Ipswich Town’s Farage visit: a story that still doesn’t add up New comments from Nigel Farage have exposed gaps in Ipswich Town’s account of a visit already causing anger

First it was a private tour for Farage.
Then an invitation.
Then a lunch.
Then a policy discussion on football regulations.

The explanation has shifted at every stage – but here’s why none of them add up ⤵️

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And roof tops, watching the garden pond!

Government announce three unitary councils for Suffolk: How the battle for local democracy was won After months of bitter argument, competing business cases and accusations of misleading the public, the government has made its decision — and Suffolk is getting three new unitary councils. We trace t...

I am delighted that our Labour Government has backed an ambitious future for Suffolk, creating three new unitary councils, Greater Ipswich, East Suffolk and West Suffolk.

Farage's fossil fuel donors profit from Iran war Democracy for Sale analysis finds 'war premium' driving up energy costs is also boosting the portfolios of some of Reform's biggest backers

🔴 Hedge fund manager Jeremy Hosking has given Reform £1.7m+

Since Iran war, Hosking's fund's energy and fossil fuel investments have risen by more than $25 million

Other Reform donors set to profit from the 'war premium'

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Reform TV? GB News and the rules it keeps bending Andrew Neil’s verdict and a damning investigation expose how GB News is testing the limits of regulation

Reform is leading in the polls. Its leader hosts a TV show on a
a channel that's losing millions.

So what exactly is GB News for, if not to make a profit? And why isn't Ofcom doing something about it?

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Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tice 'avoided £600,000 in tax' Gabriel Pogrund - Whitehall Editor Tice sits in front of a tacky Reform football shirt designed for utter saps and losers, grinning about his tax dodging and wealth

Reform is too thick to hide their real motive for power. It’s not to make us wealthier. It’s not to improve our public services. It’s not even to manage immigration. It’s to wildly enrich themselves by dumping the rules and regulations that protect us from exploitation, discrimination and risk.

Done

Yes

Shameful!

Good rainbow this morning 😍

This morning, I spoke to Rob Dunger on Suffolk Sound about Ipswich's City of Culture bid.

This is for the whole of Ipswich, and we need to rally support with a month to go.

Please go to www.ipswich2029.com, #BackTheBid and share it with everyone you know.

#TeamIpswich2029 #CityOfCulture2029

Back the bid: Ipswich aims for City of Culture A new campaign urges Ipswich residents, organisations and businesses to unite as the town prepares its City of Culture 2029 bid

Ipswich has fired the starting gun on its City of Culture bid. The Suffolk county town already has a vibrant cultural scene and wants to boost it even more.

Organisers are asking people to sign up, show their support and #BackTheBid.

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Back the bid: Ipswich aims for City of Culture A new campaign urges Ipswich residents, organisations and businesses to unite as the town prepares its City of Culture 2029 bid

Businesses, community groups and residents in Ipswich are uniting behind the launch of the #BackTheBid campaign for 2029.

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He is!

we really do need to worry about what Reform might to do to our medicines and vaccine regulation if they get into power

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Hmmm. He should know.

Norfolk Broads rivers drowning in sewage, new report warns A new report reveals the Norfolk Broads has some of the worst sewage-hit rivers in Britain

A new report reveals the Norfolk Broads has some of the worst sewage-hit rivers in Britain | Owen Sennitt, Local Democracy Reporter

Trust doctors over Trump on paracetamol, Streeting says PA MEDIA Wes Streeting has urged people to listen to UK doctors and scientists, not Donald Trump, when it comes to paracetamol use

You can never be sure these days if anyone has any balls but well said Wes Streeting. This is a start.

Measles nearly ended my life when I was 6 in 1960. Another child in the hospital ward did die.

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

Not just the elderly! Several other reasons why some people are digitally excluded.

Sometimes, I get that good shot!

Unlimited corruption: how loopholes and foreign cash threaten UK democracy Opaque donations, crypto, and loopholes let foreign money and malign actors quietly erode Britain’s democratic system

Unlimited corruption: how loopholes and foreign cash threaten UK democracy
Opaque donations, crypto, and loopholes let foreign money and malign actors quietly erode Britain’s democratic system

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These hot days, wasps have to drink too. They wait until the birds have left.

We're facing a summer of traffic and tailbacks in Ipswich.

It didn't have to be like this, but the Suffolk Conservatives chose to block the Northern Bypass with no credible alternative.

Their 'do nothing' approach has led us to breaking point.

It's time to Back the Bypass and get Ipswich moving.

The right is not rising in the East Reform may have seized the Conservatives’ mantle in the local elections, but this is not a rise of the right in the East

Despite Reform’s surge, the overall swing in local elections in the East of England region was toward the broad left. Don’t let the media noise fool you. The right didn’t advance - it fragmented. Here’s how ⤵️ | Stephen McNair

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A hawthorn shield bug discovered by my 4 yr old granddaughter in our back garden. I'd never seen one before. Our shared excitement was wonderful 😊