home to a travel agency for over 10 years.
Suffolk County Council says 648 new school and SEND places are available for children and young people this academic year, including 243 specialist SEND places funded by an £8.6 million investment, with 87 of those SEND places in Ipswich.
When Ian Spilling died in May, his wife's colleagues at Bluebird Lodge rallied around her, and together they are now building something that will outlast their grief.
The government's abrupt decision to abandon local government reorganisation (LGR) in Suffolk and Norfolk marks one of the most significant reversals in English local governance for a decade.
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.
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 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.
The government's abrupt decision to abandon local government reorganisation (LGR) in Suffolk and Norfolk marks one of the most significant reversals in English local governance for a decade.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
The Buttermarket reopened at 08:00 today, Thursday, 3 September, following a closure caused by a burst water main.
Parts of The Buttermarket remain without power days after a burst water main forced the Ipswich shopping centre to close.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jack Abbott has criticised rogue builders for leaving "heartbroken families" to "pick up the pieces," as the Government announces tighter regulation of traders and bailiffs.
Suffolk Rural's equine centre has received a letter from the Princess Royal congratulating it on 20 years of training learners, as the facility also welcomes new horses and invests in improved facilities.
A man has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a man in Bromeswell, near Woodbridge.
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