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  • Sports trust bites back over £16k company gift

    THE trust which runs Wivenhoe’s Broad Lane sports ground has scotched claims thousands of pounds it received from a food manufacturer went missing. Supporters of Wivenhoe Town FC, which is embroiled in a row over the football club’s tenancy at Broad

  • Little gems needed to boost charity funds

    UNWANTED jewellery, collectables and watches are needed to kit out charity stalls this summer. Headway Essex, the local brain injury charity, needs the items to sell at a number of country fairs and garden shows this summer. Donations

  • Humane award for zoo drama hero

    AN off duty police officer who saved a child during a trip to the zoo has been awarded a top life-saving honour. Darren Warner, 33, from Wickford, is to receive a Royal Humane Society Certificate of Commendation for reviving a little boy in October

  • New vicar for villages

    THE warmth of local people attracted a new vicar to a north Essex parish. Reverend Ian Scott-Thompson has taken over as the vicar of Marks Tey and Aldham. Rev Scott-Thompson was licensed at a special service at St Andrew’s Church on Thursday which

  • Arts group takes up the Slack in Queen Street

    A RUNDOWN empty shop is being taken over by an arts organisation, as the latest phase of a successful regeneration project. Slack Space Colchester, a volunteer-led arts group which puts empty shops to creative use, will open in the former Marc Jason

  • New children's centres heading to the area

    THOUSANDS of families living in Essex will benefit from the opening of new children's centres. Twelve new children’s centres have been designated across Essex this month to be run by national charity 4Children. They are due to open this week and

  • Trainee Reporter JA72

    Job Title: Trainee Reporter Department: Editorial Location: Colchester Responsible to: Editorial Director via the Editor Main Objectives : * Writing high-quality

  • Trainee Reporter JA72

    Job Title: Trainee Reporter The Role : Are you highly motivated, enthusiastic and looking to become a great local news reporter? If so you could be the person we are

  • 1 in 6 Colchester hospital workers worried about care on wards

    ONE worker in six in Colchester’s hospitals – doctors and nurses included – would be unhappy to see loved ones treated on their wards, a survey suggests. Staff were asked if a friend or relative needed treatment, would they be happy about the standard

  • What a send-off!

    A LONG-serving teacher was sent off into her retirement with a fanfare from the Band of the Parachute Regiment. Christine Rudland has taught at Montgomery Infant School, in Baronswood Way, Colchester, for 34 years and has been headteacher for the past