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Essex Police will be leaving footprints in homes as part of a week-long campaign to target burglaries. The force launches its drive tomorrow to remind the county's residents to lock their windows and doors. Officers will be posting footprint-shaped leaflets

The planned second runway at Stansted Airport will be built, according to BAA's new Spanish owners. Ferrovial-led consortium Airport Development and Investment (ADI) confirmed on Thursday its commitment to the Government's 2003 Air Transport White Paper

Two members of staff at a school for children with learning disabilities have been suspended after complaints were made against them. The two employees of Shorefields, which has sites in Holland Road and Leas Road, Clacton, are being investigated as

Who wants to be an emperor or an empress for the day? The organisers of the inaugural Colchester Chariot Spectacular are looking for appropriate candidates for the post to come forward. Taking place on the town's Abbey Field on July 16, the appointed

Pop aficionados who fancy themselves as the next Charlotte Church will be giving themselves a vocal workout at a Colchester school. Students from Holy Trinity Primary School will take to the stage and bellow a song in a Stars in Their Eyes type concert

Rowdy teenagers have been driving residents round the bend - by roaring through a Colchester estate on noisy mopeds. Neighbours used an official tour by council housing chiefs to raise concerns about the persistent racket in the town's Speedwell Road

Ex-England manager Sir Bobby Robson has been named president of former club Ipswich Town. The 73-year-old, who managed the Blues for 13 years before being appointed England boss in 1982, is the club's first president since the death of Lady Blanche Cobbold

Will Jefferson came back with an almighty bang as Essex collected a three-wicket victory against Middlesex in their Twenty20 Cup duel at Chelmsford. In his first game of the season, the opener smashed 51 from 27 balls as the county replied to a challenging

Midfield general Kevin Watson is looking forward to getting stuck in with his new lieutenant Johnnie Jackson. The commanding Colchester United player was back in pre-season training this week, and is already full of praise for new-boy Jackson, who signed

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A romantic man chose an unusual way to ask his girlfriend to marry him - he popped the question on a banner from the back of a plane. Ben Palmer, 30, of Main Road, Dovercourt, pulled out all the stops to propose to girlfriend Katie Burrows. Miss Burrows

Colchester has been talking about park-and-ride schemes for a long time. Now at least one of those schemes looks promising after Essex County Council unveiled plans for the town's first purpose built park-and-ride service at - subject to planning approval

The family of a Colchester-based paratrooper killed in Afghanistan have paid tribute to a "fine, upstanding lad". Private Damien Raymond Jackson, 19, of The 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, died during a firefight with Taliban rebels in the Helmand

Controversial plans for a wind farm in a tiny village near Maldon have been thrown out. A special meeting of Maldon District Council's planning and licensing committee was held last night to discuss the proposals. N-Power's development would have featured

A man who was told he was to lose his job was found dead in his car with the engine running, an inquest heard. Robert Lingard, 53, was found by his son at his home in Queensland Drive, Colchester, on May 16, an inquest at County Hall, Chelmsford, heard

Customers and staff at a betting shop are heartbroken after thieves stole £1,500 they had raised for a children's charity. Heartless burglars took the 2ft-high whisky bottle, known by punters as the "babies' bottle", from Ladbrokes in Collingwood Road

A 14-year-old has been locked up for dealing drugs. Police raided an address in Hawthorn Avenue, Greenstead, Colchester, after Ismayil Baltasli had been caught selling crack cocaine and heroin. He was caught during the biggest police operation to stamp

These five knew how to say goodbye to the Gilberd School in style! Thanks to Russ Applin for emailing in this picture of a '59 Cadillac leaving the Gilberd School for their Prom Night in West Mersea. From left to right we have Tommy Murrison,Dom Pyle