Rural Life is the place in our newspaper where you'll find news of what's going on in the towns and villages around Colchester from our many correspondents.

Inevitably, there's more news to print than we can fit in the paper each Friday - so what you read in your Standard each week is an edited version of what's originally supplied to us.

Happily, there are no such space restrictions in cyberspace, though, so we're happy to publish our correspondents' full submissions here each week.

Simply click on the name of the area you're interested in, either in the table below or the navigation bar to the left, to display a list of the latest news articles.

Please remember that this is an unedited service and we take no responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided. Any opinions expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the views of the paper. If you have a complaint about the information provided in this section, please email us at i-witness@nqe.com

To submit a Rural Life report electonically, email ecsneighbourhood@nqe.com

List of towns and villages covered in this section - click the link to display stories