Archive
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GIRLS ALOUD - TRANSPORT ONLY
02 Arena Saturday May 17 £20 Includes return coaching.
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JAMES BLUNT
02 Arena Tues October 14 £58 Includes £32.50 seat, booking fees and return coaching.
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THE BEECHWOOD BEAUTY BOAT TRIP
Sun June 8 £42 Join the afternoon cruise along one of the loveliest and laziest stretches of the River Thames from Maidenhead to Marlow. There's a bar and refreshments available on board so relax as you wind your way upstream with magnificent scenery
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ROBERT PLANT with Alison Krauss & special guests
Wembley Arena Thursday May 22 £62 Package price includes £35 seat, booking fees and return coaching.
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HARD ROCK CALLING - ERIC CLAPTON
Hyde Park, gates 1pm Saturday June 28 £76 Includes £50 standing ticket, booking fees and return coaching. TRANSPORT ONLY £25 Includes return coaching only.
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LORD OF THE RINGS
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Shopping + matinee Thurs June 5 £45 Saturday June 14 £60 Both shows includes a top price seat and coaching. JR Tolkien's book trilogy has sold in excess of 200 million copies. Now as an original theatrical
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EXTRA DATE - THE OSMONDS
02 Arena Sunday June 1 £66 Includes £39.50 seat, booking fees and return coaching.
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UPDATEDNorth Essex: Man killed in A120 smash
Police are appealing for witnesses after a fatal accident closed the A120 towards Harwich today. A Dutch male lorry driver, 55, died when the accident happened at the junction with the A133 on the eastbound carriageway just after 5am. The articulated
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Ready to go it alone looking after all our health needs
It has come at the end of a very long and drawn-out process. Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust has finally become Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, but Trust bosses insist this is the start of a journey for them, rather than the end
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Earls Colne: FA bans team after game abandoned
An under-13s football coach is furious that Essex County Football Association excluded his team from a cup competition. Peter Lewis, Earls Colne's U13 team coach, took his side off the pitch during a match after he claims they were intimidated and assaulted
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Aldham, Colchester: Shoppers bus to be stopped?
A community bus service is to be reviewed because not many people are using it. It takes residents from Aldham to shop at Tollgate, Shoppers bus to be stopped?, once a month. The bus leaves the Hines Close area and allows people a couple of hours to
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Halstead: Post to survive
WH Smith is coming to a north Essex town. The chain store has bought the lease of the building currently occupied by Martin's Newsagent, in High Street, Halstead. Halstead's only post office will remain in the store and WH Smith will also take on Martin's
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Elmstead Market, Wivenhoe: Care homes ‘among the worst in county’
Two residential care homes in the Colchester area have been branded among "the worst in Essex" by a national care watchdog. Elm Cottage in Elmstead Market and Hope House in Wivenhoe have been named among the worst care homes in Essex under new star ratings
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Colchester, Clacton: Manufacturing firm moves out of town
Colchester is to lose more manufacturing jobs as a firm moves to Clacton. Pakfin is taking a lease on the former Bards premises in Valleybridge Road, Clacton's largest factory site, in a £1.7 million investment. The magazine finishing firm currently
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Birch: Chicken stolen – but returned
A prankster is believed to have stolen a chicken, only to return it hours later. The bird's owner called police at 8.30pm yesterday to report its theft from the rear garden of their home in Mill Lane, Birch. Later the same night the free-range chicken
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Colchester: Comedian Brand visits
Funny woman Jo Brand is coming to Colchester. Tickets go on sale today from 10.30am for the gig, which will take place at the Colchester Arts Centre on June 9. Currently on an extensive UK tour, the Colchester date has been added to her list of appearances
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Colchester: Soccer legend Groves is fined for bad behaviour
A former Arsenal and Colchester United football player has been fined by police for "abusive and insulting" language and behaviour. Perry Groves, who still lives in Colchester, was issued with a fixed penalty notice by officers after he was arrested
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Dovercourt: Dog’s role to shout about
Here's one bridesmaid who is unlikely to run away with the best man... Lulu the three-year-old lhasa apso dog, was an unusual choice of bridesmaid for one couple, but the newlyweds insist it made their day. Darrell and Susannah Howard, of Fronks Road
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Progress for Harwich
HARWICH and Dovercourt Golf Club hosted the first round of the Thornton Challenge Cup, and were drawn to play last year's semi-finalists Upminster. After the five foursomes matches in the morning, Harwich battled to an early 3-2 advantage, with wins
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Clacton: Garden centre for town?
