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I’m just popping out to restore my tank!
Founder Eddie Smith started the East Anglian Fighting Vehicle Group when he was demobbed from the Army in 1978. With a life spent either driving or fixing military vehicles in all their forms, he decided to continue his passion. The aims of
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Pub’s new general store for villagers
PUB landlords have reopened a village’s only shop. Terry Hunter and Natalie Burkett moved to Great Tey to run the Chequers, but found their customers were unhappy after 18 months without a shop. The couple decided they could open one
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Plans for homes on Severalls Hospital site set for go-ahead
THE first stage of the redevelopment of Severalls Hospital in Colchester looks set to go ahead. Colchester Council’s planning committee will examine the first phase of the transformation of the former mental health hospital next Thursday. Landowners
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Ward - U's contributed to own downfall
John Ward believes Colchester United should have had their game at bottom club Plymouth Argyle wrapped up – before they conceded a controversial penalty. The U's game at Home Park was delicately poised at 1-1 when Plymouth midfielder Chris
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Women are banned for fast food brawl
A FAST-FOOD manager has described how he was attacked by two women over a row about payment. Carley Fletcher, 30, of Queen Elizabeth Way, Colchester, admitted biting Abdul Razak at the Big Man’s Fish ’n’ Grill, in High Street, Colchester.
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U's beaten by ten-man Pilgrims
Colchester's dreadful record at Home Park continued this afternoon when they were beaten 2-1 by ten-man Plymouth Argyle. The U's have now not won any of their 17 league games at the venue, after Yala Bolasie's second-half penalty gave the struggling
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Walton Coastguards' local knowledge helps save lives
GOVERNMENT proposals to change the coastguard service are causing a storm of controversy. It wants to centralise the service’s call centres, which would see the often unsung heroes in local control rooms lose their roles in the heart of the
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Kitten’s incredible escape after being dumped in a skip
A KITTEN is lucky to be alive after being dumped in a skip and then going through a sorting barrel at a waste disposal site. The seven-week-old kitten was spotted by a worker at Eastern Waste Disposal, in Brightlingsea, after it had been in the giant
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Afghan bomb survivor Ashley’s royal day out
A COURAGEOUS Colchester soldier and his family have met the Queen. Sapper Ashley-James Hall, 20, whose legs were blown off in an explosion in Afghanistan, joined colleagues from the 36 Engineer Regiment and Queen’s Gurkha Engineers to meet Her Majesty
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Campaign of hate against PCS0 blocked
FACEBOOK has shut down a hate campaign against a police community support officer. The page on the social networking site was in response to fines Halstead PCSO Eddy Edwards had dished out. Derogatory comments had been posted on the
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Council holds talks over parking boost
TALKS are under way to increase the number of disabled spaces as part of a revamp of Colchester town centre. Colchester Council wants to ban cars and lorries from the High Street during the day as part of plans to cut congestion. It also plans to make