RESIDENTS should be braced for fortnightly waste collections becoming the norm if food waste trials continue to be so successful. Colchester Council has begun trialling the fortnightly collection of black bin bags in 7,100 homes, which are already part
POLICE suspect a gang may be behind a wave of burglaries at pubs and social clubs in Colchester. Raiders have struck at Greenstead and Belle Vue social clubs and Hythe pubs Bridge Bar and Pride Wine Bar in the last two weeks. Early on Sunday, the Beefeater
ARMY regiments based in Colchester are expected to be spared the axe under Government plans. Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond confirmed last week the structure of the Army will be drastically changed as the Government reduces the number of serving soldiers
DOG owners have been sent warning letters telling them their pets should behave around posties. But the letters from Royal Mail to residents in Bradwell left springer spaniel owner Collin Rossini bemused, as he said his dog, Cello, was not aggressive
COMMUNITY-SPIRITED staff at a supermarket have signed up en masse to take part in this year’s Colchester Race for Life. A total of 29 workers at Asda in Tiptree will support Cancer Research UK by running, jogging or walking a five-kilometre
A HISTORIAN is putting up £5,000 to help buy a pub which has been threatened with closure. The British Grenadier, in Military Road, Colchester, has been put on the market by brewer Adnams because of falling profits. Jess Jephcott said although a protest
EXPERTS are working to stop a pesticide which has already killed thousands of fish from reaching Colchester. About 5,000 litres of killer pesticide spilt into the River Colne last Wednesday. Today it reached the Causeway, in Halstead
FOUR vehicles have been involved in an accident in Stanway. Emergency services were called to the roundabout above the Stanway junction of the A12 following the smash at around 4.30pm on Tuesday. Three people suffered minor injuries in the
A ROAD has been partially blocked after three cars were involved in an accident in Arlesford. It happened on the B1027 at the junction with School Road at around 4.30pm on Tuesday. No one was injured.
ROMAN remains dating back thousands of years will be revealed as work begins on a new visitor attraction. The eight starting gates of Britain’s only chariot circus were found under the gardens of the Sergeants’ Mess, off Circular Road North, in Colchester
LOADS of walkers took part in a late-night charity trek under the stars. The fourth annual Starlight Walk left from Playgolf Colchester, in Lexden, on Saturday. More than 150 people, including 31 men, took part in the event which aims to raise enough
COLCHESTER Liberal Democrat group leader Paul Smith was one of ten local leaders from around the UK selected to meet party leader Nick Clegg. Mr Smith was picked to speak to the Deputy Prime Minister at the party’s local government conference in Bedford
AMATEUR photographers are being asked to capture this year’s Colchester Carnival. A competition is being ran by carnival organisers, Colchester Round Table and Colchester Ladies Circle, in partnership with Signals Media Arts Centre. Amanda Isom, carnival
A DILAPIDATED football pavilion can be torn down. Mistley Football Club’s pavilion in Furze Hill has been fenced off from the public since 2011, after it collapsed in heavy snowfall. Tendring Council has given the club permission to tear down the wooden
CONTROVERSIAL “spy cars” could soon be patrolling the streets of north Essex. Parking bosses believe problems with parents parking dangerously outside schools have become so widespread, that CCTV cars must be introduced. The cars, fitted with cameras
A SOLDIER who had both legs blown off by a bomb in Afghanistan is taking part in a cycle race across the US. On Saturday, Staff Sergeant Steve Arnold, who lives in Colchester, set off as part of a team of eight wounded servicemen competing in the 3,051
AN Essex firefighter has been suspended after he allegedly tried to stop a senior official taking away specialist equipment from a fire engine. It is understood the firefighter confronted the fire service’s assistant divisional officer, Mark Turnbull
A £1.5 MILLION centre for major vascular surgery opens in Colchester next month. From July 9 patients from across north east Essex, the Colne Valley and east Suffolk who need emergency or planned blood vessel surgery will have it at Colchester General
Steven Gillespie has admitted his Colchester United exit came as a surprise. Gillespie has ended his four-year spell with the U’s, after signing for newly-promoted Fleetwood Town for an undisclosed fee. The 27-year-old striker still
IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: ARMY regiments based in Colchester look set to escape the Ministry of Defence cuts. Up to 50 UK regiemnts are expected to be merged or disbanded under Government plans but it is thought 2 and 3 battalions, the Parachute Regiment,
