Age Concern has entered the row over the future of bus travel in Colchester – insisting the town needs a proper bus station. The temporary town centre bus station, off Queen Street, is due to close at the end of next year and plans for a replacement
A FREE event offering Colchester residents advice on skills and job prospects will take place next week. Colchester Council and Jobcentre Plus has joined forces to organise the Skills and Opportunities day at The Old Library in Colchester town hall next
AN elderly people’s home could use a neighbouring bungalow as accommodation for its residents. Runwood Homes, which runs Loganberry Lodge in Stanway, wants to adapt a house next door for a day centre and bedrooms. It has asked for planning permission
COLCHESTER MP Bob Russell has called for all members of the Armed Forces to be given a medal. Currently, medals are issued for those deployed on campaigns, for outstanding acts of bravery and for long service and good conduct. But Lib Dem Mr Russell
THIEVES have stolen money and satellite navigation systems during a spate of thefts from cars in Colchester. Nine cars were targeted in the Harbour and Berechurch areas in the space of two days. Detectives believe the majority of the vehicles had
COLCHESTER'S St Helena Hospice is once again urging north Essex residents to light up a life. The Highwoods-based charity is holding a number of spceial services across Colchester and Tendring and inviting people to dedicate a memory to a loved one
A TOUGH approach to discipline has paid off for one Colchester school which has seen a dramatic drop in bad behaviour amongst students. Thanks to smart new uniforms, a new headteacher and regular patrols out on the streets by teachers, pupils
DETECTIVES are hunting for a man following a spate of burglaries in Colchester. The burglar has targeted a series of homes in the Newtown area in the space of a month. Officers were called to seven properties in the area following two
FEARS are growing for the safety of a missing homeless man who may be in Colchester. David McDohnagh, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, has not been seen in seven weeks. Officers from Thames Valley Police believe the 32-year-old may be
I am delighted to see Colchester Shopmobility has expanded its operations to Lion Walk Shopping Centre from 4pm, November 24 – despite the assertions from Colchester Council that mobility scooter users are best served by the car-only-accessible
I AM deeply offended by the letter from Val Best (November 2). Ms Best implies old people have no interest in cycling. Well, let me tell her I am 80 and I still cycle regularly to the shop. From time to time, I also go for a gentle
I am writing to you following the recent article claiming that the Meals on Wheels service faces the axe (Gazette, November 5). Let me state clearly that it does not. As part of the budget-setting process, we need to look at the costs of all
I have to write to you about the buses on Gavin Way, in High Woods, Colchester, which some people want rerouted. I, along with a lot of other people, use the buses and live on Gavin Way and have voiced my views to the council – saying I, and
Colchester United manager John Ward was pleased with the attitude shown by his players as they looked to play their way into their boss’ first-team plans to face Hartlepool on Saturday. Ian Henderson scored a hat-trick as Colchester’s reserves beat
A COLCHESTER secondary school could be moved to fields nearly two miles away under new county council plans. The authority has launched a fresh consultation into the future of Colchester’s secondary schools, after its original proposals were
MOTORISTS are being warned to expect delays after a set of traffic lights stopped working in Colchester. The lights, at the junction of New Farm Road and Winstree Road, Stanway, failed at about 7.20am. Essex County Council's traffic control centre warned
A HEALTH trust has spent twice as much on temporary doctors as it did three years ago. Hiring locums at Colchester hospitals cost £4.5million in 2009/10 – more than double the £2.1million bill in 2007/08. The figures were published by the Royal College
ON June 18, 1815, French troops, led by Napoleon, fought against the allied armies of six different nations, led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshall Blucher. More than 191,000 men met on on the fields of Mont-Saint-Jean in Belgium, to fight
A YOUNG teenager who died on a zebra crossing has been remembered by friends and family. Football fan Alexander Ramsdale-Launder, 13, died after a collision with a bus in Layer Road while cycling to school on November 23, 2007. The Stanway
ARMED police units across Essex are to be centralised into a single unit. Essex Police’s armed response vehicles are based with road policing units at Laindon and Stanway, but will be centralised in Boreham from December 1. Moves to shake up the armed
