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Police have located a woman who went missing. Doreen Allum, 78, had disappeared from her home in Little Horkesley. 

THERE'S no point in saying ‘Ignore the league table until 10 games have been played’. We all look at it, but the season has hardly started, and is decided over 46 games, not four. A win or defeat can move a side eight or 10 places. Having missed

Having a suitable role model to look up to is a must for any young professional footballer. And during his formative years as a Chelsea youngster, Ben Gordon could not have wished for a better left-back than Ashley Cole to aspire to. The Colchester

DETECTIVES have released an e-fit of a man they want to speak to following a sex offence in Colchester. A man exposed himself in an alleyway off Hamlet Drive, Colchester, in full public view. He carried out an indecent act on himself at 1.20pm

A FAMILY drove after a crook when he cycled off with a teenager’s bike. Conor Garvey, 14, left his bike unattended for a few seconds outside Cycle King, in East Street, Colchester, when a middle- aged man rode away with it. A family in a car

A GANG stole £40,000 of stock and tools from business units. Burglars broke through the gates at the Angora Business Park, in Peartree Road, Colchester. They then broke into BHP Motorsport, Piccolo Moto, Elms Personal Fitness and Signace Signmakers

Colchester and East Essex Cricket Club are hoping to seal a return to the Shepherd Neame Essex League top flight at the first time of asking tomorrow. Ben Stephens’ side head into their home clash with Woodford Wells at Castle Park knowing they

BURGLARS have broken into a home in Colchester and stolen cash. Detectives are appealing for witnesses following the break-in on St John's Road, Colchester, between 10am on Friday, August 22 and 12.30pm on Monday, August 25. They got in via

DETECTIVES are hoping to identify potential witnesses following an assault in Silk Road. The attack took place in the early hours of Sunday, February 9. Officers have tried to track down the witnesses themselves and are now appealing for help

PEOPLE heading to West Mersea’s Town Regatta tomorrow can look forward to a day of live music, races and water sports. The annual event, which dates back to 1838, will begin at 9am with sailing races and end with a £6,000 firework display.

TRAFFIC officers are appealing for information after a road crash on Mersea Road. Two white BMWs collided at the junction with Napier Road. The crash took place at about 2.20pm on Tuesday at the traffic lights. A spokesman for Essex Police

DETAILS of an investigation into the disappearance of tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money from Colchester’s Leisure World are being kept hidden from the public. Last November The Gazette revealed Essex Police had been called in to investigate

Joe Dunne insists it will not be a case of mission impossible for Colchester United when they take on high-flying Peterborough United tomorrow. The U’s head into the League One clash at the Weston Homes Community Stadium still looking for their

A MAN arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been re-bailed. Stacy Clague, 34, was in a BMW 325 that hit a tree in Vinesse Road, Little Horkesley, on Tuesday, May 20. The mother-of-two died in Colchester General Hospital

A BLIND charity has set up a base in Colchester after winning more than £210,000 in Lottery funding. Essex Blind Charity has taken over the former Castle Bookshop, in Osborne Street, and it aims to play a part in helping more than 45,000 people

A 91-year-old woman was left waiting for 18 months to get specially made medical shoes. Edith Nichol was first seen by orthotics specialists at Colchester General Hospital in January 2013 and was told she would have to wait a few months to get