A HEALTH trust member has stepped down after a support group at Colchester General Hospital was told it could not refer to stillborn babies as angels. Peter Villiers-Tuthill was so outraged by the midwife’s objection, he has rescinded his membership
GREEN campaigners have urged transport chiefs to get on with plans to ban cars from Colchester High Street. A car-free High Street has been talked about for years as a way of cutting pollution and congestion, and making the area more attractive to shoppers
A MISSING stretch of road will severely limit the congestion-busting impact of Colchester’s new A12 junction, highways bosses have admitted. The £12million junction, at Cuckoo Farm – a key to cut the town’s jams – is taking shape. But the project relies
COPS hope a drunken football fan who stripped to his undies could be the key to avoiding trouble after England play Germany. Police are preparing for the worst if Fabio Capello’s men get knocked out of the World Cup on Sunday. Eight years ago, thousands
CONFIDENCE is the watchword for young people working to spruce up an area of woodland in Colchester as part of a Prince’s Trust project. The group of 14 is taking part in one of three 12-week courses run by the charity, which aim to give unemployed young
TWO councillors would like police present at planning meetings, after claiming they were chased and felt threatened by a man whose application they had just turned down. Tendring councillor Sarah Candy alleges applicant Tim Banks followed her after a
