A COLCHESTER General Hospital medic who was drafted to help care for wounded troops in Afghan-istan has spoken of his time at Camp Bastion. George Meighan, an operating department practitioner, spoke after being given an Operational Service Medal for
THE opening of a new supermarket in Colchester is to take more than 200 north Essex residents off benefits and into gainful employment. The site of the new Sainsbury’s store off London Road measures more than 140,000 sq ft, making it one of
POLICE have pledged to clamp down on antisocial behaviour at a notorious hotspot in Colchester. The promise comes after two men were arrested on suspicion of robbing each other at St Botolph’s Circus roundabout. A 44-year-old man and
A COLCHESTER breast cancer survivor has raised hundreds of pounds to buy hospital equipment by making and selling greetings cards. Since being diagnosed three years ago, May Cook has raised £935 for Essex County Hospital’s breast unit, selling hundreds
RISING tennis stars have a fixture with some of the biggest names in the sport. Children from Leisure World Tennis Centre in Colchester will meet Boris Becker and have their own training session with former British number one Mark Petchey at London's
COLCHESTER’S incredible support for Help For Heroes is to get a boost in the run-up to Christmas. Paul Bentham, Lion Walk shopping centre manager, has donated a shop to sell Help for Heroes merchandise for a week. The pop-up shop will be open at
A WIVENHOE woman has spoken of the torture and torment she suffered at the hands of “sadistic” nuns as a child. Churchgoers in the town listened in horror as Frances Reilly recounted tales of the institutional abuse she suffered in an orphanage run by
MOTORISTS were caught in delays after a lorry broke down on the A12. The vehicle was been left blocking one lane of the south-bound carriageway at Kelvedon. Essex County Council's traffic control centre said motorists were caught in
THE daughter of a war survivor has been given a medal for her father’s part in a maritime disaster. More than 5,000 people died, both soldiers and civilians, when the Lancastria was bombed not far from France on June 17, 1940. Only 2,500 of the passengers
RESIDENTS are being promised significant improvements to a GP surgery in West Mersea after spending years fighting for a replacement. A series of setbacks and indecision over the new surgery’s location has meant the replacement plans have never been
SECONDARY education must remain on a Colchester estate, campaigners and councillors insist. Essex County Council plans to close Alderman Blaxill School, in Shrub End, in 2014, partly because there are not enough pupils approaching secondary
THE partner of tragic former Essex mum Rachel Nickell is planning to take his compensation claim against police to the European Court of Human Rights. Rachel was stabbed 49 times in a brutal sex attack on Wimbledon Common, London, in July,
