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Waking up Colchester weekday mornings it's Pete Chapman at Breakfast and Martin Roscoe has the soundtrack to your workday afternoons 1pm - 4pm. Andy Stevens has 3 hours of 80's music on Sunday mornings with 80's Sunday and Lawrence Ladbrook plays the biggest soul classics Saturday & Sunday evenings from 7pm.
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Loxley On Actual Radio With Rosalind Harniess
Loxley on Actual Radio with Rosalind Harniess – 11th December 2018 Three hours of radio dedicated to local artists, songwriters and producers. To send your music to Loxley CLICK HERE Playlist Coming Soon
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LIVE Tracking of Santa in Shrub End TONIGHT!
Here is the live tracking link of Santa in Shrub End Tonight https://glympse.com/0FM0-ZQCG?fbclid=IwAR2uSs5Ss9IMFoOC2ECZzDOZUqfrZF9OLm8iwb1tkHICkxabHm1cwkEA-g8
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Help Needed to Raise £1,350 for a Community Defibrillator for Monkwick & Berechurch
Colchester Councillor Dave Harris and the Colchester Community First Responders are asking for your help to raise the £1350 to fund an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) for the Monkwick & Berechurch communities of Colchester. An…
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Santa’s coming to Colchester, but Where and When?
For more than 40 years, Colchester Round Table 367 have been assisting Santa and his sleigh in collecting for local charitable causes and handing out treats to the good people of Colchester and this year is…
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Martin Goss – Pedestrianisation of Colchester High Street “Back on the Cards”
Martin Goss Portfolio Holder for Waste, Sustainability and Infrastructure at Colchester Borough Council spoke to Andre Kimche on Weekend Breakfast about Transport in the town.
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Will you find the “Giving Tree” in Mile End?
A family in Mile End are raising awareness of children and families not so fortunate as them this Christmas by placing a “Giving Tree” in their front garden. The tree will be accompanied with a…
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Trio Convicted for Killing Homeless Man in Colchester
Three people have been convicted for their part in the brutal killing of a homeless man in a Colchester car park. Martin Dines, 56, was found by a car park worker in a stairwell at…
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In Pictures – Colchester Christmas Market 2018
On December 9th it was the Colchester Christmas Market 2018, here are some pictures from the day.
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Pedestrian dies after being hit by a car in Lawford
A pedestrian has died following a collision with a car in Harwich Road, Lawford. Police were called shortly after 2.20am today, Saturday, December 8. Sadly the man died at the scene. A 20-year-old man from…
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