A HISTORIC church tower’s £75,000 facelift has flown into trouble after bats were discovered in the belfry. Builders were due to start work at All Saints Church in Great Holland next week. But when experts carried out checks on the 600-year-old tower
A FAMILY are still hopeful they can track down their missing labrador a month after she went missing. The Lewis family offered a £2,000 reward for the safe return of Ava who went missing last month from their Great Wigborough home. Since it appeared
A NEW pedestrian crossing has been installed on Shrub End Road to help those using the doctors surgery. The crossing has been campaigned for for the past 14 years, and following a survey on the number of pedestrians in the area it has been given the
THE Haven Gateway Partnership’s announcement it had received £200,000 from the Government to look into eco homes was greeted with widespread derision. North Essex MP Bernard Jenkin, councillors and even Friends of the Earth voiced their
A HISTORIC farmhouse once leased by famous author Daniel Defoe is set to be demolished. Tubswick, in Mill Road, Mile End, was devasted by fire in December last year, and now its owners have applied to Colchester Council to flatten the house. The Grade
MANY a bride-to-be may dream of an elaborate film star-style wedding. Now, movie fans have the chance to come close – tying the knot in front of the silver screen at one of Britain’s oldest cinemas. The Electric Palace in Harwich now has a licence
Can somebody please tell me what has happened to the Post Office and Royal Mail? In the past two weeks, I have had three letters go astray. The first one was posted March 25 and not received. Then three were posted to Colchester, and one to
Under the Freedom of Information Act, would every county councillor please answer the following question, with a plain yes or no? If it was your own money you were spending, and not the taxpayers’, would you hand out 442 credit cards to to 862
I had to move out of my flat in Colchester as my partner and I had another baby and we needed a bigger place. The block we lived in had six separate flats in it. Since moving out I regularly visit one of my ex-neighbours. The new tenants in
For further evidence of how Essex County Council has seriously miscalculated, either deliberately or incompetently, the number of children in Colchester for whom places at schools are needed and will be needed in the years ahead, take a look
PARAMEDICS were unable to to help an unconscious man suffering a heart attack because they were worried about his dogs. Michael Clarke was bitten by Ozzie, a cross between a Staffordshire bull terrier and a Dorset Bulldog, after he went into his neighbour
Maldon Town are set to be rebranded and become Maldon and Tiptree Football Club. Tiptree United have decided not to field a competitive side next season and are withdrawing from the Essex Senior League. But in order to help preserve their name and history
Kevin Lisbie is attracting strong interest from League One club Millwall. The Colchester United forward, on-loan from Ipswich Town, will return to his parent club at the end of the season, but is expected to be sold in the summer. He has another year
Colin Wallington has announced he will retire from football at the end of the season. The Maldon Town boss has called time on his management career – a decision he revealed was made as long ago as Christmas. Wallington, a well-known character on the
A COUPLE took on a blaze that spread from the garage through their house in Colchester. The man, who suffered minor burns to his arms, and the woman, were both treated in hospital for smoke inhalation after the fire at their house in Fernlea, off Bergholt
WITHAM TOWN extended their unbeaten run in the Essex Senior League to six matches with a 2-0 win over Barking at Spa Road. Kevin Hawes and Rob Whitnell were on the scoresheet for Town, to consolidate their second-placed position in the table. Witham
ARSONISTS are believed to have started a fire in the stairwell of a block of flats on Colchester’s Greenstead estate. A large pile of clothing was set alight in the communal area of the flats, in Hawthorn Avenue, on Sunday evening, melting plastic on
A CHARITY has offered to make up an insurance payout an injured paratrooper stands to lose because he was filmed carrying the Carling Cup on to the pitch at a Wembley final. Private Dave Tatlock, of Colchester-based 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment,
