TWO “petty gangsters” have been jailed after bursting into a flat and attacking two people. David Aldersley and Robert Martin forced their way into a flat in Groves Close, Colchester, at 3am on June 19, looking for someone who owed them drug money, Colchester
COLCHESTER’S controversial Visual Arts Facility building is in hot water again – because bus drivers claim its burnished gold finish is dazzling them. Drivers coming into the bus station, off Queen Street, say it is often hard to see where
THOUSANDS of fans got the chance to meet their footballing idols on Sunday. Colchester United held a fun day at their Weston Homes Community Stadium with manager John Ward and first team players meeting supporters and families. Autographs were signed
Colchester United manager John Ward has not ruled out the possibility of striker Kevin Lisbie returning to the club next season. Lisbie is one of a number of players who have been made available for transfer by Ipswich Town. The 31-year-old
A 46-YEAR-OLD woman was indecently assaulted in Colchester. The woman was walking through an alleyway off Collingwood Road at 10.10pm on Saturday when she was grabbed from behind. She later escaped her attacker. Det Con Dave Glasgow, investigating
A playground in Colchester’s Castle Park, enjoyed by families for two decades, is finally to be moved. The news has raised concerns connected with a much earlier use of the site. Roman remains lie buried beneath the playground in Upper Castle
A FAMILY were separated from their two-year-old girl as they were locked out of their house in Clacton after they forgot their keys. Firefighters were called to Porter Way at 10.20pm on Saturday after the family became seperated from a two-year-old girl
A HEALTH campaigner has said the temporary closure of Colchester’s maternity unit this week highlighted the importance of community hospitals. Mums-to-be were kept away from Colchester’s maternity wards for two days after the neonatal unit had to be
FIREFIGHTERS have condemned arsonists who put lives at risk by setting fire to beach huts. A beach hut in Holland-on-Sea was destroyed, a second was seriously damaged and a third suffered slight damage in the blaze in the early hours of yesterday. Firefighters
TWO men who assaulted and robbed a man in his home are being sought. The men, both in their early twenties and of large build, knocked on the door of a flat in Willow Tree Court, Hawthorn Avenue, Colchester. When the occupant answered the door, they
PARENTS of a vulnerable six-year-old boy have criticised Essex County Council for failing to find him a special school place. Tara Scott and Daniel Welch removed son Ethan from Highfields Primary School, in Lawford, after he kept escaping from the grounds
COLCHESTER does not have the right facilities to attract an Olympic team, it has been claimed. Suffolk towns Lowestoft and Ipswich have attracted the Canadian and Rwandan teams respectively, to be based there during the 2012 London Games.
PARISH and town councils are being told to assume they won’t be getting Braintree Council grants to help balance next year’s budgets. In the current year, Halstead Town Council has benefited from £16,147 of support from the district council. If the
