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  • Halstead: £1.5m rehab unit officially opens

    Halstead Hospital’s £1.5million rehabilitation unit has been officially opened. George Courtauld, the Vice Lord Lieutenant for Essex, and relative of the family that founded the hospital, cut the ribbon. Tony Shelton, Halstead Hospital

  • Da Bungalow Ian is back on stage

    HAVING gunk flung at you every Saturday morning would probably not be considered a career highlight by most Rada-trained actors. Yet Ian Kirkby looks back very fondly on the time he spent, between and 2003 and 2006, as part of the team which

  • Apprentice winner delights shoppers

    SHOCKED customers got to meet an Apprentice winner while doing their shopping yesterday. Tom Pellereau, who won the series last July, was in the Sainsbury's store in Stanway promoting his s-shaped nail file, the Stylfile. As well as explaining to shoppers

  • Colchester troops join jubilee parade

    A MARCHING contingent from Colchester Garrison took part in special parade yesterday marking the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Five soldiers each from the Second and Third Battalions of the Parachute Regiment joined more than 2,500 members from each branch

  • Hop, step and jump to world record

    CARNIVAL goers are being encouraged to help set a new world record. Organisers Colchester Round Table and Ladies Circle want to break the world record for the most number of people playing hopscotch at the same time. The brainchild of

  • Teen motorcyclist taken to hospital after crash

    A TEENAGER motorcyclist was taken to hospital after a crash in Colchester yesterday. Paramedics were called to Old Heath Road at 9.33pm following the incident. The man, thought to be in his late teens, was taken to Colchester General Hospital with non-life

  • Lifeboat called to bridge drama

    THE Harwich inshore lifeboat was called after a man threatened to enter the water at the Orwell bridge. The crew was called at 2.29am yesterday. The man was detained by Suffolk Police after a paramedic prevented him from falling.

  • Micky is back on the road with new tour

    EAST End funnyman Micky Flanagan has announced his largest UK tour. The series of dates follow his hugely successful 2010/2011 tour which was extended a number of times and ended with the fastest selling stand-up show in the West End since

  • WAGS Midnight Walk for Robin

    FOOTBALLERS’ wives and girlfriends will step out for the Midnight Walk wearing a football kit donated by a man who died of cancer, aged just 24. Robin Freeman, of Queens Road, Wivenhoe, died of a form of germ cell cancer at St Helena Hospice. His