The US investment firm that bought Poundland for £1 last year has been accused by MPs of "predatory capitalism" after rejecting a fully funded, solvent offer for the chain – leaving the future of its Ipswich store, and roughly 12,000 jobs nationwide, hanging in the balance.
Two derelict Victorian blocks at the former Cranfield Mill site could soon be demolished to make way for long-awaited repairs to The Mill. We asked the people who live, work and walk on the Ipswich waterfront what they think, and the consensus was: but what comes next?
Ipswich.co.uk has been awarded £114,100 from the Government's £6 million Local News Fund, one of 50 local news providers backed across England and Wales. Here is what it means for us, this town, and the businesses that already make our journalism free to read.
A new programme of free workshops will help young women aged 16-25 build confidence and develop new skills, with the first session taking place at CHIp Studios on Saturday, 14 November 2026.
Ipswich Town's Sindre Walle Egeli was among the first guests at a new Mediterranean restaurant on the Ipswich Waterfront, which was busier than expected on its opening night.
Midgar Coffee always said there would only ever be one. Now the Bury St Edmunds coffee house is opening a second site on the Ipswich Waterfront, filling the former Paddy & Scott's Coffee Shop, and hoping to set down roots in the town.
A Suffolk County Council staff nurse has urged the authority to come clean about whether jobs are truly safe, branding this week's U-turn announcement "political spin."
Suffolk County Council has removed Reform UK councillor Christopher Hudson from his cabinet role as highways chief, hours after a backlash over an AI-generated image of a fellow councillor and a string of sexual comments attributed to his X account.
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.
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Developer Galliard Homes has confirmed that the pedestrian and cycle link between Merchants Yard and the Princes Street bridge is expected to open to the public in January 2027. As Ipswich.co.uk reported in July, the link had never opened, despite its ramp being finished in 2024.
Labour, Conservative and Green politicians have challenged Suffolk County Council leader Michael Hadwen to go further after Christopher Hudson was stripped of his cabinet role over a "sexualised" AI-generated image of a fellow councillor.
Suffolk County Council has removed Reform UK councillor Christopher Hudson from his cabinet role as highways chief, hours after a backlash over an AI-generated image of a fellow councillor and a string of sexual comments attributed to his X account.
The family of Joel Sousa, who died on the Orwell Bridge on 16 October, has remembered him as "a gentle, quiet and respectful young man" as they appeal for help to give him the farewell he deserves.
Shot down over France, captured twice and forced to flee across occupied Europe, Ipswich pilot Ronald Hawkins survived one of the most extraordinary escapes of the Second World War. He returned home a decorated hero, but his determination to fly again would ultimately cost him his life.
Dougie Williamson has hit his century – but for the Ipswich & District Indoor Bowls Club member, turning 100 has certainly not meant packing away his bowls.
Ipswich County Library is in line for its first major refurbishment in 40 years, with a café, a digital learning hub in a revamp costing nearly £900,000
Suffolk County Council is forecasting a £109.3m overspend on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) this year – even as the government prepares to wipe out most of its historic SEND deficit.
As Citizens Advice Ipswich raises awareness of money support during Talk Money Week, the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is encouraging organisations to signpost free help.
Analysis of official council tax figures shows 3,770 properties in Ipswich are in bands E to H, putting them outside the government’s one-off £100 energy payment announced in last week’s Budget.
Suffolk County Council has revised its plans for children's health services to retain community staff nurses, after the proposal to axe the role became the biggest concern raised in a major public consultation. But Ipswich MP Jack Abbott remains "incredibly concerned" that cuts are still coming.
Ipswich Borough Council says a new four-year contractor framework worth up to £54.8m will not lead to cuts in housing repairs or planned improvements, after Ipswich.co.uk asked about spending commitments, outstanding repairs and the condition of nearly 8,000 council homes.
An Ipswich father of two, killed in the trenches in 1915, is finally to receive a military funeral after his remains were identified through DNA. But behind the remarkable discovery lies the story of a family that suffered more than its share of heartbreak.
Christchurch Park is one of Ipswich's most treasured places, but in the 1890s, as the estate was being sold off for housing, the Tudor mansion faced an uncertain future. Read about Daniel Defoe, 200 ships in harbour at once, and a referendum where folk from Ipswich voted against saving the site.
In 1909, Ipswich Museum acquired a giraffe standing nearly 17 feet tall. There was just one small problem. The railway bridges weren't high enough. What followed was a feat of Edwardian ingenuity, an inspector who wisely refused to become a jockey, and a rather secretive team of glaziers.
Residents at an Ipswich care home have passed on their life lessons to Suffolk New College students, urging them to join a club, play sport, and get out and meet people.
Suffolk's two-tier system is almost certainly finished, and a single county-wide authority is the likeliest replacement. But the county council's leader is not ready to accept that the choice is limited to the two business cases already sitting on ministers' desks.
Suffolk's police and crime commissioner has thrown his weight behind a merger with Norfolk, warning he would go "over my dead body" to stop Suffolk being swallowed into a larger eastern region alongside Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
The Poundland store in Ipswich's Sailmakers centre could be at risk after the discount retailer's US owner moved towards appointing administrators, threatening thousands of jobs nationwide.
He wrote some of Britain’s best-loved songs, entertained troops during the Second World War and died in Ipswich. Decades later came the extraordinary discovery that he had secretly won two Olympic gold medals – except he had not.
Suffolk's chief fire officer has told a Parliamentary committee that extra funding is needed to prevent another wildfire like the one that tore through Dunwich Heath in July.
Lucy Howard spent the early hours in her vegetable patch with “the robins and the sunrise” while struggling with postnatal depression. Now she has swapped wealth management for her own garden design business.
Motorcyclists, volunteers, supporters and local businesses came together for the Richard Collins Charitable Ride, raising more than £5,000 to support patients receiving cancer treatment at Ipswich Hospital.
Nearly half of adults across Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk believe money given by parents or grandparents should be judged on a case-by-case basis if family circumstances change, according to new research.
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