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Local journalism has traditionally struggled to engage young people. If we want to shape a town worth staying in, we need to start listening to the people who will inherit it.
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Just miles apart, children in different parts of Ipswich face different odds when it comes to dental health – and new data reveals a divide between neighbouring communities that mirrors a nationwide pattern of inequality.
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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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In Ipswich, friends Azita Ahmadi and Amy Falla are rallying knitters and crocheters to make blankets for Lighthouse Women's Aid and Suffolk Refugee Support. What began as a practical idea has become something more: bringing people together through the simple act of making something meaningful.
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When four book-loving business owners decided Ipswich deserved its own book festival, they didn't hold back, creating a three-day celebration with 43 events across 14 venues that launches this Friday.
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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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Chloe used to stay in bed all day with no energy. Now she trains new staff and works four days a week at an Ipswich café where people thrive.
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In 2012, Mandy Errington spotted something missing on Ipswich's high street – a boutique that offered truly individual, inspiring fashion. Rather than wait for someone else to fill the gap, she decided to do it herself, launching DJV Boutique.
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Sarah Battistetti works eighteen-hour days with no time off, has faced online abuse and personal attacks, and admits the pressure nearly destroyed her marriage. But in just over a year, she and husband Giulio turned "one of Ipswich's most troubled pubs" back into a thriving family venue.
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The moment Lily Hammond chose art over academia, she set herself on a path that would see her work lighting up the town centre and hanging alongside some of the biggest names in art at Christchurch Mansion. We share her journey.
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If you’re crafty or creative, or have a young person in your life who is, you’ll be delighted to discover that a new community arts studio has opened right in the centre of town.
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When brothers Rob and Will returned to Suffolk, having lost everything they'd spent years building in Swaziland, they could have been forgiven for playing it safe. Instead, they doubled down and created the UK's first aged sugar beet spirit.
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