Stone-throwing yobs are terrorising a new housing estate. Disabled Alfie Cowan is one of a number of people in Balkerne Heights in Colchester whose life is being made a misery by troublesome children. The 51-year-old's window was smashed last week and
A grateful son is back to his best following a lifesaving kidney transplant. Dan Lincoln, 29, endured years of poor health and spent eight hours a day hooked up to a dialysis machine. Proud mum Irene said today he was transformed after she gave him one
Gavin Williams today revealed his delight at ending his injury nightmare and getting back in action for Ipswich Town. The Welsh international played a half of Saturday's friendly at Boston United, which ended 1-1. It was his first taste of action since
Essex skipper Ronnie Irani says his side are fired-up to end the Twenty20 Cup group stages in explosive style. He takes the Eagles to the south coast tonight for a vital southern group showdown with the Sussex Sharks, knowing a place in the competition's
Please use us! That is the plea to residents in Harwich and Dovercourt who are being told their tourist information office is for them as much as for tourists. Harwich Connexions Tourist Information Centre (TIC) is next to Morrison's car park, Dovercourt
A case of the early bird catching the news story! Early riser James Pickard of Colchester snapped this picture of the Cowdray Centre blaze at 4.50am on Satuday morning as he walked along Cowdray Avenue. Many thanks to him for sending it in.
A seaside town is flushed with excitement about designs for a new £350,000 toilet block. Tendring Council has put three options for the loos on Frinton's greensward, at the end of Connaught Avenue, out for consultation. The Evening Gazette asked visitors
Card ace Matthew Osborne is going for broke in a bid to win the world's biggest poker prize. His next big outing will cost a whopping $10,000 just to enter, but comes with an astonishing $10 million jackpot. The 32-year-old electrical maintenance man
Lost budgies have a liking for actor Giles Watling. Giles, of Holmbrook Way, Frinton, said: "I was sitting on the beach hut on the Walings (at Frinton), minding my own business when it landed beside me and hopped on to my finger." Temporarily Sky, as
A replacement bus service was put on between Braintree and Witham railway stations for more than four hours after train delays. Stranded commuters at stations on the Braintree branch line boarded buses from 9.15am following disruptions at Chelmsford,
A man whose house was destroyed by a digger has found his broken tooth in the rubble. James Havard broke the false tooth from his £800 bridge while chewing a toffee and stowed it in a bedroom drawer. He was due to see the dentist to have it reattached
A carp owner had to pick his beloved fish out in an ID parade when a fellow collector stole them from his pond. When Steven Burrows caught old acquaintance Alan Lawrence, 41, at the pond with a large net and a bag containing one of his carp, the 41-
The cause of the disastrous fire which wrecked Colchester's Cowdray Centre might never be known. A major investigation has been launched after the home to 60 small businesses was ruined in one of the town's biggest-ever blazes. Fire chiefs warned today
A man has been jailed after knocking his girlfriend's tooth out in a row over her alleged cheating. "Jealous and controlling" Barry Payne struck Sonia Clayfield at his Colchester home, a court heard. He had asked her over in a phone conversation, where
A supermarket chef plans to fast for four days while locked inside a tent in a David Blaine-style stunt to raise money for charity. Andrew Tierney, of Turner Rise, Colchester, will remain inside the tent with just basic supplies and bottles of water
An ambulance crew has praised members of the public who provided shelter for a 27-year-old woman cyclist who had been involved in a collision with a car in Witham. The accident happened at the junction of Honeysuckle Way and Flora Road at about 5.40pm
