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  • Why can’t my boy Frankie go to a special school?

    A MUM says she was devastated to be told her severely autistic son would be sent to a mainstream school, not a special school. Lucy McClure, of Maudlyn Road, Colchester, fears four-year-old Frankie will be unable to cope at Kendall Primary

  • Homes planned in railway land sale

    MORE than 60 acres of land on the outskirts of Colchester is being sold by British Rail in a bid to raise millions of pounds. Colchester Council will today publish a new development brief for the site. It will tell would-be developers a 14-acre plot

  • Mayor Helen has a cuppa for charity

    A COFFEE morning at Marks and Spencer in High Street, Colchester raised £1,500 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Colchester’s newly-appointed mayor Helen Chuah dropped in for a cuppa. Garry Easter, store manager, said: “It is a cause very close to the hearts