Plan to be reviewed after a museum lottery bid fails

Hopes of a multi-million-pound lottery windfall for Ipswich Museum have been dashed – forcing borough chiefs to reconsider the ambitious 23m project to transform the High Street campus. Officials at the borough were a dealt the devastating blow on the day that the National Trust learned it would be getting A 1.4m from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help fund a A 2.4m development of its site at Sutton Hoo.