CONSTRUCTION of a long-awaited bus lane running alongside Colchester’s Northern Approach Road could start this year.

The board of the South East local enterprise partnership will on Friday decide whether Essex County Council should be loaned £4.5 million for the two-lane busway.

Members will be given three options - the first two of which will see the authority definitely awarded the cash, while the third will leave it competing with other projects for funding. 

See Thursday's Gazette for more.