JUST like their namesake the Chameleon’s Web Theatre Company can adapt to any play. Following the Colchester troupe’s success with Educating Rita, in May, they are about to put on another modern classic, Hannie Rayson’s Life After George. Written seven
FUNDERS behind Colchester’s half-finished Visual Arts Facility have given the go-ahead for construction work to resume. The all-clear was given for contracts with builders to be signed after a report found it should be possible to complete work in the
A COUPLE have to wait until next year to discover if they will have to demolish their house. More than 150 people packed into a meeting of Tendring Council’s development control committee where the fate of Mayflower Cottage, Wix, was deferred. Zippy
Villagers are celebrating the news of new allotments. About 30 allotments will be created in Clacton Road, St Osyth, and there is already a 20-strong waiting list. The parish council has agreed a peppercorn rent with the landowner, and will take over
A VILLAGE is set to get its first farmers’ market. Cindy Rowland is organising the event in Lawford, where she has a 5,000 sq ft greenhouse at her Poppy Farm home, in Harwich Road. She is appealing for stall holders to come forward for the market at
HUNDREDS of Colchester paratroopers will drop into Arnhem, in the Netherlands, to mark one of their earliest operations. This weekend marks the 65th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, one of the most controversial military operations of the Second
A NATIONAL supermarket chain that has brought almost 300 jobs to the town opens its doors in Colchester today at 8am. Waitrose had to close its recruitment process for its new Ipswich Road store a week early after more than 1,600 people applied. The
A CONVICTED wife killer has won £250,000 on the National Lottery. Michael Edgar, of Fronks Road, Dovercourt, was convicted of manslaughter in 1986 after he stabbed his wife Deborah through the heart with a filleting knife after she taunted him. The
A PRACTICAL joker had a taste of his own medicine when his friends gave his garden a makeover...while he was on his honeymoon. Shaun Parker saw his garden transformed into a “travellers’ site” while he was away with his wife Catherine. The 48-year-old
THE new Commander of Colchester Garrison is embracing his role in continuing a 2,000-year military tradition. One of the Romans’ first acts on arriving in Britain was to establish a garrison at Colchester, and the town has housed Army bases
A FATHER is preparing for a gruelling hike up Ben Nevis in October to raise money to send his autistic son to America. Ethan Mathias, four, from Wivenhoe, was diagnosed with classic autism and global developmental delay at the age of two. Since then
GRANDPARENTS were included in a nursery school’s fun and games as toddlers included them in their activities for the day. Puddleducks nursery, Halstead, celebrated National Grandparents Day with a party and picnic. About 35 grandparents visited the
The building 15 Queen Street, Colchester, would make an excellent base for mobility scooters for the disabled bus travellers at the bus park. Unfortunately, the artistic elite on Colchester Council want the unpopular Firstsite art group to be
I am seeking contact details for Dave Perry, a former proprietor of a company called Automotive Design & Development, who built kitcars in the Colchester/Clacton area during the Eighties. I believe he also had a company called Perry Autos but
Colchester United manager Aidy Boothroyd has completed his second loan signing in 24 hours. The U’s boss has already brought in striker powerful Barnsley striker Kayode Odejayi. And he has now added young Wolves defender Danny Batth to his squad, on
I have found a pendant that I feel it could be of great sentimental value. It is as silver metal keyring pendant, oval shaped, with “To Daddy Love Lewis x”, engraved with a thumb/fingerprint of a baby/small child set into the metal. It was found
I grew up in Vineyard Street, Colchester, during the war. It was a small street, with great people. I see few of them now. I was evacuated to Kettering for about 18 months. When my mother came to bring me home, we came through London during the
VIOLENT crime has fallen dramatically in the Colchester district. Latest figures on the Essex Police crime mapping website reveal the number of robberies across the district halved, from 12 in June 2008, to just six in June this year. Other violent
Why are people moaning about the Great British Circus? Please leave these people and animals in peace. They do a fantastic show. L Jordan Harcourt Avenue Dovercourt
I felt I had to write about the article (Gazette, September 10) about Mr Moonflower, who had the audacity to repair his property without planning consent, and now, because he did so, it has to be demolished. The Tendring Council planning services
I am sure many Colchester residents are fed up with hearing just how saintly Colchester MP Bob Russell is when it comes to his expenses. Not to mention all his Lib Dem chums queuing up to tell us at every opportunity. So for the sake of clarity
CHALET life is all right, say residents living in wooden former holiday homes. Lord Hanningfield, the new head of coastal regeneration, recently said residents should be encouraged to leave the wooden former chalets in central Jaywick. He believes they
HALSTEAD swept the floor at the Anglia In Bloom awards. Campaigners heard the words they had longed to hear when judges announced the town had won the coveted gold standard. It beat rivals Brightlingsea, Maldon and Sudbury to top the 6,001 to 12,000
A FIREFIGHTER bidding to swim the English Channel solo next week admits he’s terrified. Pete Walker, 39, has been busy training for the gruelling event in the sea at Clacton. He’s become a regular sight in Martello Bay, and has even swum from Walton
RECORD numbers of women are out of work in Colchester. Government figures released yesterday show the number of women joining the dole queue edged over 1,000 last month – the highest for 13 years. In August, 1,017 women claimed job seeker
AN alcoholic with a history of convictions has been given an antisocial behaviour order. Christopher Agombar, of Cutting Drive, Halstead, was given the order for three years at Colchester Magistrates’ Court. The court heard how the 35
A SIX-SCREEN cinema could be built at Clacton’s out-of-town factory outlet. Investment company Rom Capital, which bought the Stephenson Road shopping centre last year, says it has the cash in place for the £3million multiplex. The cinema
FORTY pooches have already signed up for the charity coastal stroll along Clacton’s seafront next month. They are leading the way for the 11th Headway Essex Coastal Dogathon on Sunday, October 4. The four-legged friends and their owners start their
