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It is estimated that of the 24million pumpkins carved each year in Britain for Hallowe’en, more than half of all these pumpkins are not eaten.

Ipswich Borough Council’s Regent Theatre has been offered a grant of nearly £1/2M from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund as part of its ‘Here for Culture’ campaign.

Bourne Park is raising a Green Flag Award for the first time, alongside Christchurch which has now won 13 flags in succession and Holywells which has chalked up 10 in a row.

Residents on low-incomes and unable to work because they have been asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace, can now claim a £500 payment to compensate for loss of earnings.

Ipswich Borough Council’s galleries and museums will benefit from money awarded to the Colchester and Ipswich Museums Services by the Culture Recovery Fund.