Affinia expands Ipswich office with 10 new tax specialists
Accountancy firm Affinia has recruited 10 senior tax specialists into its East Anglia business, strengthening corporate and personal tax expertise at its Ipswich office.
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GB star Dan Bewley signs for Ipswich Witches
Great Britain speedway star Dan Bewley has signed for Ipswich's Tru7 Group Witches for 2027, ending a nine-year spell at Belle Vue.
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'Cowboys playing with people's lives', says Suffolk nurse
A family nurse of ten years has accused Suffolk County Council of being "cowboys playing with people's lives" over controversial changes to children's services, amid confusion over whether staff jobs are safe.
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Police appeal after cyclist, 78, dies weeks after Felixstowe Road crash
A 78-year-old cyclist has died, three weeks after a collision with a car on the A1156 Felixstowe Road near Trinity Park.
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Man, 27, arrested after alleged rape in Ipswich park
A 27-year-old man has been arrested and bailed after a woman in her 20s reported being raped at Westbourne Park, off Bramford Lane, on Tuesday, 3 November.
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Government backs independent journalism in Ipswich
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.
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Staff nurses demand clarity after Suffolk's 'political spin' row
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."
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Party leaders round on Hudson over AI image row
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.
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Hudson stripped of cabinet role amid Mummery deepfake row
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.
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All roads lead to one Suffolk council...unless county leader finds another
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.
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Suffolk's police commissioner rejects 'mega force'
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.
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Ipswich Poundland store at risk as chain nears collapse
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.