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  • Confidential details given to wrong man

    COLCHESTER General Hospital has leaked private information after it sent a patient home with someone else’s confidential details. Mick Guernari, 63, spent ten hours at the Turner Road hospital after being admitted with asthma and emphysema.

  • Dot and Fred celebrate 70 years of marriage

    A COUPLE who met at a social club, and had the last waltz, are celebrating 70 years of marriage. Dot and Fred Bryant, of Brinkley Crescent, Colchester, will mark the milestone on Tuesday. The couple meet at a dance in Derby in July, 1944.

  • Judges launch their bloom campaign

    GREEN-FINGERED judges have launched this year’s Anglia in Bloom campaign with a visit to a world-famous Essex garden. Judges gathered at Beth Chatto Gardens, in Elmstead Market, to launch the 2015 regional campaign which will see six new trainee

  • Jewellery taken in house raid

    RAIDERS stole jewellery and cash from a Colchester home. The burglars forced their way into the home in Gosbecks Road, Colchester, between 11.30am and 2.45pm on Friday, March 20. A sovereign ring, a diamond eternity ring and a gold Figaro necklace

  • Stevi Ritchie returns to Colchester after X Factor tour

    SINGER Stevi Ritchie has returned home to Colchester after life on the road as part of the X Factor tour. The former Stanway schoolboy, who featured on last year’s TV talent show, finished the tour with a big gig at London’s O2 Arena. He said

  • Hospital needs to save further £8m

    CUTTING hundreds of jobs at Colchester General Hospital will help it raise almost half of the £15million savings it needs to find next year. Dr Lucy Moore, chief executive of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, yesterday blamed

  • We lost 14 stones

    STEPHEN Kiely and Angela Willcox-Kiely are seeing far less of each these days – after losing more than 14 stones between them. The Colchester couple are among 23 couples from across the UK and Ireland to reach the finals of Slimming World’s Couple

  • Women put on war paint to fight back

    WHEN Jenny French was diagnosed with cancer, she took it in her stride. However, when the doctor confirmed she would lose her hair due to the chemotherapy, her world fell apart. Jenny, 50, a teacher from Clacton, retreated into herself.

  • U's full-back Briggs makes international bow

    Colchester United loanee Matthew Briggs made his international debut in Guyana's friendly win over Grenada. Briggs, who is on loan at the U's from Millwall, played his part in the Golden Jaguars' 2-0 win, in his first-ever game for the country. He tweeted

  • Eight schools get to share in cash boost

    EIGHT Colchester schools are celebrating after an announcement by Schools Minister David Laws of a £6million investment. Colchester Royal Grammar School has been awarded £1.9million, enabling it to expand from three form to four form entry.

  • WATCH: Hungry pet Tilly set my kitchen on fire

    A DOG who had a packet of biscuits in her sights accidentally set fire to her owner’s home. Peckish staffie Tilly decided she couldn’t wait for Jenni Bryant to return home from college before she tucked into the tasty treats. So the mischief-making

  • Streetlights plea by victim Nick’s mum

    THE mother of a man who died crossing a darkened road in Colchester has praised the borough council for offering to pay to turn streetlights back on. Colchester Council wants to pay asmuch as £185,000 to end Essex County Council’s controversial

  • Bikers in the buff come to Colchester

    BIKERS in the buff are set to streak through Colchester in a protest cycle ride. The World Naked Bike Ride group has revealed it will be asking cyclists to strip off their clothes, or as much of them as they can, to highlight their contention that