A major overhaul of Clacton Shopping Village could see a new garden centre, car showroom and drive-through restaurant. The centre, in Stephenson Road West, was bought this year by investment company Rom Capital. It has now submitted three options to
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Clacton : Bingo! OAP scoops £41k
A pensioner from Clacton has won more than £41,000 at bingo. The 61-year-old, who wants to remain anonymous, is also sticking by an agreement to give half of her winnings to the friend she plays the game with. The woman won the cash at the Gala Club
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Harwich: No butts for fined smoker
A dropped dog end cost a smoker more than £150 after he ended up in court. Robert Hopkins, of West Street, Harwich, was spotted dropping a cigarette butt as he went into a shop in Colchester town centre. He was stopped on the way out by a council litter
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Clacton: Man attacked outside nightclub
A man was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped on outside a Clacton nightclub. The 42-year-old suffered extensive facial injuries after he was attacked by a group of between six and ten men outside Rumours in Rosemary Road. Police were contacted by
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Clacton: Hotel plans revealed
Plans to develop a former call centre into a 57-room hotel have been made available to the public. London-based property company Ascott Group revealed an £11m scheme for the Jackson Road site after buying the site from Barclays, which closed the call
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Nail-biting finish for Five Lakes
FIVE Lakes Golf Club made progress in their Thornton Cup clash with Three Rivers - but only after a nail-biting play-off finish. Trailing 4-1 after the morning foursomes, they faced an uphill task in the singles with Three Rivers needing only four points
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In-form Colchester enjoy twin success
COLCHESTER Golf Club continued their winning streak with both the Thornton Cup and Curry Cup men's teams tasting victory. In the county's premier competition, the Thornton Cup, Colchester had a potentially tough draw at Forrester Park, which resulted
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Clacton, Jaywick: Two care homes face closure
Two care homes are facing the axe after inspectors found vulnerable residents living in unacceptable conditions. Inspectors have served notices on Glenluce Care Home, Jaywick, and Bruntsfield House, Clacton, after they found beds soiled or littered with
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Youth soccer results
COLCHESTER AND DISTRICT YOUTH LEAGUE UNDER-EIGHT Longman Blues League: Holland FC Blues 3 (J Eastman 2, M Bates) Wivenhoe Youth Blues 1 (L Fields), Oyster Youth Blues 2 (H Elms, R Mahon) Tempest Blues 1 (K Doidge), Colchester Ath Blues 0 Brightlingsea
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Challenge is thrown down
OLD rivals Harwich swimmers and runners joined forces to lay down a biathlon challenge to East Essex triathletes. The swimmers and runners, who traditionally take part in the battle of the fittest against each other, united to take on the challenge of
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Warm up goes well for Smalls
COLCHESTER Harriers Allan Smalls has been rewarded for his fine running over the last two years with an England vest at the 100km International to be held at Cardiff at the end of May. The Belfast Marathon was another step towards this goal with 32nd
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Chelmsford, Colchester: Man dies in blast
A man who died after an electricity sub-station explosion is believed to be from the Colchester area. Black toxic smoke billowed into the blue sky across Chelmsford after the incident at an electricity sub-station close to the Rivermead campus of the
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Thurstable take honours
THURSTABLE School took the overall honours by the narrowest of margins at the Colchester and Blackwater School Sports Partnership athletics championship. The Tiptree school's athletes won the overall prize by a single point from Colchester's St Benedict's
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Gold for Kearse
ED Kearse took gold at the West Midlands Archery Society Double World Record Status FITA Shoot at the National Sports Centre at Lilleshall. The Colchester and District Archery Club bowman put himself in second position after the first day's shoot with
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Fine finish for Schils
A FINE finish helped Dominic Schils claim victory at the competitive Ixworth Criteriums. Riding for Marks Tey-based team Lotto Olympia Interbike, Schils pounced with minutes remaining, despite it being his second event of the day. Schils was still catching
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Natalie ready to take on world
COLCHESTER Phoenix Natalie Jones is planning to bow out at the height of her profession. But, for the time being, a second consecutive Paralympic gold medal in Beijing is high on her list of priorities. Jones, 23, has yet to make up her mind whether
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Good day for Middlebrook
James Middlebrook enjoyed his best championship return for four years when he took five for 59 to reduce Middlesex to 263 for seven wickets by the close of the opening day of the County Championship fixture at Chelmsford after the visitors had been put
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Living the American dream
AIDAN Davison will live the American dream after bringing the curtain down on his playing career. The popular Colchester United goalkeeper has hung up his gloves, after two decades as a professional. And next week he and his family will relocate to
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North Essex: ‘Cash should go back into the railway’
A multi-million fine imposed on Network Rail following chaos on the trains has been branded "a scandal". Over-running engineering works caused the prolonged closure of London Liverpool Street at the New Year, causing major disruption for Essex commuters
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Colchester: PC Helen lays down the law at school
WHEN is a police officer not a police officer? When he or she is a role model, a peace-keeper, a deterrent and a law-enforcer. As a safer schools officer, PC Helen Kingston is all of those things and more, working out of Sir Charles Lucas Arts College
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In your Gazette today...
...why our hospitals' change of name is so important, and what it will mean for YOU ...read about the new community of artists in the Minories, Colchester ...find out about the big break for Colchester band Rosalita ...and discover the difference it makes
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Colchester: catamaran design rules the waves
STREAMLINED and elegant are not words you would readily use to describe Andrew Craig's catamarans. More like characters in a child's book than ocean-going yachts, they are the workhorses of the boat world; small yet sturdy. Used for everything from
