A CAMPAIGN to tackle litter in Halstead has been welcomed. The scheme involves Braintree Council working with fast food outlets and other businesses to find ways of reducing rubbish. Educational material and fines of £50, increasing to £75 if not paid
CHILDREN are being offered a new way to learn at a Colchester primary school. About 175 pupils at Myland Primary School, Mill Road, have become part of the Colchester Children’s University. Every time they take part in learning-based activities outside
A FEMALE cop whose team made 50 arrests last year has been honoured as Colchester’s top thief-catcher. Nicola Tanwair has been named the town’s top cop for 2010 by the Colchester Association for the Protection of Property. She has been honoured for
A TEENAGER was highly commended by TV chef James Martin in a national cookery contest. Georgia Hall, a student at St Mary’s School, Colchester, made it through to the south of England regional finals of the competition. She was given an hour to make
COLCHESTER MP Bob Russell has hit out at a government quango which published details of an expenses claim it initially rejected. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority yesterday published details of claims by 125 MPs for costs incurred which
A COLCHESTER-BASED soldier has been repatriated to the UK after being killed by an explosion in Afghanistan. Private Martin Bell, of Second Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, ignored an order to go the aid of a wounded comrade. But the brave decision
COLCHESTER’S Conservatives have revealed the way they think the borough council should spend its £20million budget next year. Placing Colchester Leisure World into a trust and dramatically limiting plans to halve grants given to parish councils are the
SCHEMES which name and shame drivers responsible for damaging grass verges are gaining popularity in Colchester. Welshwood Park Residents’ Association has announced plans to photograph cars parking on verges in Welshwood Park Road and post them on the
THE Government’s new website mapping crime and trouble hotspots has revealed Greenstead, pictured above, as Colchester’s worst neighbourhood. According to www.police.uk, more offences were committed on the estate last month than any other residential
THERE were no MiG-28s or battles in the sky, but pretty demanding health and safety regulations about helicopter blades and civilian authorisation forms. I drove to the RAF base, with a photographer, at a time I normally only see if I am returning home
ALAN Faulkner openly admits not a lot of people know much about the Rotary. Ask Joe Public what the movement does and you’re likely to draw blank looks, he says. As the founding president of one of the clubs in Colchester, he’s devoted
AN elderly woman has been left “very shaken” after coming across an armed burglar in her home at night. The woman came across the man, who threatened her with a knife, in the dining room of her house in Oxford Road. She said he pointed an object,
Steven Gillespie said referee Darren Sheldrake admitted making a “massive mistake” after disallowing his goal at Charlton Athletic. Colchester United were cruelly denied a legitimate goal at the Valley on Tuesday night, after the Surrey-based
A NEW awards scheme to honour those who go beyond the call of duty to serve the Colchester community is gathering pace. Colchester Trinity Rotary Club and the Gazette launched the awards a month ago and we’ve been hearing of people who make
ESSEX County Council is predicting it will have cut costs by almost £150 million in two years, by March. The council is trying to make £300 million worth of savings in four years. £60 million in savings were made in 2009/10 with about £90 million
Colchester councillor Gerard Oxford was quoted several times in the Gazette (January 27) in regard to the bus route 8/8A in Gavin Way. It was reported he had now discovered the Section 106 agreement between the council and the developer agreeing
A COUNCIL has put forward one of its toughest ever financial programmes as it attempts to tackle a £126 million budget deficit, and more cuts could still follow. Major building programmes will be slashed along with some jobs and services but council
I’d like to give my view on an article in the Gazette (January 31) headlined: “Fined – for helping a disabled shopper.” I totally agree with taxi driver Kenneth Winfield’s request that the council should rethink parking rules for taxis etc who
I’d like to respond to your article (Gazette, January 27) about changes to some of our sheltered schemes. I’d like to reassure residents at Heathfields House and the Cannons, the two extra-care schemes we run which were mentioned in the article
I am a student at St Benedict’s College and am writing about the article on our protest (Gazette, January 31). It said Year 10s and 11s took part and the majority of students were in the lessons. That is not true. Years 7, 8 and 9 were involved
In the lead letter in Tuesday’s Gazette, Andy Abbott criticised me for not responding to an invitation to attend an “anticuts” meeting at Colchester Town Hall tomorrow evening. The letter of invitation to me was dated Sunday, January 30, and
A POSTIE’S partner ended up giving him a special delivery of their own when their baby was born at home. Postman Dean Chappell, 42, found himself delivering his own son on Sunday after he and his partner, Sally Woods, left it too late to get
