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A 41-year-old man from Ipswich has been handed an extended 18-year sentence after a jury found him guilty of seven child sex offences against two young girls, following a five-day trial.
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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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Conservative and Labour councillors are calling for East Suffolk Council to offer residents a Council Tax discount worth £382,000, after what they describe as a "chaotic" rollout of the authority's new recycling scheme.
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Council leader Neil MacDonald recently said that Ipswich was seeing "real, visible progress" in creating "a town centre people are proud of." Yet the main entrance to its own Grade II-listed Corn Exchange remains broken and boarded up, and the council won't say if or when it will be fixed.
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Police dive teams have recovered the body of a child from Decoy Pond in Brantham this afternoon, Wednesday, 16 September, during the search for missing three-year-old Noah Woods.
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A senior Ipswich councillor wants the Government to compensate residents for money spent preparing for local government reorganisation, after ministers axed the reforms.
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Police are continuing to search for three-year-old Noah Woods, who went missing in Brantham yesterday afternoon.
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A Suffolk New College lecturer from Kesgrave, who has already completed 58 marathons and raised around £100k for charity, is taking on his toughest challenge yet – 13 half-marathons in 13 days – after being inspired by a fellow runner who completed the London Marathon carrying a fridge on his back.
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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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Bauder has completed a comprehensive refurbishment of its UK headquarters on Landseer Road, delivered by Ipswich firm Gipping Construction, as the company continues to invest in its home town.
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Six months after reporting a broken window, a Pipers Court resident says she has been left to face the cold with no fix in sight – the latest in a string of promises made then quietly dropped by the for-profit provider of affordable housing, Oak Housing.
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A team of more than 30 riders will set off from Southampton on Tuesday, 22 September, cycling 400 miles over five days to Ipswich Rugby Club in support of local plumber Ryan Horsfall, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) late last year.
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