Firefighters tackled a kitchen blaze at a detached bungalow. The fire started at 11am on Sunday at the home in The Street, Kirby-le-Soken. Two crews from Frinton Fire Station entered the house and extinguished the flames within half an hour. No-one
A worried wife alerted coastguards after her husband failed to phone home. The Walton lifeboat was put into action on Friday to search for the man who had not returned or called his wife by 7.50pm after a day out sailing. The search
A van caught fire outside a Colchester church. The vehicle was parked near St Andrew’s Church in Forest Road, Greenstead, at 3am on Saturday when the blaze began. Crews from Colchester Fire Station, who extinguished the fire, said it is not believed
An investigation is underway into the cause of a garage fire. The garage in Charles Street, Colchester, caught light at 9.20pm on Saturday. Firefighters from Colchester and Mersea extinguished the flames within 15 minutes. They are unsure yet what
I HAD an old man call me Hitler once,” traffic warden Lisa Hinman tells me. Of all the things I heard spending a morning with Colchester’s civil enforcement officers, this was perhaps the least surprising. Lisa, who works for the North Essex Parking
A DRUMMER who has played and partied with rock legends has written his life story. Paul Francis, from Great Horkesley, shares his experiences of playing with Rolling Stones’ bassist Bill Wyman and partying with Led Zeppelin in his autobiography
NEWBORN baby Zayne Ives is a whopper, that’s for sure. Tipping the scales at a hefty 11lb 6oz, he’s believed to be the heaviest natural birth recorded at Colchester General Hospital. His mum, Paula, and dad, Gary, knew Zayne would be a big ’un when
FIRSTSITE, Colchester's £26million art gallery, is open to the public from today, Sunday. It is expected to attract 500,000 visitors a year. Eight hundred people attended a reception to launch Firstsite last night, Saturday. Leading
