IT’S the homecoming gig we’ve all been waiting for and certainly the event to end all events at the East Anglian Railway Museum. When Blur turn up tomorrow to play an exclusive set at the tiny goods shed at the Chappel museum, just 150 fans will be there
MIND-boggling. That was the verdict on Derren Brown’s new show Enigma during its 41-date national tour. Now the controversial, Olivier Award-winning master of mind magic is bringing it to the Adelphi, where it opens on Wednesday to July 18
WELCOME to the fly-tipping capital of Colchester. A spate of recent incidents in Holt Drive, off Mersea Road, has led chiefs at Colchester Council to target the area with free collection of bulky goods. The winding road includes a
READER, lend me your imagination as we throw a spanner in the works of history. It’s 1944 and a joint Franco-German Army has landed on the beaches near Frinton, to begin the successful liberation of Britain from its American and Canadian occupiers
A MOTORCYCLIST died after a crash in Tiptree Heath. The bike was involved in a collision with a Ford Transit van on Braxted Road at shortly after 8am. The motorcyclist was taken by ambulance to Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, but
A YOUNG woman who became a foster carer aged just 26 has raise more than £1,000 for the cause by facing one of her biggest fears. Louise Groves, now 31, jumped out of a plane from 10,000 feet in a fundraising tandem parachute jump, raising just over
“YOU’RE always battling against the tide and everything is run to the absolute limit.” That is how Dean Jay, a Halstead paramedic, describes his typical full-on “day”. A shift can sometimes last up to 14 hours and he may travel as many as 250 miles
ONE man determined to buck the clubbing trend at the Colchester Arts Centre is Ed Barnes. For many years the Church Street venue used to be a popular haunt for clubbers, but in the last few years they have all but disappeared. That was
AN HEROIC grandad is fighting for his life after saving his eight-year-old grandson from being hit by a car. The 65-year-old, whose name has not been released, was walking Connor McEwan home from Gosfield Primary School, Gosfield, when they
THREE people have been jailed for attacking a man and his partner with a hammer and a baseball bat at their Colchester flat. Carly Cox, Chase Cox and Joe Wilkinson, all from Colchester, were sentenced to a total of three years and 10 months
THE firm of architects that designed Colchester’s unfinished arts facility have welcomed the appointment of a new contractor. Rafael Vinoly’s London office said Colchester Council was right to take decisive action to get the delayed and over-budget
A FESTIVAL aiming to unite the Muslim and Jewish faiths will definitely go ahead next month after vital funding was secured. Mother and daughter team, Madeline and Daisy Lees, who run Arts La’Oram, are in the final stages of putting together the first
TEDDY bears are in training to parachute off a church tower. The annual event takes place at St Michael’s Church, Brantham, on July 11. Some 80 teddies have previously risked the jump. There will also be a teddy tombola, a treasure hunt and refreshments.Teddies
GARAGES and table tops are standing ready for this year’s Brantham sale. The sixth annual sale is in memory of 19-year-old Carla Dawson who lived in the village and died of a rare form of bone cancer in 2003. A total of 40 garages have ben booked ready
