Website of monthly magazine Ipswich24. Covering Ipswich, Woodbridge, Felixstowe, Hadleigh, Stowmarket and surrounding areas. Leading whats on and where to go magazine for the area.
23/02/2026
Felixstowe’s iconic Spa Pavilion is now in new hands and is set to re-open later this year. Negotiations have been completed with the preferred bidder for Felixstowe’s Spa Pavilion and their plans are at an advanced stage. Contracts now in place will see the new arrangement come into force on 15 May 2015, delayed until…
Read More about Felixstowe Spa Theatre to reopenIpswich24’s Wendy Cook will be taking part in a sponsored walk this autumn, with a difference. Wendy, who is co-owner of Fizzwig Designs, the company who publish Ipswich24 Magazine, will be taking part in a Firewalk at Ickworth House on Thursday 18th September to help raise funds for BBC Radio Suffolk’s 8 Days A Week…
Read More about Wendy Hotfoots It for Suffolk Family CarersIf you turned the radio on over 50 years ago your only listening choice was the BBC Home Service with it’s stuffy presentation or the nightly “under the bedcovers” fading of Radio Luxembourg. All that changed at Easter 1964 when Radio Caroline dropped anchor off Felixstowe. Caroline were quickly followed by a string of other…
Read More about Pirate Radio Exhibitions at FelixstoweIpswich Cycling Weekend returns to the town tomorrow (Saturday 30th) with a trio of two-wheeled events. There is a brand new sportive challenge, the Crafted Classique, the Ipswich Coastal Grand Prix pro cycle race concluding the British Cycling Elite Road Race series, and the return of Sky Ride Ipswich, offering families the chance to ride…
Read More about Team Sky launches weekend of cycling in IpswichAn exhibition by 20th Century women artists opens at Christchurch Mansion’s Wolsey Art Gallery next month and is accompanied by a programme of talks. “Obscure Secure” includes work by Connie Winn, Peggy Somerville, Anna Airy, Effie Spring-Smith, Kathleen Walne, Helen Kiddall, Prunella Clough, Beatrice Lithiby, Lucy Harwood and E M Every. The works form partof…
Read More about Christchurch Mansion Exhibition and TalksBBC Radio Suffolk presenters Mark Murphy and Lesley Dolphin will be joining members of Hospital Radio Ipswich this Saturday to raise funds for the station. Hospital Radio Ipswich is based at Heath Road Hospital where it’s volunteer members broadcast a variety of programmes every day of the week. The aim of the station is to…
Read More about BBC presenters help Hospital Station80s band Go West are back on the road this autumn (with The Christians and Hue & Cry) and are coming to Ipswich – Mark Keable caught up with Go West front man Peter Cox. Where were you born and did you come from a musical family? Peter: I was born in Kingston, Surrey and…
Read More about Interview: Peter CoxThe future of Felixstowe’s Spa Pavilion complex has taken another twist as the two formal bids on the table for consideration have both been rejected. Th hunt will now continue to find someone with viable plans for a long-term use of the Felixstowe landmark site. The market experts, Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL), that have been…
Read More about Spa to be knocked downThroughout this week events are being held up and down the Suffolk Coast to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the great flood of January 31, 1953 which claimed over 50 lives in Suffolk. In Felixstowe alone, 41 people died when the river walls were breached, with 13 of those being children between six months and…
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