A HEALTH champion for a diabetes charity is wanted for north Essex. Diabetes UK is looking for someone to represent them and help organise events across the area. Sharon Tillbrook, regional manager at Diabetes UK’s Eastern office said: “We already
A MOTORIST in a fatal car crash who had been “overtaking like Formula One” has been jailed for more than two years. Joao Alves, 51, was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court today to 27 months in prison after he had admitted death by careless driving last
COLCHESTER’S MP faced a grilling by students when he went to a question time event hosted by school councillors. Sir Bob Russell spoke to the student council at the Colchester Academy, in Hawthorn Avenue, about life as an MP and his 40 year career.
A GRAMMAR school is celebrating its second ever highest number of students accepted into Oxford and Cambridge universities. Colchester Royal Grammar School had 34 pupils receive offers from the Oxbridge colleges. They have all received letters of
We are looking for Derek and Georgina Clementson who lived in Lamas Way, Wivenhoe, but we lost touch with them. We think they now live in Colchester. Georgina and I were school friends, and she was one of my bridemaids on January 20, 1962. On
We are a family of three who went to the match in Leyton for the Colchester game. What a fantastic atmosphere, entertaining match and a great result! If all the so-called supporters who are bemoaning the fact that Colchester United may or may
It is important residents comment on the proposed plans for North Colchester, particularly the shoddy, incomplete travel document from Essex County Council. I was shocked at the appalling document submitted by Essex County Council, which forms
Private companies are not allowed by law to issue parking fines. The drivers who have received so-called fines for using the car park at Comfort Inn have, in fact, received an invoice for the sum payable. The best place for this invoice is in
With regard to the drunken night time antics in Colchester which were highlighted in the Channel 4 documentary Party Paramedics, Val Best makes some valid points (Letters, Jan 30). Yes, the situation has become worse due to the legislation brought
I read the Gazette article and Comment with sadness – the possibility of Jacks Famous Discount Stores shutting? Never! Many memorable places from my past have disappeared or changed, for example Hythe Quay, Kendal Road School, Wilson Marriage
A WOMAN who went missing from a Colchester hospital has been found. The woman, who gave her name as Abi Chapman but was later identified as Amanda Goodwin, vanished from Colchester General Hospital on Saturday. She was undergoing urgent medical treatment
THE campaign for Cassie’s Law has won more support. More than 20,000 people have now signed the petition organised by Cassie’s mother Jackie and supported by the Gazette’s sister paper, the Essex County Standard. Cassie, who was 16,
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COLCHESTER’S Biggest Bar Crawl is being advertised days after the town was shamed on a Channel 4 documentary. Dizzy Entertainments wants to sell 1,100 tickets and lead revellers on a tour of the town on Friday, March 30. Organiser Chris Clowes said
THOUSANDS of television licence evaders were caught in Essex last year. More than 7,100 people were fined after attempting to watch television for free in the county with about 390,000 caught nationwide in 2011. This is about five per
A DRUNKEN joyrider crashed an electric buggy and a bus during a late-night rampage around Colchester. Police were called after one of Colchester Council’s gardening buggies was stolen from Castle Park and used to smash through several gates
POLICE have been criticised for not opposing a bid by Colchester’s only lapdancing club to stay open until as late as 4am. Heaven Gentleman’s Club, in St Botolph’s Street, opened in December 2009, after owner Jason Newell won a licence to present
