A CANCER survivor has set her sights on becoming the next female motor racing champion.

A KIND-HEARTED support worker will be jumping from a plane to help raise money to revamp the garden at a residential home for adults with disabilities.

A VOLUNTEER has vowed to keep spreading love in the community after a toy box was left broken by heartless vandals.

A STUDENT who fractured her skull in two places and suffered a bleed on the brain after an E-scooter crash has warned riders to wear helmets.

FAMILY and friends of a little girl fighting cancer are hoping to raise £250,000 in a bid to get vital treatment for her in America.

Part of the River Colne quay in Hythe in Colchester has collapsed - leading to a business stopping operations from a building premises as a precaution.

X Factor runner-up Olly Murs performed for thousands of excited fans at Castle Park in Colchester on Bank Holiday Sunday.

More than half of British adults cannot name any symptom of blood cancer, a survey has suggested as a charity warned some of the signs could be being mistaken for coronavirus.

BURNHAM'S annual yacht and dinghy racing event is back this week.

A FORMER aerospace engineer who left a restaurant near Colchester more than £100 out of pocket “dined and dashed” in order to impress his partner, a court heard.

Colchester boxer Tommy Jacobs is aiming to impress

Colchester United have been linked with a loan move for Ipswich Town starlet Armando Dobra

A PERSONAL watercraft (PWC) rider was caught riding in an "anti-social manner" on the River Blackwater today.

ESSEX Police roads policing team will be joining officers in and around Southend and Chelmsford today after reports of two planned car meets in the area.

Revellers from as far away as Essex attended an illegal bank holiday weekend rave in the Brecon Beacons.

Check out the Gazette's mammoth gallery of fan photos from Olly Murs' show in Castle Park in Colchester on Sunday.

ENGLAND legend Peter Shilton is set to lift the lid on his decades-long battle with a gambling addiction through the pages of a book he penned with his loving wife.

A FORMER Royal Marine has admitted his emotions “got the better” of him when he left an explosive voicemail for a Government aide while trying to get more than 170 rescue animals to safety from Afghanistan.

Three Wise Monkey in Colchester High Street has announced the return of its popular Oktoberfest event.

A CONCERNED councillor has told criminals that guns will not be tolerated on the streets of Clacton.

Olly Murs performed for delighted crowds at Castle Park in Colchester on Sunday evening, with about 10,000 people attending.

Campaigning by the Suffragette movement in Clacton is being celebrated as part of the town’s 150th birthday commemorations.

Here are the latest Covid figures for Colchester - with cases now rising in ten different parts of the borough.

KATIE Price is reportedly jetting off for a foreign holiday following an alleged assault which left her bruised.

AN EASTENDERS actor has been spotted filming in Westcliff.

A CREWMAN at Frinton and Walton Lifeboat has qualified as a coxswain after two years of intense training.

An investigation will take place after ahuge fire at a large agricultural building.

A motorcyclist from Essex has died after a crash in Yorkshire.

Here is a list of 7 food types sure to cure your hangover.

Here is the full list of new Netflix content in September including Money Heist, Sex Education and Schumacher.

The changes will affect a lot of day-to-day life for pupils from PPE to self-isolation.

AN Essex couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary... by recreating their honeymoon at a theme park.

A PAEDOPHILE headteacher is at “risk of repeat” offending and could put pupils at risk, a teaching tribunal has found.

CELEBRITIES descended on Southend for a round of booze-fuelled crazy golf, as bosses unveiled a £250,000 overhaul of its handmade nine hole courses.

The changes will affect a lot of day-to-day life for pupils from PPE to self-isolation.

AN award-winning game which gets schools, families and communities active is coming to Harwich this autumn.

PATHWAYS in Harwich have become “dangerous” for children and vulnerable people to use, according to a concerned town councillor.

COLCHESTER was awash with colour as thousands turned out to take part in Pride celebrations.

AN alcoholic with a long history of drink-fuelled criminal activity has been locked up after he continued to flout chances given by the courts.

A MAN remains in a life-threatening condition in hospital after being injured in a fight in Colchester town centre.

A POLICE dog unit has been handed a national accreditation for its north Essex training centre.

AN animal-lover dubbed the Birdman of Walton has launched his own bird rescue service after years of caring for our feathered friends.

CROOKS who ran a drug-dealing operation which exploited children “humiliated” and burgled a vulnerable addict after he got cold feet about helping the gang peddle class A drugs.

A DRINK driver got behind the wheel while more than three times the legal alcohol limit.

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The best bargains hitting the shelves in the middle aisles of Aldi and Lidl this August Bank Holiday.

Colchester United boss Hayden Mullins on encouraging start to season

Paul “Pen” Farthing is safely back on UK soil along with hundreds of his animals, acharity has confirmed.

Police are appealing for witnesses after reports of a serious sexual assault.

A teenager has become the third person to be arrested in connection with a fight which left a man in a life-threatening condition.