A SADISTIC thug who left a man with horrific internal injuries after an attack with a dumbbell bar has been jailed indefinitely. Robert Fraiser, 41, battered 38-year-old Norman Reid around the head during the vicious attack in Colchester. The Glaswegian
CHILDREN will finally be able to enjoy a new play area...more than 18 months after it was closed for health and safety reasons. The gates at Bradford Drive play area in Mile End, Colchester were shut, initially without explanation, in July 2008. It
EDUCATION chiefs say Colchester Council needs to find potential sites for a secondary school in north Colchester. The authority is asking for people’s thoughts on what should be built alongside at least 2,200 homes on 110 hectares in the Mile
A YOUNG model from Colchester has beaten thousands to win a place in the final of a national competition. Three-year-old Jacob Coole, of Orrin Walk, wooed voters to become one of 20 finalists in store giant Debenhams’ Child Modelling Competition
CAMPAIGNERS are now another step closer to saving Colchester’s Roman chariot racing circus. Colchester Archaeological Trust has joined forces with tourism and regeneration group Destination Colchester to buy the sergeants’ mess building
THERE is a good way to find out if your friends will stick by you through thick and thin...get them to run alongside you in the London Marathon. Paula Johns, 38, owner of Medusa salon in Drury Lane, Colchester, is running the marathon for the
TWO-GOAL hero Anthony Wordsworth has helped Colchester United get their play-off challenge back on track. But the young midfielder now faces a two-match ban after picking up what he described as a “silly” booking. Wordsworth was cautioned by referee
AN investigation is to be carried out after clothes hanging up in a communal area were set on fire. One fire crew was sent to a block of flats in Hawthorn Avenue, Greenstead, at 7pm, to put out the blaze. One resident was alerted to the fire by his
