Stop the doomscrolling, positive vibes only. Here's everything good that's going on in our town.
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Students and staff at the University of Suffolk got their first look at a newly refurbished library in the Waterfront Building last week, as the space was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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Inspired by his fiancée's work as a children's hospice nurse, Ipswich PE teacher Olly Page is running 200 kilometres from Brighton to Ipswich to raise £5,000 for East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH).
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When a 75-year-old man collapsed at a University of Suffolk café last month, a dental hygiene student's cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training proved its worth, stepping in before paramedics arrived and showing why the life-saving skill matters.
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Students and staff at Suffolk New College took part in quizzes, bookshop tours, and creative writing sessions yesterday as the English department staged its most ambitious World Book Day celebration to date.
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Construction has started on a significant expansion of The Treehouse, East Anglia's Children's Hospices' (EACH) site in Ipswich, after a 'spade-in-the-ground' celebration was held on Tuesday, 3 March to mark the official start of works.
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Around 20 esports students at Suffolk New College raised money for Special Effect, a charity that uses technology to help people with physical disabilities play video games, through a live-streamed gaming event that attracted nearly 16,000 online engagements.
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A new exhibition exploring the lives, achievements and challenges of disabled people in Suffolk opens at The Hold in Ipswich on Thursday, 27 February 2026.
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More than 50 University of Suffolk paramedic students are performing continuous CPR for 24 hours to demonstrate that using the yellow and green defibrillator boxes found across Ipswich is straightforward, with the ambulance service providing step-by-step guidance to anyone who calls 999.
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For parents who have spent time on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, starting school can feel like another daunting milestone – but an Ipswich-based trust is working to change that, becoming the first Multi-Academy Trust in the UK to achieve 'Prem Aware' status across all 16 of its schools.
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In his most vulnerable show yet, award-winning poet Luke Wright explores what it means to piece together a sense of self from incomplete stories when Later Life Letter comes to the New Wolsey Theatre on Thursday, 26 February 2026.
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Work has started on Ipswich Borough Council's Town Centre Greening project, which will introduce trees and planting across four streets between the town centre and waterfront.
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Over 100 works by John Constable will go on display at Christchurch Mansion from 28 March, revealing the people and places that shaped the legendary artist's career in a major exhibition marking 250 years since his birth.