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Ilona Kocheva's childhood dream was to become a PE teacher specialising in basketball. Thirteen years on, the former player has opened her own massage studio on Ipswich High Street, drawing on a sporting background that shapes every treatment she offers.
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When Ipswich.co.uk first visited Pipers Court in April, we found black mould, broken tiles, blood-stained lights and "cleaning in progress" signs lining the dirtiest corridors. Two months later, with fly-infested bin liners stacking up inside, frustrated residents tell us little has improved.
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Suffolk County Council has filed a judicial review claim against the Secretary of State over local government reorganisation. The legal arguments are now known, but the threshold is high, and even a successful outcome may not deliver what the council is seeking. We explain all.
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Ipswich enters the summer of 2026 with an empty lido it cannot yet fund, an ageing main pool it plans to demolish, and a £38m replacement that its own council will not exist long enough to build. We ask: where will Ipswich swim?
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This month, Women's Health Hope — the Ipswich charity founded by Monica Thomas — announces the launch of Suffolk's first Women's Health Support Hub. A milestone that follows years of campaigning and one woman's determination to turn her own health journey into something that helps others.
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The council appears to be pursuing a judicial review of the Government's local government reorganisation plans, but with a legal deadline that falls before its cabinet meeting on 29 June, residents and councillors still don't know if a claim has been filed, on what grounds, or at what cost.
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Ipswich has seven weeks to submit the most consequential piece of work this town has produced in years. We think the council has made an unnecessary decision that risks undermining one of its most important assets, so we have said so directly to its CEO, Helen Pluck, in an open letter.
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Seven weeks. Four shortlist places. One shot. Here is the inside scoop on Ipswich's City of Culture 2029 bid, and the people and decisions that will define it.
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This week, independent news outlets across the UK are making the case for their survival. Here is ours. Please give it a read.
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Ipswich Borough Council is legally required to begin writing a new blueprint for the town's future development, but the authority doing the writing may not exist by the time it's finished. It's one of the more peculiar and consequential paradoxes thrown up by local government reorganisation.
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When a 15-year-old boy with severe epilepsy was beaten by a large group of his peers in an Ipswich park, his mother expected the police to act. What followed, she says, has left her son feeling more unsafe than ever.
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Remmy Ajadi has spent nearly three decades in sales and business. But it was a dream and a growing unease about what social media was doing to his sons that pushed him to build something different.
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