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Ipswich Big Clean litter pick collects 30 bags of rubbish
Volunteers picked more than 30 bags of rubbish from Ipswich town centre on Monday 21 September, as Ipswich Central's Big Clean week got under way.
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Ipswich Central is the Business Improvement District (BID) for the town centre, waterfront, and 'Connected Town' area.
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Council scraps plans to wash streets during next week's Big Clean
Ipswich Borough Council has cancelled plans to pressure wash the pedestrianised town centre during next week's Big Clean, citing a hosepipe ban that Anglian Water confirms does not apply to it.
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'Action not words': Ipswich's Big Clean starts on Monday
Businesses, residents, the council and police will spend five days scrubbing, sweeping, pressure washing and fining their way across Ipswich town centre from Monday. Ipswich Central, the town's BID, says the campaign is about pride, not blame – but the real test is what happens next.
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Local artist's ITFC mural unveiled on Princes Street
A design inspired by club legends, local diversity and a Dara O'Shea quote has been brought to life by supporter and artist Bradley Lloyd, after thousands of fans backed his vision for Ipswich Town's new community mural.
Long Reads
The state of our streets: Ipswich's biggest small problems
Illegally parked cars, litter, seed husks, bird mess, unexplainable stains, bins left out all day, street drinking – none of these alone is Ipswich's biggest problem. Collectively, encountered every day – by every visitor on nearly every street in the town centre – they have become just that.
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Young Ipswich artists invited to follow in Constable's footsteps
A new art trail and drawing competition is inviting the town's young artists, from toddlers to teenagers, to create their own Constable-inspired landscapes while The Hay Wain hangs in Christchurch Mansion.
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Ipswich Town's commercial chief joins Ipswich Central board
Andrew Wood, Chief Revenue Officer at Ipswich Town Football Club, has been appointed to the Board of Directors at Ipswich Central, the Business Improvement District (BID) for Ipswich town centre and waterfront.
Opinion
City of culture or not, culture is at the heart of our regeneration story
Lee Walker, Ipswich Central CEO and the person who first proposed the funding model behind Ipswich's culture strategy, responds to our earlier feature, arguing the real question is whether Ipswich believes culture can drive its economy, with or without the City of Culture title.
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Council names chairs for £40m Pride in Place fund
Ipswich Borough Council has appointed Lee Walker and Jess March as chairs of the new Pride in Place Neighbourhood Boards for Stoke Park and Whitehouse, following a recruitment process.
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Ipswich businesses back BID for another five years
Ipswich businesses have voted overwhelmingly to renew the Ipswich Central Business Improvement District (BID), securing a fresh five-year mandate to continue town centre investment until 2032.
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Council votes to back Ipswich Central in BID ballot
Ipswich Borough Council has voted to support the renewal of the town centre Business Improvement District, backing a fifth consecutive five-year term that would see Ipswich Central manage a £4.6m programme of town centre investment between 2027 and 2032.
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Ipswich alcohol order consultation to launch next week
Ipswich Borough Council has agreed to launch a public consultation on extending the borough-wide order that gives officers the power to tackle alcohol-related anti-social behaviour in public spaces, with views being sought from 23 June.