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Remembrance Day: Ipswich to honour those who served
People across Ipswich are invited to mark Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph in Christchurch Park on 8 November 2026, with services on Armistice Day three days later.
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Citizens Advice Ipswich highlights free tools to manage money
As Citizens Advice Ipswich raises awareness of money support during Talk Money Week, the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is encouraging organisations to signpost free help.
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3,770 Ipswich homes outside £100 energy payment
Analysis of official council tax figures shows 3,770 properties in Ipswich are in bands E to H, putting them outside the government’s one-off £100 energy payment announced in last week’s Budget.
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Community staff nurses set to be saved after consultation
Suffolk County Council has revised its plans for children's health services to retain community staff nurses, after the proposal to axe the role became the biggest concern raised in a major public consultation. But Ipswich MP Jack Abbott remains "incredibly concerned" that cuts are still coming.
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Council insists housing repairs budget safe under £54.8m deal
Ipswich Borough Council says a new four-year contractor framework worth up to £54.8m will not lead to cuts in housing repairs or planned improvements, after Ipswich.co.uk asked about spending commitments, outstanding repairs and the condition of nearly 8,000 council homes.
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Ipswich International Film Festival opens with Halloween vampire classic
The first Ipswich International Film Festival (IIFF) opens at King Street Cinema on Saturday, 31 October, with a 35mm screening of cult classic Shadow of the Vampire, followed by a Q&A with the film's producer, Richard Johns.
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'Get out and meet people': Care home advice for students
Residents at an Ipswich care home have passed on their life lessons to Suffolk New College students, urging them to join a club, play sport, and get out and meet people.
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Suffolk's police commissioner rejects 'mega force'
Suffolk's police and crime commissioner has thrown his weight behind a merger with Norfolk, warning he would go "over my dead body" to stop Suffolk being swallowed into a larger eastern region alongside Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
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Ipswich Poundland store at risk as chain nears collapse
The Poundland store in Ipswich's Sailmakers centre could be at risk after the discount retailer's US owner moved towards appointing administrators, threatening thousands of jobs nationwide.
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Fire chief warns more funding needed to avoid Dunwich repeat
Suffolk's chief fire officer has told a Parliamentary committee that extra funding is needed to prevent another wildfire like the one that tore through Dunwich Heath in July.
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Ipswich mum swaps wealth management for garden design
Lucy Howard spent the early hours in her vegetable patch with “the robins and the sunrise” while struggling with postnatal depression. Now she has swapped wealth management for her own garden design business.
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Bikers raise £5,191 for Ipswich Hospital cancer care
Motorcyclists, volunteers, supporters and local businesses came together for the Richard Collins Charitable Ride, raising more than £5,000 to support patients receiving cancer treatment at Ipswich Hospital.