FC CLACTON produced arguably their best performance of the season to win 4-0 at Felixstowe & Walton tonight, in the first round of the League Cup. Skipper Aaron Condon (two), Charlie Thompson and Ben Parkin were on target for David Coyle's
Brightlingsea Regent marched into the next round of the Alan Turvey Trophy, sponsored by Robert Dyas, with a good win against ten-man Needham Market. Visiting Regent secured a 3-1 second round victory at Bloomfields on Tuesday night. But it
A WOMAN had to be cut free from a car after a two vehicle smash. The crash ocurred just before 6.45pm on Clinghoe Hill in Colchester, close to the turn-off for the University of Essex. Two fire crews from Colchester and another from Wivenhoe
LIKE most healthy, active people, Mick Bartlett had no reason to suspect his happy family life was about to be turned upside down. Despite having always been active and playing sports, the dad of two began noticing he was finding day-to-day tasks
SASKIA Clark has held onto third place after the second day’s racing at the 470 World Championships in Israel. Clark, from Mersea Island, along with helm Hannah Mills started the day in third and eighth and third place finishes on Tuesday saw them
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A LAVISH romany gyspy funeral procession took over a busy Colchester street in memory of a woman who had lived there most of her life. A spectacularly decorated hearse pulled by horses left Magdalen Street for Colchester Crematorium as a tribute
COLCHESTER United boss Tony Humes has refused to point the finger of blame at his defenders. And after throwing away a two-goal lead before losing 4-2 at Shrewsbury on Saturday, he says his players must share the responsibility and bounce back
A KNOWLEDGE transfer partnership involving the University of Essex has been shortlisted for a national award. The collaboration between London-based company Signal and professors Udo Kruschwitz and Massino Poesio from the university’s school of
THE FUTURE is looking bright for a charity assisting unemployed people as it celebrates its 21st anniversary. Signpost, based in Colchester, has grown from a group of individuals to an organisation having more volunteers than ever before. Paul
ONE of the greatest joys of getting older is revisiting things you did when you were younger that are even better now with age. Like talking to your mates’ parents about life. Massive drag when you were young, but now you nod along like the Churchill
AN eminent historian, whose research was instrumental in the discovery of the remains of King Richard III, has received an MBE from another royal. Dr John Ashdown-Hill established the vital DNA link to prove the skeleton, found under a Leicester
A £10,000 grant has been awarded to a primary school following its project on the First World War. The windfall from the Heritage Lottery Fund will be used for a new project at North Primary School, Colchester, called Discovering Their Footsteps
TALENTED teenage linguists have been performing a play entirely in French. Audiences watching the sixth formers at Colchester Royal Grammar School have been aided by English subtitles projected above the on stage action. The students have been
ROGUE Twitter accounts containing homophobic and obscene language have been set up by fraudsters purporting to be from a school head teacher and former head girl. Helena Boast, the head teacher of Thomas, Lord Audley School in Colchester, has notified
HORSE riders are calling for lorries to be banned from a country road after they were hurt by a speeding lorry. Michelle De Feo said she was one of two riders left hurt and badly shaken after the horses they were riding in Queen's Head Road, Boxted
COLCHESTER'S U3A welcomed town MP Will Quince to an open day held as part of its 30th anniversary. The event at St John’s and Highwoods Community Centre showed the public what U3As are about and their range of activities including interest groups
A BID for lottery funding to create a treasure trove of historical artefacts has failed. Colchester Council applied for money from the Heritage Lottery Fund earlier this year to help pay towards its innovative Wonderhouse project. However,
TWO teenagers have raised almost £1,000 in memory of a young child with a brain tumour. Katie Murray and Zoe Maudsley, both 15, from St Helena School in Colchester, have money for Funding Neuro. The charity is close to reaching a £900,000 target
A HUSBAND whose family has been hit hard by cancer is fighting back - and fighting dirty. Dean Mason was as his wife *not named* was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at Colchester General Hospital's new radiotherapy centre. Soon after
A BROKEN down vehicle caused delays on the A12 this morning. One lane of the Londonbound carriageway between Marks Tey and Kelvedon was blocked just before 8am this morning. Traffic was queuing back to Weston Homes Community Stadium. It
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A missing man from Colchester has been found safe and well. Tony McKay, 47, went missing from his home at around midnight on Sunday. He was found on Monday evening.
A BOAT owner is calling on a town council to stop charging to launch vessels from Brightlingsea Hard because it “belongs to the public”. Brightlingsea Town Council starting charging boat owners to use the hard in 2007 and prices range from between
SWIMMER Suzanne Warren powered her way to four gold medals at the European Masters Games. Last year’s Tendring Sports Personality of the Year, from Holland-on-Sea, exceeded all expectations at the event in Nice. She struck gold in the 50 metres
A COMPETITIVE couple went head to head in a Top Gear-style challenge when they raced to Belgium. Danielle and Justin Southall took inspiration from the BBC show to make their journey to Danielle’s sister’s Alex’s wedding a bit more interesting.
A GOLDEN wonder has occurred at a house in Colchester after a couple managed to grow three pineapples. It has taken Terry and John Cruickshank two years to grow the exotic fruit in their conservatory. The greenfingered pair, of Conifer Close
A PRIMARY school in Colchester is in an area with potentially dangerous levels of air pollution, research has revealed. The area around North Primary School, in John Harper Street, has 76 tons of nitrogen dioxide per square kilometre per year –
BRIGHTLINGSEA REGENT will hope to take their Ryman League form into the Alan Turvey Trophy tonight. The R’s are unbeaten in four division north matches and won 3-0 at home to Soham Town Rangers on Saturday. However, their form in the knockout
IT’S a busy night for Thurlow Nunn League sides as they begin their League Cup campaigns. In the pick of the first-round ties, STANWAY ROVERS and BRANTHAM ATHLETIC will do battle at The Hawthorns. Both will be looking to bounce back from 3-
FANCY a night with Shirley Bassey, Lady Ga Ga and Tina Turner? Well thanks to performer Ceri Dupree, now you can. Once described as ‘Joe Longthorne meets Lily Savage, only with better legs’, Ceri is one of the country’s most in demand cabaret
STEVE Harley will be reuniting with the original surviving members of Cockney Rebel, to celebrate 40 years since the release of the Best Years of Our Lives album – the album that included the monster hit Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) and Mr Raffles
