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Citizens Advice Ipswich highlights free tools to manage money
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.
Nicola Sebastian
A Chantry girl who studied journalism at the University of East London before returning home to Ipswich and joining Ipswich.co.uk as its first full-time staff reporter.
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Ipswich International Film Festival opens with Halloween vampire classic
The first Ipswich International Film Festival (IIFF) opens at King Street Cinema on Saturday, 31 October, with a 35mm screening of cult classic Shadow of the Vampire, followed by a Q&A with the film's producer, Richard Johns.
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'Get out and meet people': Care home advice for students
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.
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Ipswich mum swaps wealth management for garden design
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.
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Bikers raise £5,191 for Ipswich Hospital cancer care
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.
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Anti-social drinking powers set for three-year extension
Ipswich Borough Council is set to decide whether to keep its powers to tackle anti-social drinking in public for another three years, after 60 of 61 consultation respondents backed the move.
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Discount retailer and supermarket to fill Carr Street shops
Two Carr Street shops have been let to new tenants, with national discount retailer Bargain World opening its first Suffolk store and an "independent supermarket" taking over the former Betfred unit.
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Free NHS health checks on offer at Ipswich Cornhill today
The Be Well Bus is on the Cornhill throughout today, Wednesday, 28 October 2026, offering free blood pressure, height, weight and BMI checks for anyone who visits.
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How Ipswich plans to spend £1.25m to tackle rough sleeping
Extra emergency beds this winter, a seven-day cap on stays, more Housing First support and CCTV in rough sleeping hot spots are among the measures in a new plan to tackle rough sleeping, which also sets out how Ipswich will use its share of the Government's £442m Rough Sleeping Programme.
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Repeat antisocial offenders face bans and treatment under Respect Orders
Police, councils and housing associations have a new tool to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour (ASB) after Respect Orders came into force this week.
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Pollution falls around Star Lane while two areas remain near legal limit
Ipswich Borough Council's executive will decide on Tuesday, 3 November, whether to revoke the air quality management area covering Star Lane and surrounding streets, after nitrogen dioxide levels stayed below the legal limit for three years - but two other parts of town remain close to it.
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Sizewell C apprentice numbers pass 150 milestone
Sizewell C now has 166 apprentices, 111 of them from Suffolk - putting the nuclear power station past 10% of its pledge to recruit at least 1,500 apprentices during construction.