East Suffolk councillors were given three clear working days to work through a comprehensive rewrite of how planning decisions are made across the district. One of them is now calling on the council to defer the decision until next month and for the leader to stand aside.
As the government unveils specialist rape courts for every crown court in England and Wales, Ipswich-based Survivors in Transition says the reforms matter – but warns they must not become a "surface" fix while survivors face years-long waits and just 3.4% of reported rapes result in a charge.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed four times in New Cut West on Friday evening, leading to the arrest of four teenagers.
The New Wolsey Theatre has been nominated for three prizes at the UK Theatre Awards 2026, recognising work across its musical productions, regional touring partnerships and support for new writing by East Anglian artists.
Ipswich residents and businesses are being asked to share their ideas for the future of Waterloo House, the former Debenhams building, after Ipswich Borough Council completed its purchase of the long-vacant site.
Museum of the Environment (MOTE) will host the East Anglian Photography Awards on Friday, 9 October, showcasing 120 shortlisted photographs from more than 500 entries submitted across the region.
Jack Abbott has welcomed new Government legislation that will end a £7,000 compensation shortfall for the bereaved families of asbestos and dust-disease victims.
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.
Every Ipswich landline starts with 01473. From today, so does the town's only youth-led media brand. Launched in partnership with Suffolk New College, edited by a 23-year-old from Chantry, and written entirely by and for 16-29-year-olds, 1473 is setting out to define the culture of young Ipswich.
Suffolk County Council leader Michael Hadwen says the collapse of Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) in Suffolk will be the turning point in his relationship with Ipswich, as a clearer picture emerges of just how far the government has retreated and what comes next.
Ipswich Borough Council announced a start date for its long-delayed Lloyds Avenue redevelopment on the same day it confirmed it had purchased and would demolish the former Debenhams building. We ask: should the two schemes share one masterplan, rather than proceed separately?
In mid-July, around 15,000 Sunni Muslims packed into a private religious gathering at a country estate near the tiny Suffolk village of Barham. A major incident was declared following an alleged terror threat. Taxpayers are believed to have footed the bill, but police won't say how much it is.
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.
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Ipswich Borough Council has cancelled plans to pressure wash the pedestrianised town centre during next week's Big Clean, citing a hosepipe ban that Anglian Water confirms does not apply to it.
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.
Conservative and Labour councillors are calling for East Suffolk Council to offer residents a Council Tax discount worth £382,000, after what they describe as a "chaotic" rollout of the authority's new recycling scheme.
Council leader Neil MacDonald recently said that Ipswich was seeing "real, visible progress" in creating "a town centre people are proud of." Yet the main entrance to its own Grade II-listed Corn Exchange remains broken and boarded up, and the council won't say if or when it will be fixed.
Police dive teams have recovered the body of a child from Decoy Pond in Brantham this afternoon, Wednesday, 16 September, during the search for missing three-year-old Noah Woods.
A senior Ipswich councillor wants the Government to compensate residents for money spent preparing for local government reorganisation, after ministers axed the reforms.
Every Ipswich landline starts with 01473. From today, so does the town's only youth-led media brand. Launched in partnership with Suffolk New College, edited by a 23-year-old from Chantry, and written entirely by and for 16-29-year-olds, 1473 is setting out to define the culture of young Ipswich.
Police are continuing to search for three-year-old Noah Woods, who went missing in Brantham yesterday afternoon.
A Suffolk New College lecturer from Kesgrave, who has already completed 58 marathons and raised around £100k for charity, is taking on his toughest challenge yet – 13 half-marathons in 13 days – after being inspired by a fellow runner who completed the London Marathon carrying a fridge on his back.
Businesses, residents, the council and police will spend five days scrubbing, sweeping, pressure washing and fining their way across Ipswich town centre from Monday. Ipswich Central, the town's BID, says the campaign is about pride, not blame – but the real test is what happens next.
Bauder has completed a comprehensive refurbishment of its UK headquarters on Landseer Road, delivered by Ipswich firm Gipping Construction, as the company continues to invest in its home town.
Six months after reporting a broken window, a Pipers Court resident says she has been left to face the cold with no fix in sight – the latest in a string of promises made then quietly dropped by the for-profit provider of affordable housing, Oak Housing.
A team of more than 30 riders will set off from Southampton on Tuesday, 22 September, cycling 400 miles over five days to Ipswich Rugby Club in support of local plumber Ryan Horsfall, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) late last year.
Suffolk Police are appealing for help to trace a missing 16-year-old boy from Ipswich, with officers concerned for his welfare.
Ivan Ambrose has not left his home in years. His only weekly in-person contact is with family members – and, on occasion, a close friend. That is partly because adult autism support in Ipswich disappears once someone turns 25 – something Ivan is now campaigning to change.
The BAFTA-winning producer behind Peaky Blinders and Billy Elliot, Greg Brenman, has been named Chair of DanceEast, as the Ipswich charity welcomes three new trustees to its board.
Fourteen Suffolk businesses swapped the office for Trinity Park this year, taking on egg and spoon races, a rodeo bull and a straw-and-sticky-tape bridge-building contest to raise over £10,000 for Home-Start Suffolk.
Hundreds of runners and walkers filled Christchurch Park with colour on Saturday, 12 September, as Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity's Colour Run returned to Ipswich.
Ipswich's Woodbridge Road Hippodrome was the underdog of our entertainment past, and while it quietly vanished away, on the other end of town, the St Nicholas Street Hippodrome continued as a dazzling headliner – the one with the star architect, big stage, crowds and glamour.
More than two years after it was first commissioned, Ipswich Borough Council has finally revealed its new place brand for the town, built around the strapline "Ipswich, the home of opportunity."
Ipswich Borough Council is installing removable bollards on Carr Street, Tower Street, Westgate Street and Queen Street to stop drivers ignoring the town centre's existing daytime vehicle restrictions.
A solution to Ipswich's reliance on a single crossing of the River Orwell could cost more than £1bn and not be finished until at least 2039 at the earliest, according to a Suffolk County Council report going before Cabinet on Thursday, 17 September.
A £7.8m overspend sounds modest against an £850m budget, but it comes as Suffolk County Council's financial safety net is forecast to more than halve this year, leaving less room to absorb future shocks.
Just two months after bin chutes overflowed in the sweltering summer heat, the halls of Pipers Court are now flooding, as heavy rain exposed fresh problems at the Ipswich block, with standing water reaching residents' front doors.
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