Football loan moves can be hit or miss - either a runaway success or undoubted mistake. Happily for both player and club, Mark Noble very much falls into the first category and admits enjoying every minute of his three-month stay with Ipswich Town.
Greg Halford has pledged not to sign for any of Colchester United's Coca-Cola Championship rivals. On the eve of heading to take on former heavyweights of English football Leeds United, the U's hottest prospect has revealed it's the Premiership or nothing
We wish to make it clear that Bernard Jenkin MP made absolutely no "negative" comment about an Asian candidate. Mr Jenkin has been working very hard to promote black and minority ethnic candidates for the Conservative Party. We also should have reported
Remembrance Sunday will be particularly poignant in Colchester as the town's soldiers remember their comrades who have died in action. Eight members of the town's 16 Air Assault Brigade were killed in 2006, two in Iraq and six in Afghanistan. Soldiers
An elderly passenger has leapt to the defence of a driver accused of keeping children prisoner on a bus in Colchester. Teachers are investigating claims Gilberd School pupils were trapped aboard a Network Colchester service, finally making their escape
Wreaths will be laid, standards held aloft and bugles sounded at remembrance services this weekend. One of the biggest turnouts in the area is expected on Sunday at Walton. Royal British Legion and Rafa members will be joined by other groups, including
Police scene of crime officers (SOC) are going back into uniform. The Clacton-based SOC department of the eastern division's Tendring district is one of the first to be giving up its plain clothes for the police uniform. But Det Sgt Rennie Chivers,
Red-faced health chiefs have admitted services at a new hospital are still not working. Large sections of the Fryatt Hospital and Mayflower Medical Centre remain unused - three months after the £12 million building opened. The North East Essex Primary
A widow has described her disgust after flowers on her late husband's grave were stolen on the anniversary of his death. Wheelchair-bound Rosemary Garnett, of Ironside Walk, Manningtree, had placed a selection of flowers to mark two years since the death
A local government watchdog has launched an investigation into how Tendring Council is dealing with an illegal travellers' site. Two residents complained after the council failed to force a family to move off land in Lee-over-Sands, near St Osyth. The
Rail passengers are unhappy that a train strike threat caused them to be inconvenienced. Train operators One announced this week that a strike planned for today had been called off after last-minute talks. Although the news was a relief for the Manningtree
A thief has stolen a Poppy appeal collection tin from a village post office - days before Britain unites to pay homage on Remembrance Day. Police have released CCTV footage from the post office in the hope that someone will recognise the suspected thief
Pupils swapped their blazers for camouflage jackets to take part in an Army training day. About 40 Year 11 pupils from St Helena School, in Sheepen Road, Colchester, spent the day at Colchester Garrison, taking part in activities designed to give their
Stars in their Eyes finalist Angie Diggens made her own musical mark with the launch of her debut CD. As well as officially releasing the album, Angie, of Wivenhoe, signed copies of the record, If They Could See Me Now, at Virgin Megastore in Culver
A teenager has been airlifted to hospital with serious facial injuries after a road accident. And in a second incident on the A12 some four hours later, motorists faced extensive delays after a vehicle caught fire. The 17-year-old boy was one of five
Drug users are being warned of a possible rogue batch of drugs, after three suspected heroin-related deaths. Detectives in Colchester say potential users are gambling with their lives following the recent incidents, and have issued the alert in a bid
Conservative leader David Cameron was forced to stop off at Colchester - despite cancelling a visit to the town. The top Tory ended up at Colchester station after discovering that travelling by train could be a strain. Mr Cameron was trying to get to
A motorist spoke of being "absolutely petrified" after her car burst into flames as she was driving through Colchester. Barbara Hughes, of Great Horkesley, was on the Colne Bank roundabout at 11am yesterday when smoke started pouring out of the dashboard
A nurse left bruised and shaken after a drunken student attacked her in an A&E department has vowed never to work there again. Tracey Rice, 28, is doing shifts in a card shop after her ordeal at the hands of patient Christine Wood at Colchester General
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