Tickets have gone on sale for a memorial event for Nick Alexander, who died in the Paris attacks.

Anthony Roberts, director of Colchester’s Arts Centre, has confirmed the event will take place on December 28 at 7.30pm.

Proceeds will go to a charity.

Mr Roberts will be talking to friends of Nick in the coming weeks to get the event, called Peace, Love and Understanding - A Tribute to Nick Alexander, underway.

Nick, of Weeley, frequented the Arts Centre after he finished his A-Levels.

Mr Roberts has recalled how Nick started up ‘Club Svelte’ at the venue which went onto to be hugely successful.

He said: “We will be talking to Nick’s friends and leading the little gang together of friends and associates, maybe some people who were involved in the club from back then.

“We will have a little get together and raise a little glass and kick some ideas around and will make it a good night.”

He added: “We want to bring the community together to share a memory and it is fitting to do it in a place where he was so successful.”

Nick, who was 36, had been working as merchandise manager for rock band Eagles of Death Metal, when terrorists stormed the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital on November 13.

Eighty-nine people were killed and more than 130 lost their lives across the city.

Nick grew up in Clacton Road, Weeley, where his parents Barry and Sheelagh and sister Zoe still live.

Nick attended St James’s Primary School in Colchester and Colchester Royal Grammar School.

Zoe, paid tribute to him last week exclusively in the Gazette and later and also told Channel 4 News the terrorists are "not worth our hatred".

She added: “It's not worth our energy to focus on misery. We need to move forward with life and life is for living, life is for laughing. That's how we intend to remember Nick.

"The best thing we can do in light of these atrocities is to smile and carry forward and keep living life and keep embracing life and that is the biggest victory we can all have against these kind of horrors."

Ms Alexander said the family had "hoped and waited" for news of Mr Alexander's safety but realised their worst fears were a reality when Scotland Yard told them they were sending a car round.

She said her brother was "still part of our family and he is giving us the strength as well to move forward".

"It was a waste of life but it wasn't a wasted life and we need to focus on that message of positivity."

For tickets to the event cost £10.

Visit www.colchesterartscentre.com/ or call 01206 500900.