A MEETING is to be held after more than 3,000 people signed a petition urging Colchester Council not to bring in parking charges on a busy shopping street. The council is considering a pay and display scheme for Crouch Street, where shoppers currently
A Clacton man is fighting for his life after a hit and run outside a primary school. The 31-year-old was walking in Cloes Lane, Clacton, opposite St Clare's Primary School, when he was in collision with a silver car on Thursday night.
An elderly driver has given up his licence after he drove down the A12 the wrong way. Police received more than 20 calls from motorists who spotted the 95-year-old Colchester man heading north on the southbound A12 after 11pm last Thursday. He joined
A PENSIONER has been jailed after he tried to smuggle £80,000 of cocaine into the UK. Derek Orton, 76, was found with two kilos of the drug in his briefcase. Orton, originally from Alresford but now living in Kampala, Uganda, was stopped by UK Border
