Ipswich council risks giving a signal that the town is closed for business if it goes ahead with closing the Tourist Information Centre in St Stephen’s church, the union representing staff working there has warned.
A teenage murderer and two other boys who helped him hide from justice have reappeared in court to be sentenced for their roles in a drug dealing syndicate.
Police have been called to an Ipswich care facility for vulnerable adults hundreds of times in just 18 months, it is claimed, with neighbours complaining of constant disturbances.
Plans to open up the entrance of Ipswich Waterfront as part of a long term ambition for the site have taken a step closer, while pictures inside a derelict historic building there have surfaced for the first time showing the bleak state of disrepair.
As a new building opens at Copleston High School and demolition work continues on the old building, today we are looking back at the school over the years.
The former Toys R Us store at the Interchange Retail Park at Copdock Mill has been bought by Ipswich council’s property company – and could soon have a new use.
A Suffolk councillor who said on Twitter that she would never wear a face mask has now changed her mind after Boris Johnson suggested that legislation is now being drawn up to make them compulsory in shops.
Ipswich’s sailing barge Victor set sail on its first outing along the River Orwell since the coronavirus lockdown – to the delight of people based at the town port.
The National Trust is starting to reopen some of its properties to the public – but at present there is no reopening date for any houses or museums in Suffolk.
Issues such as home schooling, special educational needs and school transport have prompted fresh calls for a dedicated council committee scrutinising education issues.
Cinema and live entertainment is heading outdoors this summer. Drive-in is the new night-out and across Suffolk and East Anglia a new type of open-air festival is being staged that people have fun time after months of being shut in and locked down.
Nearly 98% of Intercity trains between East Anglia and London ran on time during June for travellers making essential journeys according to new figures from Greater Anglia.
A firm specialising in helping businesses to expand into new markets has seen a dramatic rise in “traditional” retailers and wholesalers turning to online sales.
Ipswich council risks giving a signal that the town is closed for business if it goes ahead with closing the Tourist Information Centre in St Stephen’s church, the union representing staff working there has warned.
Police have been called to an Ipswich care facility for vulnerable adults hundreds of times in just 18 months, it is claimed, with neighbours complaining of constant disturbances.
The former Toys R Us store at the Interchange Retail Park at Copdock Mill has been bought by Ipswich council’s property company – and could soon have a new use.
A teenage murderer and two other boys who helped him hide from justice have reappeared in court to be sentenced for their roles in a drug dealing syndicate.
Plans to open up the entrance of Ipswich Waterfront as part of a long term ambition for the site have taken a step closer, while pictures inside a derelict historic building there have surfaced for the first time showing the bleak state of disrepair.
Politics in the UK is starting to feel increasingly “normal” as political gaffes and infighting within parties start to feature more and more in the life of the country.
I’ve never disguised the fact that I feel that the proposed Sizewell C power station would be a disaster for East Suffolk and would effectively destroy the most important part of the county’s Heritage Coast.
I should be preparing to go on holiday today – we were supposed to be heading off for a week in Devon tomorrow but the coronavirus got in the way and instead we’re having a forced staycation, writes Paul Geater.
The re-opening of town centres this week appears to have gone very well in both Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds – and some of the smaller towns in the area have also been seeing shoppers return.
As a middle-aged, middle-class, white man, it is perhaps presumptuous for me to offer any kind of opinion on the state of race relations after the Black Lives Matter protests of the weekend.
Many people have long since given up on the idea of MPs setting any kind of good example to the country, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the comedy scenes we saw this week of them queuing up to disenfranchise MPs who are ill and find new ways of spreading Covid-19 among themselves.
Dominic Cummings is an arrogant, out-of-touch fool who should have apologised to the country and handed in his resignation to the Prime Minister by 10am on Saturday morning.
Over the last week or so, something has definitely shifted in the national approach to coronavirus, life, and the determination to look beyond the current crisis towards whatever we are going to eventually come to accept as the “new normal.”
