BURGLARS broke into a home before stealing and abandoning a car in Colchester. Police are appealing for witnesses following the raid. They broke into the house on Salamanca Way at about 8.30pm on Monday. They took keys to a Volkswagen Beetle
AN inquest will be opened tomorrow after a teenager was found dead in Colchester. The body, believed to be of Shane Warne, 18, from Coggeshall, was discovered on a public green on Saturday. A spokesman for Essex Police said: “Police were alerted
ENTREPRENEURIAL youngsters started their own mini-businesses during a money week at school. Lexden Primary School, in Colchester, holds the annual event to teach pupils skills, including budgeting and fundraising. Each class was given £20 and
PAT Tansley is not keen on water. She doesn't mind swimming, although she hasn't done it for the past ten years, and she has the odd paddle on holiday. But now Pat is throwing herself in at the deep end - literally. Together with 26 friends
A CENTURY-OLD bowls club has folded after Colchester Council scrapped its £12,000-ayear funding. Paxmans Bowls Club, based in Colchester’s Castle Park, was told it would have to pay for the upkeep of the green. The club was only able to raise
DOZENS of dogs took part in a fun day to raise money for the Essex Air Ambulance. They dragged their owners to the charity’s first Heli Hounds Dog Day at Earls Colne Business Park on Sunday, before taking off on a five-and-a-half mile trek around
GRATEFUL customers made a newsagent’s last day one to remember. Hood’s Newsagent’s, in High Street, Dedham, has been in Stuart Hood’s family for 40 years. However, Stuart, 60, has had to sell up for personal reasons and customersmarked his
COLCHESTER and Ipswich Museums Services has been given more than £660,000 of funding. The service successfully applied to the Arts Council Resilience Fund for the grant. It will be used to take on more staff, develop its workforce’s skills
HUNDREDS of homes will have been built in Colchester on former Government owned land by 2020. Between 2011 and 2020 a total of 1,409 houses will have been added to the town in this way. It is part of a programme to use Government brownfield
THE first Rugby Sevens Academy programme in the UK has been launched thanks to a collaboration between the University of Essex, the Colne College Sixth form Rugby Academy and Colchester Rugby Club. The programme offers an effective five-year development
TIM Grimsey described his latest move up the England rugby coaching ladder as “brilliant” as he helped guide the full England Counties side to an emphatic 37-3 win against Scotland. Grimsey, who is from Great Bentley and works as a tutor at the
Macauley Bonne is delighted with the new Colchester United contract that will give him the time he needs to develop as a player. The 19-year-old striker made his third consecutive start for the U’s in their 1-0 defeat at the hands of Notts County at
AUTHORITIES are letting down child victims of sex abuse, according to the Prime Minister. David Cameron accused people in positions of responsibility of “walking on by”. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is currently carrying out
FOR 65 minutes, Clacton held their own in Saturday’s London League division three north-east fixture. However, four unanswered tries for visiting Stowmarket in the closing stages meant the final score of 48-7 was not a true reflection of the game
Colchester bested a battling Barking side 38-0 by scoring six unanswered tries to stay top of London League division one north in a high-intensity contest at Mill Road. This proved to be a proverbial game of two halves, Colchester’s five second
PARAMEDICS could leave the ambulance service in their hundreds due to constant late finishes. Unison surveyed more than 1,500 ambulance workers at the East of England Ambulance Service and found 55 per cent were considering leaving due to the extra
MERSEA Island continued their winning run with a hard-fought Eastern Counties League division one 34-10 victory against Wisbech. However, the Islanders had to do it without their skipper and coach Jon Williams, who resigned his position at the
CAKES were given to bank customers in memory of a little girl who lost her life to a rare illness. Isobel Parmenter, of Colchester, was 22 months old when she died of Langerhans cell histiocytosis, an incredibly rare illness, likened to cancer.
THE rise in violence in Colchester could be connected to legal highs, says the justice secretary. During a recent visit to the town, Chris Grayling blamed novel psychoactive substances for a rise in knife crime. He said: “I have been doing
ESSEX County Council has put the brakes on plans to reverse the traffic flow in Colchester’s Priory Street. Rodney Bass, county councillor for highways, has said a full public consultation will take place over the proposals. It comes just two
A YOUNG woman had a lucky escape after getting stuck in the muddy banks of the River Colne. The woman, believed to be a student at Essex University, fell into the river at low tide near King Edward Quay, Colchester. She got stuck and her screams
A TEENAGE starlet will ‘go the ball’ after being cast as Cinderella in a new Hollywood film. Holly Parker, 14, is the envy of her peers after being chosen to play a 13-year-old version of the rags-to-riches Disney Princess. The Colchester Academy
A PENSIONER aged in her 80s had to be treated by paramedics after burglars burst into her home. Police were called to Ipswich Road, Colchester, at about 4.20pm on Monday. The victim was so distressed she began having chest pains and heart palpitations
COLCHESTER Council could lose out on millions of pounds under proposals for housing outlined by Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr Cameron was in Colchester to launch the Conservatives' manifesto on housing. He said developers would be able to
