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Leader Live
30-07-2025
- Sport
- Leader Live
Wrexham may be closing in on signing Welsh star Broadhead
The Ipswich Star has reported that the 14-time capped Welsh international, who was once in Wrexham's academy, will smash the Red' record transfer fee as they prepare for life in the Championship following back-to-back-to-back promotions. A £1.5m signing from Everton in January 2023, Broadhead played a key role in back-to-back promotions before being limited to seven Premier League starts last season. Having scored 23 goals in 56 starts and 27 substitute appearances for the Blues, including two in the top flight, the classy attacker is now in the final year of his contract. Town are well-stocked when it comes to left-sided attackers, with big money signings Jaden Philogene (£20m), Jack Clarke (£15m) and Sammie Szmodics (£9m) all options for that role, while boss Kieran McKenna needs to trim his squad in order to accommodate further additions and stay within the 25-man limit. Broadhead is set to follow the likes of Liam Delap (Chelsea, £30m), Sam Morsy (Kuwait SC, free), Axel Tuanzebe (Burnley, free), Cameron Burgess (Swansea, free) and Massimo Luongo (released, signed for Millwall) in leaving the club this summer. He would become Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson's seventh signing of the summer, alongside Ryan Hardie, Danny Ward, Liberato Cacace, George Thomason, Josh Windass and Lewis O'Brien.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Business awards spotlight Suffolk's visionary businesses
The East Anglian Daily Times is delighted to announce the launch of the EADT Business Awards 2025 - celebrating the very best of Suffolk business. From the moment I started my first job in journalism at the East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Star in 1992, things have been changing. There was still a typewriter on one of the desks on my first day at Lower Brook Street in Ipswich. It wasn't in use, but not so long ago that it had been. Back then, we used clunky computers with green flashing blobs and everything you typed would hover in the blob (or so it seemed) before flashing across the screen all at once. When I moved to London, we had Quickmail and Quick Conference – a terrifying system where your message could fly up on the recipient's screen. Woe betide you if you sent a message to your friend about your annoying boss – only to discover that because you'd been thinking about him, your message had gone to your boss instead! EADT editor Liz Nice at the EADT Business Awards 2024 (Image: Matthew Potter Photography and Videography) From there, we got Apple Macs (mine was pink) and we really thought we'd made it. But the internet hadn't even been born yet and when it did appear, after the brief period of disaster they called the crash, suddenly the game changed yet again. It has been changing, more or less monthly, ever since. And yet I'm still here. Still in this business. Most of my contemporaries are not. I can't say why that is the case, but I can say what I've had to do to still be here: stifle a heck of a lot of eye rolls, smile when I didn't mean it, laugh when it wasn't funny, stay awake through a lot of not very interesting monologues. But hey, we've all done that, haven't we? That isn't enough. The real secret to longevity, along with sticking at it and loving what you do, is the ability to adapt to changing circumstances with optimism, not dread. If you stay looking forward, not back, you'll keep going. And if you support your colleagues and stick up for them, they will go with you and hold you up when you need it, because it was you who held them up when they needed you to. We have a great, forward-looking business community in Suffolk, facing innumerable changes and challenges. And we will keep on embracing those changes and challenges and making them work for us because that is what we do if we want to stick around. I will look forward to seeing you all at our beloved Business Awards, to be held at Kesgrave Hall on July 10, where we will be celebrating the new, the bright, the beautiful and the brilliant – if you're still here, still doing the thing you love with hope and passion, that's you, by the way. If you want the rest of the county to know about it and be inspired, then please visit our website at and get your entry in by the deadline on April 6 – because everything will change again tomorrow and I promise you this – it's always good to remember where you've been and how far you have come. Suffolk Business of the Year - sponsored by Suffolk Chamber of Commerce & Sizewell C Businessperson of the Year - sponsored by Churchmanor Estates Customer Excellence Award - sponsored by Greater Anglia Medium Business of the Year - sponsored by Pound Gates Large Business of the Year - sponsored by Larking Gowen Employer of the Year - sponsored by Ashtons Legal Small Business of the Year Start Up Business of the Year Environmental & Sustainability Award Positive Impact in the Community Growth Business of the Year
