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Suffolk fly-tipping cases top 4,000 as government plans tougher fines
Suffolk councils recorded 4,144 fly-tipping incidents last year, but issued just 54 fines, as the Government prepares to raise maximum penalties by 400% to £5,000.
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New playground put to the test by Ipswich Prep School pupils
Pupils at Ipswich Prep School spent their first day back this term climbing, balancing and exploring a brand-new playground, officially opened by the Mayor of Ipswich in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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Exclusive: The demolition of Debenhams
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.
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Council's bagged waste crackdown cuts town centre mess by two-thirds
Weeks after Ipswich.co.uk highlighted bin bags piling up outside town centre shops, the council says enforcement action has cut the number left out on the street each week from 84 to 29.
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Bramford man jailed for six years over drug dealing
A 25-year-old man has been jailed for six years and a woman given a suspended sentence after Suffolk Police uncovered a drugs operation at a house in Bramford.
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Suffolk completes 141km road surface dressing programme
Suffolk Highways has finished this year's surface dressing programme, treating 86 sites and more than 750,000 square metres of road between June and August.
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'I'm not sorry, and I'd leak it again' – Conservative councillor Ian Fisher speaks out
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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Suffolk's 'pothole crisis,' and Reform's 'war' to fix it
Potholes are reported to cost UK drivers an estimated £1.48bn a year and have been linked to thousands of road casualties. Suffolk County Council believes a new piece of machinery and a wider change in how it works could help turn the tide on its own backlog.
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Police appeal to find missing Ipswich man, Gino Silva
Suffolk police are asking for the public's help to trace Gino Silva, a 26-year-old from Ipswich who was reported missing on Sunday, 30 August.
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Ipswich accountancy firm Ensors rebrands as Azets
Ensors has officially become Azets from Tuesday, 1 September, completing the rebrand of the East Anglian firm a year after it was acquired by the international advisory group.
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Greens slam axed Ipswich e-bike hire scheme as 'backward'
The Green group at Suffolk County Council has accused the ruling administration of "ignorance" or an "ideology against cycling" after plans for an e-bike hire scheme in Ipswich were shelved over safety concerns.
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Crash survivor who broke his spine takes on charity trek for the crew who saved him
Four years after a motorbike collision left him with a broken spine, Pedro Santos, 45, is trekking 2.4 miles in Cambridge this month to raise money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance crew who flew him to hospital.