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Comedy superstar John Bishop is to bring his brand-new, highly anticipated ‘Right Here, Right Now’ World Tour to Charter Hall, Colchester with two new dates on 19 October 2021 and 29 January 2022. John Bishop’s World Tour will visit major theatres and arenas around the UK and Ireland from early September 2021 before culminating…

Lion Walk shopping centre is bringing a touch of the Caribbean to Colchester this year with their amazing Summer Drinks Terrace. Imagine an immersive space to take you away from the reality and pressures of life, somewhere you can relax and feel like you are on holiday, oh and some shopping too! With…

Many Colchester Restaurants are taking part in the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme. The following are offering 50% off your food and non-alcoholic drinks up to a total value of £10 per person if you eat or drink in. The scheme runs every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday between 3rd August and 31st August.…

The work of community champions across the borough is to be recognised with a new community recognition award launched by Colchester Borough Council today. The community recognition award, ‘Together We Can’, will recognise and celebrate community pride in neighbourhoods across the borough and offer thanks to individuals and community groups who have given their…

Colchester’s wonderful parks and green spaces have been more important to residents’ health and wellbeing this year than ever before, with so many people using them for exercise during the coronavirus pandemic. The ongoing pandemic means that Colchester Borough Council will not be able to organise its much-loved parks and countryside events this summer,…

Colchester Borough Council have announced today that fortnightly waste and recycling collections are to restart across Colchester from this Monday, the 22nd June. From Monday you are advised to use the 2020/21 recycling calendar, which covers the period until March 2021, or visit www.colchester.gov.uk/recycling, to check their regular collection information. The announcement of a…

The RAF Red Arrows are due to fly over Colchester this afternoon as the French President Emmanuel Macron visits London. Weather permitting the jets will take off from an RAF base in Oxfordshire before going over London and then towards Essex. Their flight plan will take them over Colchester just after 5pm.

Colchester’s popular skating entertainment venue DX’s Rollerworld is offering you the chance to have your name on their ‘Wall of Fame’ and help and secure its future. Rollerworld’s Wall of Fame is just one of the fundraising ideas owners Anne & Jason Khan have come up with. Anne says “We have had to…

Since lock down young Oakley from Colchester has spent weeks making hundreds of individual pictures to sell to raise money for the NHS. On Tuesday he was rewarded for his efforts with a shopping spree in Toy Store. On Tuesday 16th June, staff at Smyths Toy Superstore in Tollgate, Colchester welcomed Oakley in to…

Officers in Colchester are appealing for witness following an altercation in Boadicea Way, Colchester, yesterday Wednesday 22 April. It was reported that a man in his 30s was in his van when he was approached by a man in his 40s, at around 2.30pm. The man became racially abusive towards him, hit him…