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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.
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Police are continuing to search for three-year-old Noah Woods, who went missing in Brantham yesterday afternoon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Suffolk Police are appealing for help to trace a missing 16-year-old boy from Ipswich, with officers concerned for his welfare.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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