The John Lewis store at Futura Park should reopen next month.
- Credit: CHARLOTTE BOND
Over the last week, Ipswich appears to have had a couple of pieces of good news about its emergence from the pandemic - but for anyone who thinks that we are unique in problems we are facing, it has been a real wake-up call.
The future of the John Lewis chain of department stores and "at home" retail warehouses across the country has been a subject of speculation for months - several closed last year, and last week there was a flurry of speculation that eight more were to shut.