Ipswich Borough Council is proposing to increase parking charges across its off-street car parks and on-street bays from 20 July 2026, with hourly rates set to rise by 10p. It follows a similar increase to last year.

Two beauty therapy students from Suffolk New College have taken first and second place in a national massage skills competition, beating 15 rivals from colleges across the UK.

More than 1,000 eligible families across Suffolk are failing to claim Healthy Start support, leaving an estimated £1 million in food and vitamin payments unclaimed, even as weekly payment rates rise.

Ipswich Town CEO and chairman Mark Ashton made a surprise visit to Gusford Primary School on Monday, 8 June, bringing the club's 2025/26 Championship promotion trophy and raising money for local charities, including his own Lentonbrook Foundation.

The staff, volunteers and pupils behind Ipswich breakfast clubs have until Friday, 29 June to enter this year's Kellogg's Breakfast Club Awards, with a £1,000 grant and recognition at the Houses of Parliament up for grabs.

Boarded-up shops have become part of the furniture in Ipswich town centre. A little-known law could be about to change that, and for the first time, the council looks ready to use it.

Ipswich Borough Council's strategy promises to make the town centre "vibrant, inclusive, and a great place to live, work, and visit." Its parking strategy is to charge a little more every year. At some point, it needs to address the obvious contradiction.

From a 12-year-old to an 82-year-old, fundraisers of all ages conquered their fears this weekend to descend Ipswich Hospital's tower in wet and windy conditions, raising more than £60,000 for patients and families across East Suffolk and North Essex.

Claire Boobbyer did not come to Ipswich to be impressed. She came, as many do, without particularly high expectations – and left a convert. Her travel feature in The Independent, published this morning, is a love letter to a town that has spent too long being told it is not worth loving.

Plans to convert two fire-damaged buildings in Ipswich into a 16-bed shared home have been refused by councillors, who overturned officer advice and dismissed the proposal as "nonsense."

A charity five-a-side football tournament hosted by law firm Birketts at Portman Road has raised £20,250, with funds split equally between East Anglia's Children's Hospices and Ipswich Town Foundation.

Suffolk County Council has written to the county's chief constable calling for guarantees that police training never creates "doubt, hesitation or competing priorities" when responding to a risk to life – a direct response to national debate sparked by the heavily politicised murder of Henry Nowak.

Suffolk Chamber of Commerce took a delegation of leading local businesses to Westminster last week to press Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch on infrastructure, employment costs and tax relief.

The University of Suffolk is opening applications for three new postgraduate courses — in social work, digital marketing and data analytics, and cognitive behavioural therapy — all starting in September.

A new children's play area has opened at Murray Road Recreation Ground in Ipswich, featuring 29 pieces of equipment inspired by the site's history as a former racecourse.

Twenty-eight teams braved wind, rain and two capsizes at Ipswich Waterfront on Saturday to raise a record £60,000 for children and young people affected by sexual abuse.

A housebuilder's charity, which has donated more than £3 million since 2021, has opened its second funding round of the year, offering grants of £50,000 to organisations focused on helping young people into work.

A member of the public made three 999 calls over more than 20 minutes after spotting an injured man soaking wet and "bleeding profusely" in Ipswich town centre, but says neither police nor an ambulance attended.

Ipswich MP Jack Abbott has written to Suffolk County Council and Anglian Water demanding an immediate inspection of drainage infrastructure after flash flooding caused widespread disruption across the town on Tuesday.

An Ipswich-born singer-songwriter has released a new song celebrating his hometown, and is throwing a free party in the town centre tonight to mark the occasion.

From sorting rails at the British Heart Foundation to cashing up at Oxfam, Ipswich's charity shop volunteers give thousands of hours every year – for free. This Volunteers' Week, we went behind the till to meet the people who make it all possible.

Ed Sheeran brought his music back to the streets of Ipswich today, performing a free set on Ipswich's Waterfront. Fans describing it as "spectacular" got a chance to see one of the world's biggest artists up close – for free.

We spoke with fifteen students from Westbourne Academy and asked them to describe Maple Park – Jubilee to many people who live there. Their answers tell a story that no council meeting or policing strategy can capture.

Two suspects have been identified following a graffiti spree across Ipswich town centre over the bank holiday weekend, with one male arrested and bailed.

An Ipswich family raising £60,000 to keep their son at home as his health declines from a rare life-limiting condition has been overwhelmed by community support, after a local pub raised more than £2,000 at a fundraising event.

Ipswich's most famous historic building has cleared its first major hurdle, with planners unanimously approving its conversion into 21 flats, but without grant funding, the development remains commercially unviable, leaving its future far from certain.

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.

Suffolk County Council's Reform administration says it is cutting waste and ending virtue signalling. Opposition parties are united in saying it is doing the opposite. We examine, in detail, the arguments on both sides.

The Ipswich Windrush Society has unveiled the full entertainment line-up for this year's Heritage & Legacy Music Festival, a free event taking place on Saturday, 20 June, at Landseer Park, with a street parade, live music and Caribbean food stalls.

Four young iWill ambassadors from Ipswich travelled to Westminster on Tuesday to meet a government minister and share how youth social action is changing their town, with one telling Youth and Civil Society Minister Stephanie Peacock that being from Ipswich is now her "super power."