A MAN has been jailed for stealing £1,000 from a 90-year-old woman. Jason Whitehead, 37, was sentenced to ten months in prison after he admitted snatching the cash from Irene Ball, as she made her way to her building society in Colchester, on September
TWO iconic bands from the Seventies and Eighties who both won the Eurovision Song Contest get their acts together tomorrow for a show of chart hits at Clacton’s West Cliff Theatre. Bobby G’s Bucks Fizz have notched up three British Number One records
AN ELDERLY couple believe Halloween revellers damaged their home after they asked not to be disturbed. The Manningtree couple say they were targeted after they put a police poster in their window, politely asking Halloween revellers not to knock on
FOUL-mouthed Second World War pilots and accident- prone culture buffs are just some of the characters coming out of the dressing-up box for TV duo Armstrong and Miller’s live show at Ipswich’s Regent Theatre. Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong will
Travellers have been given temporary permission for more caravans on a site in Turkey Cock Lane, Stanway. The extra pitches are being used by family members of those already based at the site. But the decision has come in for criticism
THE mother of X Factor contestant Matt Cardle claims her son is “no longer in control of his life”. Jenny Cardle, of Little Maplestead, near Halstead, was speaking for the first time about the dramatic changes to her son’s life – and her snatched moments
NORTH Essex residents needing surgery at Colchester General Hospital are in some of the safest hands in the country, a new survey has revealed. Colchester was given a “gold” award for keyhole surgery by the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great
AN ACCOUNTS manager has celebrated a major weight loss of more than four stone. Dee Peacock, of Colchester Road, Lawford, had reached 15 stone when she spoke to her doctor about weight loss methods. Six months later and she is now in size 12 clothes
A MIDDAY assistant will have to wait weeks to hear the outcome of an employment tribunal hearing into her sacking. Carol Hill claims she was unfairly dismissed by Great Tey Primary School after she told Claire and Scott David how their daughter
A TRAVELLERS’ site in Colchester has been approved. The 12-pitch site, off Severalls Lane, was given the go-ahead by Colchester Council at an emotionally-charged planning meeting last night. About 100 people packed into Moot Hall to hear the debate,
TRAIN service in north Essex have been disrupted. Services on all routes via Ilford are suffering delays after a train broke down in the Ilford area. National Express East Anglia said short notice alterations, cancellations and delays of up to 15 minutes
I am writing in response to the letter from John Lillywhite (November 2). I’m glad he noted the flags flown by Colchester Town Hall and was miffed by the absence of the St George’s flag (the Martyr’s flag). However, the flag of the UK – the
Plans to create a range of family-oriented activities in Colchester which compete with the ordinary “get drunk” Friday and Saturday nights will provide small relief for people who are wary of visiting the town centre after dark. But, however
Just after the general election, I expressed on this letters page my deep disappointment that Bob Russell was now propping up a vicious Tory Government. And, while I’m not convinced he should remain a member of the Liberal Democrats, I must
Colchester United’s clash with Bradford City tomorrow will revive memories of the U’s biggest-ever league win. Prolific duo Bobby Hunt and Martyn King both scored four times, in Colchester’s 9-1 rout of the Bantams in December, 1961.
A PARAMEDIC who had an “inappropriate” relationship with a teenage girl has been formally sacked...even though he has quit his job. John Nicholls, 59, is now living with Bernadette Rhodes, 18, in St Peter’s Street, Colchester. He was
A DIARY bringing one of the darkest periods of Essex’s history to life has gone digital. One of 50 notebooks puritan writer Nehemiah Wallington wrote documenting the campaign of witch hunts in Manningtree still remains today. Now a university
TWO musicians who have cancer have joined St Helena Hospice staff to form a band which plays gigs to raise money for the Colchester-based charity. Alan Spong, from Clacton, and Bob Bartholomew, of Stones Green, Wix, met in music therapy classes at St
A SOLICITOR who paid his family’s wages with clients’ money has been thrown out of the profession. Nicholas Bennett, 46, had run a successful business but dipped into customers’ funds when he reached his overdraft limit with the bank, the Solicitors’
