A HEALTH trust has launched a magazine to help smoking mums-to-be quit the habit. NHS North East Essex says the publication – designed to look like a mainstream women’s weekly – is a useful tool in the fight to stop women putting their unborn babies
MANLY’S back – and he’s new and improved. Last year we reported on Colchester actor and writer Darren Gooding’s first feature film starring his beloved creation, East Anglia’s most notorious actor, critic and raconteur, Mr Manly S Truelove. His mockumentary
THE best of brass, with musicians from Harwich and the Netherlands, strikes up for a special night at the Princes Theatre on Saturday. The Harwich Royal British Legion is returning to the Clacton venue for this concert and will be joined by musicians
A MUM has demanded an apology after her son choked on a chicken nugget at a birthday party in a Colchester play centre. Kayleigh Battersby also claims ants were crawling near cups of juice and running on the cake the mother of the birthday boy Zacharry
WEST End singers and former lead singer with the Stranglers, Paul Roberts, jazz up Sunday night at Clacton’s Princes Theatre. The singers and their all-girl musical sextet, the Jazz Belles, will celebrate the hits of kings of swing, like Frank Sinatra
TWO mums who have been through the agony of losing a daughter are raising cash for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. Best friends and small business partners Katie Henderson and Dione Fox have already held fundraising events for Addenbrooke’s
IS hairdressing the new rock’n’roll? Big name stylists from around the world are jetting in to Colchester to perform in a live stage show next month – the first of its kind in the UK. Instead of singing or dancing, they will be cutting models’ hair,
A DRIVER was trapped in a car after a crash in Colchester. The black saloon car left the road and collided with a bus stop at the junction of Bromley Road and Harwich Road after 6pm today. The woman was cut free by two fire crews from
COUNCILLORS have their “fingers crossed” after giving another £1.1million towards the controversial Visual Arts Facility, it is claimed. A full meeting of Colchester Council yesterday agreed to put the cash towards fitting out the interior of the building
ESSEX went Dutch seven years ago when they signed Ryan ten Doeschate. And they have gone Dutch again, but this time to make the unusual trip to Amstelveen to face Holland today in the Clydesdale Bank40. It is the first time the two teams have met in
COLCHESTER’S new mayor has promised to recognise the work carried out by the borough’s volunteers over the next 12 months. Sonia Lewis, a Conservative councillor, who has served Lexden since 1992, was unanimously elected at Colchester Council’s mayor
Scott Styris has signed for Essex for the upcoming Friends Provident t20 campaign. The 34-year-old, Australian-born all-rounder has an abundance of international experience with New Zealand international and is an aggressive right-handed batsman and
TRADERS have told town centre planners how they need to improve Colchester. They had their say during an exhibition at Lion Walk Church outlining projects in the pipeline. Business owners welcomed the proposals, and said the town needed cheaper parking
This season was supposed to be the year Essex all-rounder Graham Napier reinforced opinion of his talents. But it has not worked out for the Colchester star just yet. Early last summer he was in England’s Twenty20 World Cup squad. Fast forward a year
Aidy Boothroyd has been confirmed as the new first team manager of Coventry City on a three-year deal. Boothroyd has left Colchester United after less than ten months in charge to take over the Sky Blues. He has been unveiled today at a press conference
A CONSERVATION group has vowed to breathe new life into a stretch of riverside in Colchester The Friends of Hythe aims to improve the Hythe Lagoons, alongside the banks of the River Colne between the town’s former port and Rowhedge, for people
Coventry City are expected to unveil Aidy Boothroyd as their new manager this afternoon. Boothroyd is set to leave his role as U's boss after little more than nine months in charge to take over at the Ricoh Arena. Boothroyd had been given permission
Kidetok is a village in northern Uganda. Since the time of Idi Amin, the area has suffered from terrorism. Funds are urgently needed for a water supply scheme, for medicines and now a replacement Land Rover ambulance. Since 1995, I have
I would like to thank the Gazette for bringing to my attention the funding of Colchester Carnival (May 14). I was pleased to see the carnival return to Colchester last year. It is something I and many others supported. Call me naive, but I simply
Did you know strokes are the third biggest killer in the UK? Or that about 150,000 people have a stroke each year? The main risk factor for a stroke is high blood pressure, which means there are many commonsense measures people can take to reduce
It would appear that people are not being entirely honest in Letters again. Two letters attacking Colchester MP Bob Russell were sent by two members of the Labour Party who stood in the local elections and lost! Rosanna Trudgian and
I wish to correct Mr Bob Dove’s letter (May 17). I did not write the letter headlined “Voters conned by MP Russell”. It was written by Andy Abbott, of East Stockwell Street, and, as far as I am aware, he is not a Labour Party member. So, I do
I am truly saddened to read in the Gazette (May 10), that Elmstead Parish Council has plans to sell off, for a very large sum of money, the corner of my road, Bowes Road, Wivenhoe. How can it be allowed to sell for development land never intended
IT is amazing to think a charity launched via an appeal at a public meeting 30 years ago now provides services worth £5.1million every year. That’s exactly how St Helena Hospice was born. And on May 20, 1985, less than five years after
