Paul Geater

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The Victorian coaches are a key element of the Middy's offer to visitors. (Image: Paul Geater) Suffolk's only preserved standard-gauge railway is hoping to raise £100,000 to build a new shed to help protect its Victorian carriages. The Mid Suffolk Light Railway has three nineteenth-century carriages which are used to give passengers rides. They are some of the oldest working coaches in the country.

6 days ago | ipswichstar.co.uk | Paul Geater

Loungers is nearing completion on Ipswich Waterfront (Image: Newsquest) Work to prepare for the opening of the new Loungers cafe-bar on Ipswich's St Peter's Dock appears to be entering its final phase. It is due to open in the summer and posters advertising its arrival have started to appear on the building at the entrance to the Waterfront. The venue had originally hoped to open before Christmas, but there were changes to its plans which pushed back the opening date.

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Some of the props used in the Netflix film The Dig at Sutton Hoo - including a mocked-up EADT from 1939. (Image: Lucy Taylor) Four years ago the Netflix film The Dig sparked fresh interest in Suffolk's Sutton Hoo burial ship as the nation emerged from its final covid lockdown. That helped to bring the story of the discovery of the royal burial ship vividly to life - and prompted an explosion in visitor numbers.

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Crown Pools is the right building in the right place for the town's swimming pool. (Image: Lucy Taylor) When Ipswich council first suggested building a new aquatic centre in Portman Road, it seemed like quite a bright idea. Mind you that was 17 years ago and it had the visionary brain of the late great Jim Hehir - the council's greatest-ever chief executive - behind it. The plan's been dusted off once or twice since before councillors or officers lost interest in it.

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Work linked to the construction of Sizewell C is already under way in the Leiston area (Image: Paul Geater) Ipswich MP Jack Abbott urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to speed up a decision to go ahead with Sizewell C in the House of Commons. Mr Abbott said during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday the project would create hundreds of jobs in his constituency and thousands more widely.