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'Incredible honour': Ipswich audiologist wins national recognition
Karen Finch, who has dedicated her career to ensuring people across the UK receive the best hearing care, has been recognised for her outstanding contribution to audiology.
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Sweet Treat Food Festival – university dream to Cornhill crowd-pleaser
With a sense of awe, Jessica Lee surveys the crowds filling Ipswich's Cornhill.
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Ipswich Sports Club to build four new padel courts in £340k investment
Ipswich Sports Club has announced plans to expand its padel facilities with a £340,000 investment that will see four state-of-the-art panoramic courts built, three of which will be covered.
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Ipswich unemployment falls 9% in a year, faster than UK
Ipswich unemployment is falling twice as fast as the national average – but the town still has one of the highest jobless rates in the East of England.
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Ipswich firms face cyber threat as Windows 10 support ends
The email looks routine enough. A supplier invoice, perhaps, or a customer query. But for businesses still running Windows 10 after Tuesday, 14 October, that single click could be the moment everything changes – and not in a good way.
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Local law firm wins trio of national awards
Attwells Solicitors has secured three major national honours this week, including a regional apprenticeship award, a Legal 500 ranking, and shortlisting in the Modern Law Conveyancing Awards.
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Sizewell C funds programme for underrepresented youth
Sizewell C has funded a two-year programme designed to support young people from underrepresented communities across Suffolk into careers.
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Family interiors firm wins nationwide Lucy & Yak fashion rollout
Source One Consulting, a family-run commercial interiors firm in Ipswich, has won a nationwide contract to deliver stores for sustainable fashion brand Lucy & Yak after converting a listed building into a retail space in just five weeks.
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College students work on Jimmy Doherty's ITV show
Media students from Suffolk New College have been given the opportunity to work on the set of Jimmy and Shivi's Farmhouse Breakfast thanks to a partnership between the college, Jimmy Doherty and Rock Oyster Media.
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Suffolk tech giant pledges $10m to give charities free software for life
Halo, one of the UK's biggest tech firms based in Stowmarket, has launched a $10m (£7.4m) scheme offering charities free software for life, aiming to stop millions being diverted from frontline services to licence fees.
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Can Ipswich cash in on the AI gold rush?
Ipswich has always had a knack for being quietly ahead of its time. In 1902, using the spirit of those relentlessly inventive and industrious Victorians, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies built the world's first commercially available petrol-powered lawnmower. Cutting-hedge technology, you could say.
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Ellisons appoints newly qualified solicitor to Ipswich team
Ellisons has announced the qualification of Simone Dowsing as a solicitor into its Wills, Trusts and Probate team, based in the firm's Ipswich office.