A HEALTH trust will have to find “better and smarter” ways of using money, an NHS boss said as the trust announced plans to cut millions from its annual spending. Primary care trust NHS North East Essex will need to make new “efficiency savings” of £5.3million
IT’S a hard life, being a probation officer. For the most part, you are trying desperately to help people who, more often than not, don’t seem to even want to help themselves. Added to that, for victims of crime and the public in general, probation is
Kevin Lisbie will be available for Colchester United's trip to Hartlepool United on Saturday, after his controversial red card against Charlton Athletic was overturned. The U's striker had been set to miss at least three of the U's forthcoming
HUNDREDS of homes and business were left without power following a fault in Colchester. EDF Energy said 1,006 customers in various parts of the town were plunged into darkness after a fault on the high voltage underground electricity network at 9.55am
ONE is a wide, leafy road in Lexden, the other is a street of flats and bungalows in New Town. Colchester’s most expensive and cheapest streets are only separated by two-and-a-half miles, but a massive gulf in property prices. Figures published by property
RESIDENTS in Colchester can get free advice on how to research their family tree. The town’s library is holding the event on Saturday April 24, where staff from the Essex Record Office and members of the Essex Society for Family History will be on hand
Colchester Council is set to win back millions of pounds from a contractor it fired for failing to build the town’s controversial Visual Arts Facility. An independent adjudicator decided Banner Holdings failed to follow the council’s instructions
John-Joe O'Toole is likely to be out for up to nine months after it was confirmed that he has ruptured his cruciate ligament. The young Colchester United midfielder injured his knee in the first half of his side's 1-0 defeat at Charlton Athletic on Tuesday
ALL flights from Stansted Airport will be put on hold from noon today as volcanic ash is posing a serious risk to aircraft. BAA is suspending all flights in and out of Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick after a volcano erupted in Iceland and spewed
BE prepared to be scared...zombies are coming to Colchester! Scenes reminiscent of the film, the Night of the Living Dead, are set to be created for a “zombie walk”. Photographer Toni Cutt, of Hall Lane, Walton, is planning the gory Colchester Zombie
Colchester Shopmobility has been located at St Mary’s car park for the past two years to provide mobility scooters to disabled car users. A year ago, Colchester Council removed all grant funding. The justification was the “low strategic fit”
The Catherine Bullen Foundation recently held a collection at the Co-op supermarket, West Mersea, which raised a total of £263. The foundation would like to thank the store for its hospitality and all those who contributed to the collection.
With reference to the plans for a new museum site in Brightlingsea (Gazette, April 12), while Peter Patrick seems very adept at coming up with ideas, when he was a councillor he voted against projects which would have been for the benefit of
Do the bosses at First buses gain a perverse pleasure from making Colchester bus passengers late for work? Take my morning bus, the 8.12am 62 service from the High Street to my place of work at the university. It’s often up to ten minutes early
A MISSING 12-year-old boy has been found safe and well. Fears had grown for the safety of Simon Jacobs after he disappeared from his home in Chase Lane, Harwich, on Tuesday evening. He had made no contact with his family since leaving
FAMILY and friends of a murdered schoolgirl are waiting anxiously to hear if her killer’s sentence will be appealed. Liberty Templeman was beaten unconscious, strangled, and then dragged and left face down in a stream in New Zealand in 2008. The popular
RESIDENTS are calling for travellers to be evicted from the grounds of a derelict hospital. Families in Boxted Road, Mile End, claim families who have set up camp at Severalls Hospital are causing a nuisance. About 30 people living in nine caravans are
