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  • Rental Properties for week ending 27th June 2008

    Untitled Document Properties To Let in South Essex 3 BED HOUSE TO LET IN SOUTHCHURCH Call 01702 618153 After 6pm. SOUTHEND room to let, unfurn, for single person in house share close to town/ BR & Hospital, deps/refs req'd, no

  • Colchester: Parking fears for stadium raised

    CONCERNS have been raised over parking restrictions near the new community stadium in Colchester - because they may not go far enough. The regulations ban vehicles from parking in a number of roads including the length of Severalls Lane from its junction

  • Lisbie has no plans to move

    Kevin Lisbie will be kicking off the new Coca-Cola League One season with Colchester United - unless the club are ready to sell him. The former Charlton Athletic striker, who netted 16 goals for the U's last season as they dropped out of the Championship

  • Grant backs stance on Zimbabwe

    Grant Flower has backed the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) decision to ban Zimbabwe's cricketers from entering England for a one-day series next summer. The board took the action after Culture Secretary Andy Burnham wrote to the ECB instructing

  • Winner takes it all at the County Ground

    Just as ABBA greats Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus predicted 28 long years ago, the winner takes it all at the Ford County Ground tonight (5.30pm start). The Essex Eagles and Hampshire Hawks both go into their final Twenty20 Cup South Division fixture

  • Who's playing who this weekend

    SHEPHERD NEAME ESSEX LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION: Ardleigh Green v Gidea Park and Romford, Chingford v Colchester and East Essex, Saffron Walden v Hainault and Clayhall, South Woodford v Upminster, Wanstead v Brentwood. Second XI premier division: Colchester

  • All to play for at the halfway mark

    The halfway mark of the PDQ Cars North Essex League season has already arrived for many clubs. And the promotion and relegation issues are beginning to take shape. Frinton and Clacton are once again contesting the premier division title, but they are

  • We are worthy of cup final: Kennedy

    A cup final place shows Colchester and East Essex are a better side than their league position suggests, according to club captain Andrew Kennedy. He told the Gazette that Sunday's win over Hampstead in the Cockspur National Knockout Trophy regional

  • Williams targets more heroics

    Big-hitting Clacton cricketer Craig Williams was this week reflecting on his highest score in English cricket - and can't wait to wield the willow again in tomorrow's East Anglian Premier League match at home to Norwich. The South African blasted 169

  • Young guns lift spirits at Coggeshall

    Coggeshall's youthful second XI cricketers are more than making up for the disappointments currently being experienced by the Hare Field first team. While the senior team languish at the bottom of the first division without a win so far this season,

  • Napier: I just went out to bat

    THEY flew through the air with the greatest of ease. Sixes galore with world records to please. Essex County Cricket Club's soaring Eagle Graham Napier is still flying high up on cloud nine after smashing the record books wide open with the most spectacular

  • Colchester: Drink driver shame of U's player

    A COLCHESTER United player was caught drink -driving the night before the club's last game of the season. Jamie Guy was driving at night without headlights and was not wearing a seatbelt, Colchester Magistrates' Court heard. The 20-year-old striker,

  • Clacton: Road rage attack by two women

    A JUDGE branded a road rage attack by two Clacton women as one of the worst he had heard in years. Elaine Draper, 45, and Mandy Henderson, 42, drank four bottles of wine between them in Colchester before heading home to Clacton. But Draper drove into

  • Vigrass relishes pressure in final

    Prested Hall is celebrating another title following their National League Final success in France. While Wimbledon champion Roger Federer and French Open champion Rafael Nadal were grabbing all the headlines in the annual Roland Garros championships

  • In Your Gazette...

    :: See our amazing spread of pictures on the big Rowhedge to Wivenhoe protest swim. :: Take a peek at the Colchester County High School for Girls' school prom - we took loads of photos. :: Find out all about the big Colchester Food Fair, Rose Show and