Sophie Skyring

The youth-led Ipswich Period Rights campaign is raising awareness of period poverty and stigma while highlighting businesses and community spaces that already provide free period products. The group is encouraging more businesses and venues to stock products in their toilets and is asking residents to share information about available support. Food banks, churches, councillors and charities are also contributing to local assistance.

Ipswich Central and Harvest Moon have launched a free Constable 250 sticker hunt and art trail for children in Ipswich town centre. Families can visit participating businesses on St Peter’s Street and St Nicholas’ Street to collect six stickers, while children can submit Constable-inspired landscape drawings by October 4. Three age-group winners will receive art-themed goodie bags, and the winning works will be displayed at Harvest Moon during the October half-term.

The Ipswich Star lists five recent death notices and funeral announcements for Ipswich residents Colin Thrower, Cynthia Leggett, Janet Hazel Austin, Janette Anne Hubert and Marcia Joy Warren. The notices provide brief details about their deaths, ages and surviving family members, with links to the full tributes and information about sending condolences.