DETECTIVES are appealing for information after yobs broke into a farmhouse. The vandals smashed their way into the property, in Colchester Road, Layer Breton, between 2.45pm on Friday and 2am on Saturday. They searched it but did not take anything
CHANGES which mean Colchester householders no longer get free replacement garden waste recycling sacks mean fewer people will take the green option, a senior councillor says. Tory council opposition leader Will Quince has spoken out over Colchester
A SIGHT-SEEING feline who went missing from her Colchester home was found 70-miles away - in London. Roaming moggy Amy, 18, left her home in the town last month but was found by a member of the public on a university campus in Greenwich, in south
Police investigating the murder of James Attfield in Colchester have released three efits of people they want to speak to. Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are trying to trace these three people, who may have seen something
A brazen thief stole an £800 cable scanner from a building site. They targeted a building site in Ilex Close, Colchester, at 10.30am on Tuesday and took the scanner from a wheel barrow before running off. Anyone who was in the area of has
A DECORATED soldier has been forgotten by the people of Colchester, a military charity has warned. Edmund Fowler was presented with the Victoria Cross in 1879. He was awarded the top decoration for valour for displaying extraordinary bravery
A TOWN centre restaurant which opened with aplomb last year is now under the planners’ microscope. The Stockwell, in West Stockwell Street, Colchester, opened after a £1million refurb of a Grade I-listed building, which transformed it from Colchester
EASTER-THEMED activities took place at schools in Colchester. Children at Montgomery Infants School and Nursery, in Baronswood Way, Colchester, wore homemade hats and paraded around their playground in an Easter bonnet competition. Queen Boudica
THE jury in the trial of a teenager accused of killing Clacton student Jay Whiston have been sent out to consider their verdicts. The jury of seven men and five women were sent out at 10.49am this morning following a 13-week trial. Teenager
Three doctors’ surgeries have merged to form a super sized practice which will look after almost 25,000 patients. Shrub End, Castle Gardens and Wimpole Road Surgeries are now part of the Colchester Medical Practice, which will have a catchment
ESSEX X-Factor favourites and chart-topping rappers are to share the stage in Colchester for a new music festival aimed at uniting the town. Organisers of the I Am Music festival hope thousands of revellers will dance to performances by major acts
A FLAT caught fire in Colchester town centre in the early hours of this morning. Fire crews from Colchester were called to a ground floor flat in Maidenburgh Street just after 2am. They spent 25 minutes putting out the flames and then had to
COLCHESTER’S Essex County Hospital will shut in 12 months. All 350 staff and services will be transferred to Colchester General Hospital or other medical centres. Hospital bosses say parts of the site are outdated and it is better to deal with
Colchester United’s Sam Walker admitted his side are in deep trouble after the hammer-blow of their 2-1 defeat by Tranmere Rovers. The goalkeeper described the setback as one of his worst since joining the club. But he remains convinced his
