A SOUP kitchen for rough sleepers and the vulnerable in Colchester is to be reinstated.

Colchester Soup Run was forced to close during the Covid pandemic after operating most nights out of space in St Nicholas Square.

It will now return from the car park of Colchester Baptist Church in Eld Lane on Saturdays between 6.45pm and 7.45pm.

Lion Walk Church is among the churches which will be providing a team to help, taking on the role on the last Saturday of the month.

The Soup Run has appealed for volunteers to come forward.