30th June, 2012
A dedicated centre for multiple sclerosis sufferers opens in Sunny Colch next week. Based down at Josephs Court at the Hythe Quay, the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre will be open from 2nd July to provide advice and support for anyone in the town suffering from MS. This is a specially designed facility that will include [...]
30th June, 2012
Don’t put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington – unless of course it’s the Sunny Colch stage of the lovely Headgate Theatre along Chapel Street North. Any aspiring theatrical teenagers from Colchester will be given the chance of some professional West End tuition this summer, with a couple of workshops being staged right here [...]
30th June, 2012
To firstsite! …on Friday evening for Into the Void – the late night celebration of the News From Nowhere third season at the Golden Goose. We’ve blogged before about how these evening events are more about the social than the chin stroking. This was confirmed on Friday at the sight of kids rolling inside giant [...]
29th June, 2012
And so how do you top the prestige of the International Guild of Town Pipers holding their annual convention of puffing and blowing in Britain’s Oldest Recorded? By staging the UK UNconvention of bookcrossing of course. Blimey. The weekend of the 28th – 30th September will see lovers of emancipated literature descend upon Sunny Colch [...]
29th June, 2012
HONK! Heading into town tomorrow? Not quite your average Saturday shopping experience awaits anyone in Sunny Colch. But then Britain’s Oldest Recorded is a town that is changing, and all indicators point towards probably something for the better. And so in-between buying your meat and two veg [MADAM] and the ACE Sunny Colch charity shop [...]
28th June, 2012
Anyone who has seen the 16th Air Assault Brigade being put through their paces on an early morning training run down by the Colne can be forgiven for breaking out into a sweat just watching. These boys like to move it, move – in full military boots and army trousers as well. Blimey. But now [...]
28th June, 2012
When it comes to Colchester’s sporting credentials, we’ve no need to bang the drum for football and Britain’s Oldest Recorded. Colchester United carry out an amazing role in keeping Sunny Colch on the national agenda every Saturday afternoon. We’re keen to keep the cricket connection with Essex County Cricket Club (Castle Park Cricket Festival starts [...]
27th June, 2012
Psst! Wanna see some pictures of some FLAGPOLES? Course you do. Anyone who has walked past Cowdray Crescent of late can’t have failed to notice the erection [YEAH, YEAH] of the magnificent specimens as you approach the High Street. No half-mast action here, either. We’re from Essex, dontchaknow… And so after all the officialdom and [...]
27th June, 2012
And so assuming that you’ve survived the 4th July Sunny Colch Day of Independence [um, Full Council...] then we also assume Comrades that you are up for some Colchester Borough Council Planning Committee action the following evening. NEVER assume. Hey hoe – which must make this the shortest blog post ever. But wait! What’s this? [...]
27th June, 2012
And so you wait all summer for the Sunny Colch blockbuster, and then whaddya know: Back to the Future in Britain’s Oldest Recorded – Parts III, IV and V all come along at once. Hurrah! We’re talking here of course about the online hyperlocal historical sensation of the summer season, the absolutely ACE video project [...]
