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Staff at a Suffolk children's hospice gave up their own Christmas to care for a family facing the unthinkable. This summer, Jason Wilkins and his son Ned are taking on a muddy obstacle course to say thank you.
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'Constable: A Cast of Characters' marks 250 years since the artist's birth with over 100 works on display at Christchurch Mansion, running until 14 June. It is, in the best possible way, not really about the paintings.
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On paper, the numbers look manageable. But those working with young people across Suffolk say the figures only tell part of the story, and that for every young person in treatment, many more are going unseen.
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Emma Adams was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023. Since meeting Mandeep Birdy in 2025, the two have been working to solve a problem that nearly broke her: the loneliness of having cancer in a world that does not know what to do with it.
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When Sam Knibbs received a stage four cancer diagnosis on his birthday, he was sitting in his campervan with his wife, enjoying the world around him. Two years on, he is preparing to run 26.2 miles through London — not despite everything he has been through, but because of it.
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Ipswich Borough Council is set to adopt a new 10-year strategy to protect and enhance the town's natural environment – and it wants residents to help deliver it.
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When Suffolk County Council voted unanimously to launch a campaign supporting sexual assault survivors, three of the councillors who stood up to speak did so from their own experience.
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The former Yates pub on Tower Street stood empty for years before Sandeep Singh spent two years and £2m bringing it back to life as a food hall. Now it has closed, and Singh is taking his concept somewhere that he believes is ready for it, and wants it.
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A Romanian supermarket on the Buttermarket has been ordered to close after police seized illicit alcohol, tobacco and prescription-only medication – but many locals may be asking why the closure is temporary. Here is what the law actually allows.
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More people are visiting Ipswich town centre than at any point since just before the pandemic. But behind the headline figure lies a more complex story of shifting habits, squeezed spending power, and fundamental questions about what the high street is really for.
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Most children grow up knowing what a doctor or nurse does, but what about the professionals who zap tumours, analyse X-rays, or keep feet healthy? One Ipswich radiographer is on a mission to change that, one picture book at a time.
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The government has unveiled its most ambitious overhaul of the special educational needs and disabilities system in a generation, but for the thousands of families in Suffolk already navigating a system under severe strain, the practical changes remain some years away.
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