A fisherman has told how he found a body floating face-down in a lake by a Colchester housing estate. Gary Caunter was fishing with two friends on the Greenstead estate when they made the grisly discovery. He told the Gazette how they called police
A soldier from Clacton has become one of the first in the British Army to use an all-terrain armoured vehicle. Lance Corporal Stevie Veal is in the Royal Anglian Regiment - nicknamed the Vikings - which is fighting in the Helmand Province in southern
Builders are warming up to start work on the site of Colchester's Community Stadium. The first temporary buildings moved on to the Cuckoo Farm site on Monday, and progress is being made off the field to tackle the final stumbling blocks before the whistle
Tories on Tendring Council hope to "expose the failings of a ramshackle coalition" by creating a shadow cabinet. The Conservatives won 28 seats out of 60 at last month's district council elections - just three seats short of gaining overall control.
Nearly £750,000 in compensation has been paid to people who have taken a tumble on Essex's roads and pavements. Essex County Council currently faces £4.75m in outstanding claims from people injured in trips and falls, on top of the £739,946 it has paid
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Traders will be quizzed as council bosses attempt to find out if a pop-up loo has diverted revellers from urinating on doorsteps. Colchester Council chiefs spent more than just a penny when they splashed out £25,000 for the self-cleaning Urilift, which
IPSWICH Town boss Jim Magilton has admitted he is keeping tabs on wantaway Colchester United striker Jamie Cureton. Magilton has not given up on his first choice striking acquisition - Francis Jeffers - but Magilton said he is interested in Cureton,
KEITH Fletcher, Essex cricket's most successful captain, said today the county will never find another player with more passion than Ronnie Irani. Current captain and former England all-rounder Irani is quitting at the end of the season after a series
COLCHESTER United star Kevin Watson revealed today he has signed a new one-year contract with the the Championship club. And defender John White has also agreed a new deal with the club. The 33-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur, Swindon, Rotherham and
An angry father attacked a man after he found him in a toilet cubicle with his young daughter. A court heard how the seven-year-old had gone to the toilet at Colchester's Drury Arms pub, but when her mother went to find her, she was not there. The girl's
A cabbie was taken to hospital after he was stabbed and robbed for four cans of beer. Police were called after the man came under attack as he waited in his car outside a kebab house in Crouch Street, Colchester. The victim told officers a fight between
Police officers have set out a battle plan to get tough on burglars. The pledge came as figures show Essex Police is failing to reach local Government targets for solving break-ins. Research suggests residents in the county are among those most likely
A fed-up family told today how they have endured years of harassment from hooligans, who hurl everything from rocks to urine-soaked tomatoes at their front door. Jason and Kellie Grady had an umbrella shoved through their letterbox - and even stepped
Red-faced police officers smashed down the door of the wrong house during a raid in Clacton. Three officers from the Met Police's Edmonton Robbery Squad struck at the town flat yesterday, at about 7am. The single mother-of-two, who asked not to be named
A quick-thinking police officer told today how he helped save a woman and her two children from a blaze. PC Gary Cable, of Clacton, and his colleague, PC Mark Potter, forced their way into a flat as the fire took hold. "It was not a massive fire, but
A fire investigation has been launched after flames ripped through a chalet bungalow. Emergency services were called just before 6pm yesterday, after residents in Vauxhall Avenue, Jaywick, spotted flames coming from one of the homes in the road. Two
Rail passengers are being advised to plan longer for their journeys this weekend. Services are being altered, with alternative buses laid on, while engineering work is carried out. For journeys from Braintree, Clacton or Colchester to London Liverpool
The mother of a schizophrenic inpatient at Clacton's Peter Bruff ward has spoken out in defence of the threatened services. Marion Miller's son, who is 40, has been ill for the last 17 years, going in and out of hospital during that time. He returned
A woman was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a five-car crash on a notorious stretch of road. Fire crews worked for an hour using heavy-duty cutting equipment to free the trapped driver after her car ended up on its side on the A133.
Sports facilities in Dovercourt could be set for a major facelift. Plans are being drawn up to give the resort's ageing sports facilities a much-needed boost, after similar improvements are carried out at Clacton's Leisure Centre. Work started this
