Ipswich news
OFFICIAL permission has been sought for Holywells High School to be relocated to a new site in the town.
An outline application has been submitted to Suffolk County Council for the school to be rebuilt on land next to Gainsborough Sports Centre near the Ravenswood estate.
HEADLINE acts have been announced for the second year of the Harvest at Jimmy's music and food festival.
The two-day festival, at Jimmy's Farm, at Wherstead, near Ipswich, is taking place over the weekend of September 11-12.
A STAGGERING 13,000-plus people have signed the Evening Star's Save the Blue Cross campaign petition.
Campaigners fighting to save the animal rescue home from closure are absolutely thrilled with the response - and hope it will persuade charity chiefs of the need to keep the centre open.
CHILDREN robbed of a place to play after yobs smashed up an area of Holywells Park will soon be climbing high again.
For more than nine weeks visitors to the park have been staring at a vandalised climbing ship, which was callously trashed before Christmas, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.
WE'D all like to get away from it all for the winter - and one well-known family has headed off somewhere drier while their home is rebuilt!
Grandma has picked up her bag and brolly and headed away from the junction of Queen Street and Princes Street for a few months.
A FORMER architect and local historian, John Brian Weller, who passed away in January 2009 has bequeathed a significant legacy to the history department at University Campus Suffolk (UCS).