Tiptree's Ali Carter crashed out of the World Snooker Championship quarter-finals 13-12 to qualifier Mark Selby. Carter edged ahead 6-5 before Selby bit back with four frames in a row. The Essex potter kept battling and then, in the final frame, hit
Colchester United have already started planning for their second season in the Coca-Cola Championship. Chief executive Marie Partner has confirmed that U's boss Geraint Williams and his assistant Mick Harford are plotting on ways to make the club's next
It's all to play for. Braintree Town manager George Borg feels his side have a fighting chance of making the Nationwide Conference South play-off final after they battled to a 1-1 draw in the semi-final first leg at Havant and Waterlooville. It looked
Ronnie Irani revealed today he will not hang around and take the money from Essex' if he is not fit enough to play. The charismatic 35-year-old Essex captain said, when speaking excusively to the Gazette: "There is a new two-year contract waiting on
Excavators have unearthed metal artefacts dating back more than 2,000 years. Diggers in Great Tey made the discovery while working on an Iron Age site. Archaeologists are now hoping to find evidence of round houses, backing up the beliefs of a domestic
Geraint Williams walked into the dressing room and found a very different Colchester United squad to the one he was expecting. They had had a dire start to their first season in the Coca-Cola Championship and now the U's had just lost to MK Dons in the
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A room full of smiling faces, sharing a laugh and a joke, a pot of tea and a plate of bacon rolls. It should be exactly what you expect to find in a community centre - but somehow it isn't. What many of us would really expect is leaky roofs, stacks
Colchester went to the polls today to decide on who runs the borough for the next year. The borough council is currently under no overall control, with the Conservatives on 30 seats, Lib Dems with 21, Labour on seven and High Woods Independents with
Struggling Colchester secondary schools face budget cuts because they can't attract enough new pupils. Figures released by Essex County Council show schools in special measures and with lower than average exam results are having difficulty filling their
A charity fundraising team is on a high after a record-breaking trip to the Himalayas. The challenge, the first foreign expedition organised by Essex Air Ambulance (EAA), made more than £42,000, the organisation's most financially-successful event ever
Detectives in Tendring are urging elderly residents to beware of bogus callers after a pensioner was persuaded to hand over her purse. The 89-year-old woman, of Brightlingsea, gave over the purse, which contained a sum of cash, to a trickster who called
Jaywick residents have made a startling discovery - there is a mirror-image of their resort just 27 miles away in Studd Hill, Kent. Like the Brooklands estate in Jaywick, it was built by the Stedman family in the 1930s as a holiday resort. The streets
Residents in Frinton and Walton who feared their peace and quiet could be shattered can now sleep easy. Tendring Council has decided to make the two resorts a special exception, following protests over licensing public spaces. It has slashed the number
Residents and parish and town councils across Tendring will be asked for their views on the district's first onshore wind farm. N-Power Renewables has applied for the five-turbine site at Earls Hall Farm, between Clacton and St Osyth. The district council
A seasoned biker is preparing to ride from Harwich to the Arctic Circle to raise funds for a children's charity. Jim Truscott, who lives in the Wrabness area, decided he wanted to do something to help the charity after hearing about his friend's four-year-old
Tendring's future will be decided today - and it is in your hands. Coastal residents go to the polls to elect their district, town and parish councillors. It promises to be the most exciting election in Tendring's history with six main parties and 170
Town centre traders fear they will suffer if a bid to build a pharmacy at an out-of-town supermarket gets the green light. Tesco has submitted an application for a 65 square metre extension at its site at Clacton's Brook Retail Park. Shops owners in
Fat moggy Oscar is like the cat that got the cream following his dice with death which saw him impaled on a metal spike. Vets where the seven-year-old tabby is recuperating say he is making a purrr-fect recovery, thanks to his ample waist line. Not
Call centre workers have been praised for raising thousands of pounds despite looming job losses. The Woolwich contact centre, in Clacton, received the Team Achievement of the Year accolade at the Barclays UK Banking Chairman's Awards. The team received
A stranded yachtsman has praised kind-hearted residents who came his rescue. Skipper Peter McGrath was on course for Hartlepool from Southampton when bad weather meant he had to make an emergency docking at Harwich port. Mr McGrath, age 42, was with
A toilet block in a seaside resort has been forced to close after it was vandalised by drug users. The toilets, in Garden Road, Jaywick, were shut after junkies smashed open the cleaner's storeroom so they could inject drugs in private. Cleaning staff
