'One of a kind' - Tributes to the Ipswich schoolboy who grew up to run steam trains
Steam train owner David Buck began his love of railways as a trainspotter on Ipswich station - and ended up running one of the best-known locomotives in Britain.
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Paul Geater has been writing about politics in Ipswich and Suffolk for more than 30 years. He also writes about transport issues - especially rail and road...
Paul Geater has been writing about politics in Ipswich and Suffolk for more than 30 years. He also writes about transport issues - especially rail and road...
Steam train owner David Buck began his love of railways as a trainspotter on Ipswich station - and ended up running one of the best-known locomotives in Britain.
Ipswich MP Jack Abbott has asked Suffolk County Council to suspend non-vital roadworks in the town while repair work partially blocks the Orwell Bridge.
The offer of a devolution deal for Suffolk that would have seen a directly-elected leader installed in return for £16m a year has been formally withdrawn.
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Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna heads the list of five honorary graduates to be created by the University of Suffolk later this year.
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Most Suffolk MPs voted on party lines in the debate on winter fuel payments - although Suffolk Coastal's Jenny Riddell-Carpenter did not go through the lobby.
The first-ever UKIP MEP for East Anglia, Jeffrey Titford, has died at the age of 90. He also led the party briefly and helped turn it into a national force.
How have we ended up with the most miserable and pessimistic bunch of politicians ever? From Ipswich to Westminster everyone wants to pile on the gloom!
Celotex of Hadleigh in Suffolk supplied cladding material to Grenfell Tower and the firm was branded dishonest in the report into the tragedy.
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