Happy New Year to all our readers. I hope January is going well for you.
2024 was a great year for us at the Ipswich Star and I just wanted to say how grateful we are for your continued support.
We now have well over 1000 of you as paid subscribers, demonstrating your loyalty and appreciation for our award-winning journalism. You get to access all our exclusive content ad-free and nearly 1.5million of you visit our pages each month. Our mix of local and community news, along with our widely admired Ipswich Town FC content, seems to be exactly what you want above all other options.
But I am always looking to improve the paper and one of the ways I would like to do that is by including you, our readers, a lot more, giving you a chance to be featured and to tell us the stories that matter most to you. It’s your paper as much as it is mine so it shouldn’t just be up to me what goes in.
Starting this week you’ll notice we are introducing a number of new elements in your paper:
Following the huge success of our Pet of the Year contest which saw hundreds of you sending us photos of your beloved animals, we’re now featuring your pets every week. If you would like your pet to have their star turn, please email suffolkeditors@newsquest. co.uk
I love it when local groups send me their reports and we already feature reports from rotary clubs, parish groups, choirs, churches, environmental groups and so many more. If it matters to you, it matters to me. So, if you have a monthly group report, newsletter or piece of news, please just send it to me, ideally with a photo, at liz.nice@newsquest.co.uk
Food and drink
We’d welcome your reviews of your favourite pubs and restaurants. You don’t have to write much but your recommendations can be so helpful to other readers. Please send me your food reviews at suffolkeditors@ newsquest.co.uk and watch out for our first Pub of the Week in next week's Ipswich Star.
I have one regular reviewer, Tracy Gleeson, who sends me her reviews of the Red Rose Chain productions. I’m so grateful to her. If you’d like to review something, we’d love it! There simply aren’t enough of us to get to everything but we’re always keen to support local shows. Please send your reviews to suffolkeditors@ newsquest.co.uk
I delight at seeing pictures of readers out and about in the town, giving me ideas of where I might go next. Why not send me a selfie of you in front of an important Ipswich landmark and if we get a selection, we can feature them regularly. All the better if you happen to be holding a photo of the newspaper! Please send your photos to suffolkeditors@ newsquest.co.uk
Readers often send me information about wedding anniversaries and last year we featured a reader’s wedding simply because she asked if we would! If you’d like to see your special family event in the paper, whether it’s a new baby, a wedding, a prom, a retirement or any other special celebration, just send us a few words about the event and a photo or two (or five) and we’ll give it a lovely showing. Send them to me at liz.nice@newsquest.co.uk
We obviously cover as much local sport as we can but we’re always keen to get your sport reports or news of your local team, whether you’re playing for your pub, your club or your school. Please send your reports and a photo to suffolkeditors@newsquest. co.uk
I quite often have people unhappy that we have missed out the letters page or that the same people keep getting in. Please send me your letters so that we can keep a steady flow going! The email address is eadtletters@ newsquest.co.uk or you can email me at liz.nice@ newsquest.co.uk
If there is anything else you’d like to see in the paper regularly, please let me know. It’s your community and your news. I’m just here to celebrate you all and I’ll look forward to whatever news you want to send in, Liz
Join us
PS To subscribe to the Ipswich Star for all this plus great exclusive reader offers, competitions and puzzles visit https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/subscribe/ At the moment, you can subscribe for just £3 for 3 months (offer expires Jan 31).
Newsletters
And if you have a special interest, why not subscribe to some of our newsletters? We currently have 24,500 subscribers to our Ipswich Star newsletters - double what we had at the start of 2024 - who look forward to their regular news fix on their favourite topics. From a daily newsletter of all our top stories, to breaking news alerts, to court and crime, food and drink, business, farming, what’s on and nostalgia, there’s something to suit every taste. We even have our Good News letter for those who want to be cheered up by all the good things that are happening in Ipswich. It's such an easy way to get your news fix - straight to your inbox with our best stories of the day picked out by us for you. Find your perfect newsletter at https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/my/account/profile/#emails It costs nothing and you can unsubscribe at any time
Here’s to you, our loyal and ever growing audience, and a great 2025,
Liz
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