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  • Could Dutch Quarter hotel be scuppered by judicial review?

    A JUDICIAL review has been lodged at a London court to try and stop a hotel being built next to Colchester’s Castle Park. Last September, Whitbread won planning permission to build an 85-room Premier Inn on the site of Colnebank House, a former

  • Colchester murder victim named as Thomas Brittain

      POLICE have confirmed the man murdered at a flat in Colchester in the early hours of Saturday morning was Thomas Brittain. He was aged 26 and from the town. The well-known song-writer and local music producer was also known as Twister

  • From Batman to Birdsong

    FOR most actors, landing a part in a major Hollywood blockbuster, working alongside the kind of A-listers you normally see accepting their Oscars, might send you a bit dizzy with excitement. But when Sarah Jayne Dunn won a part in Batman film the

  • Essex wakes up to Mother's Day snow

    MOTHER'S Day snow showers hitting north Essex this morning are set to continue throughout the day. The maximum temperature should reach 3 degrees centigrade. The weather so far has not resulted in any serious road collisions or major disruption