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Couple launch smoked meat business after impressing at family BBQs

Tim and Francesca Cresswell with their son Bertie, also known as "chief brownie tester".

Sophie Barnett

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A husband and wife team have turned their love of cooking smoked meats and sweet treats into a home-delivery business after years of impressing at BBQs.
Mature woman using credit card making online payment at home. Successful old woman doing online shop

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Opinion: Credit cards can become financial nicotine

Peter Sharkey

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A Suffolk MP has called for "appropriate development" to help fix the county's affordable housing problems. 

'Appropriate development' needed to fix affordable housing crisis, MP says

Angus Williams

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Steve Brown says he is unable to hire staff as his business seeks to expand

Boss blames furlough scheme for hiring woes

Angus Williams

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The Pizza Hut restaurant in Anglia Retail Park, where Tim Hortons look to open a restaurant

Tim Hortons restaurant in Ipswich given green light

Oliver Sullivan

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Lorry crushed by container at Felixstowe port

Lorry 'not seen' by crane operator in container crush, port say

Angus Williams

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Masks, gloves and protective glasses are worn whilst making alterations to clothing Picture: CHARLO

Coes suit sales 'bucking the trend' as high street chains suffer

Angus Williams

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Leyla Edwards owner of The club Ipswich Picture: CHARLOTTE BOND

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'Truly devastating blow' for businesses as Freedom Day pushed back

Matthew Earth

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File photo dated 04/07/2020 of member of staff in PPE waiting to serve drinkers at the reopening of

Frustration as freedom day delay fears escalate

Angus Williams

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Chris Sharman, owner of Dough & co. Picture: Sarah Lucy Brown

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First look: See inside new pizza restaurant opening at Cardinal Park

Sophie Barnett

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Families eligable for free school meals have been left waiting for vouchers to use for food from sup

Could Russian competitor to Aldi and Lidl open Ipswich store?

Oliver Sullivan

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Older married couple carrying packed boxes from a removal van towards their new home

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Opinion: Data, not dates, fuels property market

Peter Sharkey

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Energy experts say East Anglia can lead the way to making the UK a net-zero emitter by 2050.

East Anglia can lead the way to net-zero by 2050, experts say

Angus Williams

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Chris and Hayley Lee , owners of The Bildeston Crown

Food and Drink

The 36 best restaurants in Suffolk according to the AA guide 

Charlotte Smith-Jarvis

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Victoria Fenn first novel '12 Months to I Do' has been published by Pegasus Publishers

Books

Ipswich endometriosis patient and novelist to do first book signing

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson helps to lay bricks in a wall during a visit to a construction site in Cheshire.

17,000 workers needed to keep up with building boom in East

Angus Williams

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Sheline Gledhill on Felixstowe seafront

Suffolk seaside town appoints new BID boss

Sarah Chambers

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Woodland adjoining Foxhall Road near Ipswich.

Woodland

Look at images of the woodland being sold near Ipswich

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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Londoners leaving the capital is driving a boom in sales of houses worth over �1million Picture:Get

'More houses needed' to satisfy demand in Suffolk, says estate agent

Angus Williams

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Darren on The Music Room's stage in Ipswich

Music

Ipswich music venue could be forced to cancel 6 events if June 21 delayed

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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The Club Ipswich has been refurbished Picture: CHARLOTTE BOND

Ipswich Waterfront

Bar and club owners 'fed up' as reopening plans set to be delayed

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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A queue formed outside Isaacs later in the evening as people enjoyed the the pub's reopening Picture

Ipswich Waterfront

Isaacs to open plant-based café on the Waterfront

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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Greene King pubs are offerring free prints on the first day of the Euros 

Greene King

Revealed: The secret code you need to get a free pint of beer

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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Official launch of Suffolk Rural land college

Farming

Land-based student numbers rise as Suffolk college enters new era

Sarah Chambers

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There are a number of other Chinese buffets in Ipswich and further afield in Suffolk. PICTURE: Arch

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Ipswich buffet restaurant closes due to Covid-19 restrictions

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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The north entrance to the Buttermarket in Ipswich as it currently looks.

Buttermarket

Ipswich Buttermarket entrance revamp plans agreed

Jason Noble Local Democracy Reporter

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Selective focus of smiling senior couple dancing in kitchen

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Debunking myths about equity release

Peter Sharkey

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A printing press in action at Ancient House Printing Group

Suffolk printing business taken over by fast-growing investment empire

Sarah Chambers

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Organisers of the 2020 Suffolk Pride hope people will dress up colourfully for the virtual parade. P

The business of Pride: Are firms really flying the flag?

Angus Williams

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Sourdough St has moved into the former Pizza Express premises on Lloyds Avenue in Ipswich. Picture:

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New pizza joint with sourdough twist to open at former Ipswich restaurant 

Charlotte Mclaughlin

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