THIEVES used a garden ornament to smash into a house and steal valuables worth £3,000. They smashed a set of double-glazed doors of a home in Spring Lane, Eight Ash Green, and stole a phone, digital camera and jewellery worth more than £3,000.
THE A12 near Colchester will close overnight on Thursday and Friday while resurfacing work takes place. The Highways Agency will carry out repairs on the southbound carriageway between junction 29 and junction 26 between 8pm and 6am on both nights
Four men had to be rescued after their boat capsized off the north Essex coast. Clacton lifeguard hauled the men to safety after their boat began sinking around 200 metres off Jaywick beach at 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon. Two of the men, who
TOP-TIPS on buying a second-hand car have been published by Trading Standards. Officers based at Essex County Council received almost 2,700 calls last year from residents worried about a car they had bought second-hand. Complaints ranged from
A MIX of military might, sun, rugby and running attracted more than 10,000 to the first Colchester Garrison Show. Huge crowds gathered on Abbey Fields for the first 16 Air Assault Brigade and Colchester Garrison Show, which featured Apache attack
AN area of grassland was cordoned off after an injured man told paramedics he had been robbed. Police were called to St Botolph's Circus shortly before noon on Saturday by the ambulance service. A police spokesman said: "Officers arrived at
WOULD-BE burglars broke into a home in Kirby Cross, but left empty handed. Thieves forced open a window to a house near Kirby Primary School on Halstead Road between 7.30am and 4.30pm on Thursday. They left without stealing anything. Police
BURGLARS pocketed two laptops and foreign currency notes after breaking into a house in Great Bentley. They entered a house on De Vere Estate through an insecure back door between 2pm and 4pm on Wednesday. Anyone with information should contact
IT appears even helicopters need to queue for fuel sometimes as this photo shows. Gazette reader Mike Mackey sent in his snap of the Herts Air Ambulance which landed at Asda in Tiptree on Thursday afternoon. The chopper had been called after
A knife-wielding robber targeted two Clacton teens in an hour. Detectives are linking one robbery and one attempted robbery which took place on Friday evening. At around 5.30pm, a teenage boy was approached by an older boy on Upper Branston
A WOMAN was rescued from her yacht after falling severely sick. The West Mersea RNLI lifeboat was called to the yacht, moored in the Strood at around 2am on Friday after the woman, 61, complained of vomiting and severe abdominal pains. She
