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Work to begin on Arras Square after six years and "313k in costs
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (482+ words) Construction work on long-awaited improvements to Arras Square is set to begin this month, with local firm Brooks & Wood Ltd appointed to deliver the scheme ahead of a Christmas 2026 completion target. Why it matters: Arras Square sits at the heart…...
Two identified, one arrested in town centre graffiti spree
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (301+ words) Two suspects have been identified following a graffiti spree across Ipswich town centre over the bank holiday weekend, with one male arrested and bailed. The details: Suffolk Constabulary has confirmed that a man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage....
Suffolk County Council to scrap climate emergency declaration and net zero targets
1+ day, 59+ min ago (455+ words) Suffolk County Council is set to rescind its climate emergency declaration and remove all net zero targets, leader Michael Hadwen has confirmed, as the Reform UK-led authority moves to overhaul its approach to environmental policy. Why it matters: The decision…...
Suffolk County Council won't publish its LGR pre-action letter " here's what we can take from Essex's
23+ hour, 53+ min ago (1010+ words) Essex and Suffolk are both mounting legal challenges to government reorganisation under Reform leadership. Essex chose to publish its pre-action letter; Suffolk has not. Reading one tells us a great deal about what the other might say, and whether the…...
Suffolk council formally threatens legal action over reorganisation plans
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (711+ words) Suffolk County Council has sent a pre-action letter to the Government warning it will seek a judicial review unless Ministers withdraw plans to reorganise local government in the county, escalating a dispute that began when the new Reform administration took…...
Police hunt witnesses following 'absolutely shocking' scenes following Arsenal's Champions League defeat on waterfront
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (233+ words) Police are asking anyone who recorded footage of a brawl outside a Waterfront bar on Saturday night to come forward as they investigate the incident. A fight broke out outside Isaacs on Wherry Quay on the evening of Saturday, 31 May,…...
What Ipswich's crime figures show, and what they leave in the dark
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1059+ words) Suffolk Constabulary has reported significant reductions across most crime categories in Ipswich, and the officers behind those numbers deserve fair credit " but the story is more complicated than the headline figures alone can tell. "I believe this is incredibly positive…...
Plans to turn Great White Horse Hotel into flats to go before planners
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (342+ words) Proposals to convert Ipswich's long-vacant Great White Horse Hotel into 21 homes and community space are set to go before the borough council's planning committee on Wednesday, 3 June, with officers recommending approval. Extensive repair and refurbishment works would be required across…...
Ipswich man jailed for 12 years for raping his neighbour
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (534+ words) A 50-year-old Ipswich man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted of raping a neighbour in her own home, with the sentence running on top of an existing prison term for a separate violent offence. The details:…...
'Ashton is a w*nker': Labour council executive's email account 'hacked"
6+ day, 2+ min ago (1074+ words) An Ipswich Borough Council executive whose email account sent a derogatory message about Ipswich Town chairman, Mark Ashton, says he was hacked. The council agrees, but a decision not to refer the incident to the ICO, despite a serious data…...