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  • Tributes paid to crash teen

    TRIBUTES have been paid to a young woman who died following a collision in Great Bentley. Abigail Krinks, from Thorrington, died after her blue Ford Sport Ka car was in collision with a white and turquoise Iveco box van on the A133 near Heckfords

  • Rev up for a Thriller from Navi

    COLCHESTER nightclub Escape is paying a special tribute to the king of pop tonight. A year after his death, the Copford club is welcoming back one of the world’s best Michael Jackson impersonators, Navi. Not only has Navi worked for Jackson as a decoy

  • Town Hall’s pension gap tops £71m

    COLCHESTER Council’s pensions black hole has deepened by nearly £20million in the space of a year. The gap between the amount the council must pay out in staff pensions and the pension pot set up to fund them has now topped £71million, newly-published

  • U's unlikely to make further signings - for now

    Colchester United will not be making any further moves in the transfer market - for the time being at least. U’s boss John Ward made his first two signings earlier this week with the capture of Brian Wilson and Andy Bond. He also drafted in free agents

  • Why did council underspend by £850,000?

    A COUNCILLOR has demanded to know why Colchester Council spent nearly £850,000 less last year than expected. A finance panel meeting was told that was how much less, overall, the council had spent, compared to forecasts. Christopher Arnold, vice-chairman

  • Colchester in study that could save up to 100,000 lives

    HOSPITAL patients in Colchester have taken part in a world-wide trial of a drug which could save up to 100,000 accident victims a year. A paper published in The Lancet says if recently injured patients with serious bleeding were given a cheap and widely

  • Trainee Reporter x 2 JA86

    Job Title: Trainee Reporter x 2 The Role: Are you highly motivated, enthusiastic and looking to become a great local news reporter? If so you could

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  • Braintree start with home match against Farnborough

    Braintree Town will kick-off the new Blue Square South season with a home match against newly-promoted Farnborough. Iron will take on the Hampshire outfit - who were promoted as Southern League champions last season - at Cressing Road on August 14.

  • Chef mark hopes he has right ingredients for inn

    A CELEBRITY chef, who honed his skills in Colchester, is taking on the challenge of reviving one of America’s oldest hotels. Few people would recognise the name Mark Salter on this side of the Atlantic, but in the States the name is as familiar as Jamie