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Ravinder Bopara will be missing from the action when Essex attempt to get back on the winning trail in tonight's Twenty20 Cup battle against Middlesex at Chelmsford. The 21-year-old right-hander was today on duty for England A at Canterbury where, along

Colchester United legend Mark Kinsella has ruled himself out of the vacant manager post at Layer Road, but he has just the man for it Mervyn Day. The former Charlton Athletic assistant to Alan Curbishley is a free agent following the duo's decision

A plucky pensioner is getting set for an air-raising experience strapped to an old biplane. Thrill-seeker Betty Callaghan, 71, will hurtle around on top of a Tiger Moth, hundreds of feet in the air, to help launch a new scanner appeal for Colchester

More than 100 factory staff have lost their jobs, just a month after their aluminium parts company was placed in administration. The remainder of the 194 staff could also lose their jobs if a buyer is not found for the Adal Group's Witham factories.

A futuristic high-speed ferry service is set to be phased out from next year. Stena's HSS Discovery, which sails from Harwich to the Hook of Holland in almost 3 hours, will end as part of an overhaul of services. The company is expanding two superferries

Firefighters were called when a huge pile of rubbish caught light at a travellers' site. Crews from Colchester and Nayland tackled the blazing heap of waste last night in Chapel Road, Boxted. The fire is the second in the last two years on the land,

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A keen golfer who was struck by lightning is today continuing his recovery in hospital. Derek Saunders, of Fleetwood Avenue, Holland-on-Sea, was knocked out by the bolt at Millers Barn Golf Club in Clacton yesterday. Doctors could not believe the 66

A post office has closed its doors for good. From today, customers will have to cross Maldon High Street to make use of the new post office services in Budgens supermarket. Branch manager Sharon Burne said: "We will all be very sad to go, it's the end

A supermarket night manager was attacked after challenging a suspected shoplifter. The incident happened at Tesco in High Woods, Colchester. The member of staff told police he was assaulted after he was seen taking down the vehicle details of a man he

A man who was electrocuted has been identified as Stephen Mayho. The 51-year-old from St Osyth died when the crane on the back of his lorry struck power cables in Chappel on Monday. An inquest has been opened and adjourned into his death. Essex Police

A popular police community support officer who was injured on duty is back on the beat. PCSO Wayne Burke, who lives in Colchester, has been recovering for 3 weeks from injuries sustained while trying to restrain a suspected thief on June 10 in Clacton

A BRITISH soldier killed in Afghanistan was part of a regiment based in Colchester, it was confirmed today. He was taking part in a foot patrol in Sangin town in the troubled Helmand province in the south of the country, at about 11.30am British time

A father allegedly murdered his four-month-old son out of a "mixture of anger, temper and frustration", a court heard. But a jury was also told that baby Harry Ansell actually died after his father, Matthew Ansell, claimed he fell from his arms during