LONG gone are the days when nurses wore starched hats and aprons. Much more than just the uniform has changed since Florence Nightingale’s time. At Colchester General Hospital, nurses talked about how the job has evolved to mark national Nurses’ Day
A FIRE at an electricity substation sent a plume of thick black smoke over Colchester. Power to 1,500 homes and businesses around Abbeyfields was cut off for almost an hour on Saturday evening. Some 33 properties on Napier Road were nor reconnected
A MAN has been ordered to take part in a domestic abuse programme for harassing his former partner – only days after she got a court order against him. Keith Aylwin was banned from contacting the woman after their relationship broke up earlier this year
HOSPITAL staff are to get a little extra in their next pay packet – a letter from their boss in a bid to boost morale. Peter Murphy, chief executive of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, is writing to all employees pledging to improve
THE new Government’s opposition to a second runway at Stansted is a blow to businesses in the region, it has been claimed. The Government is firmly opposed to extra runways at the Essex terminal, Heathrow and Gatwick. The stance has been welcomed by
POLICE took the fight against pickpockets to the criminals’ homes with a series of early morning raids. Officers from Colchester joined colleagues from the British Transport Police’s specialist purse dipping team, in London on Thursday, as
VILLAGERS in Tiptree could soon be popping to church to catch a movie. Tiptree United Reformed Church has applied for permission to screen films on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. If given the green light by Colchester Council’s licensing committee,
BUSINESSES have criticised a big increase in the cost of taking part in this year’s Colchester Carnival. Event organisers are charging companies £550 to enter a float in the parade on September 4. This is nearly a fourfold increase on last year’s £150
FIREFIGHTERS rescued a man from a smoke-filled flat in Clacton. Crews were called out to Penfold Road just after 10pm on Friday. They arrived to find the flat full of smoke after a cooker had caught fire and dragged a man out to safety. Paramadics
