28th February, 2013
And so we’ve had the antisocial media twitter shitstorm firing the brown stuff right back in the face of Colchester Borough Council, but never let a BAD bit of communication policy bury the actual news story, Comrades. Looking beyond the proposed banning of tweeting Cllrs, and the refusal to allow residents to record PUBLIC meetings, [...]
28th February, 2013
A little clarification from Colchester Borough Council Leader Cllr Anne Turrell on the proposed CBC antisocial media policy. It’s not a perfect response, but it does show some understanding, and hopefully a willingness to learn from the Sunny Colch Shitstorm. “Hi Everyone The report in the paper isn’t correct.” You sure? “What has happened is [...]
27th February, 2013
And so whaddya do when Hammer Time is finally up and our friends from @firstsite finally put away the ACE Henderson and Paolozzi season? Put your feet up for a couple of weeks ahead of the new season ahead at the Golden Goose. Not quite. But the gallery space at firstsite will be closed from [...]
26th February, 2013
And so the Colchester City of Culture Bid for 2017 is dead: Long Live Culture in Sunny Colch. Hurrah! When we first heard about the over-ambitious idea of celebrating the ‘cultural landscape’ [URGH] in Colchester as part of a government funded vanity contest, we confess to being slightly surprised. Why enter a beauty contest when [...]
26th February, 2013
This is half decent – that very nice @BenLocker has started up a Facebook page and online petition [Ooooh] all about the BONKERS proposal from @yourcolchester to keep on banning *ahem* bloggers from recording public meetings. “I’ve set up this page because I am appalled by the way Jason Cobb at the Colchester Chronicle was [...]
25th February, 2013
We’ve been hearing ACE things about Josephs Court at the Hythe of late. This is a Centre of Excellence in the country for MS-UK, the charity that supports sufferers of multiple sclerosis. It is one of only two such centres, the other being in Staffordshire. Which should all make for a half-decent blog post, helping [...]
24th February, 2013
This piece was first published in the Colchester United programme yesterday. Time to look back at what we’ve blogging about at the Colchester Chronicle over the past month. This catch up includes a radio programme about Jumbo, Jonathan Meades bonkers TV broadcast about Essex and the return of Colchester Carnival. Two outta three ‘aint bad… [...]
23rd February, 2013
*some* are calling it the perfect Sunny Colch shitstorm. Others are just carrying on about their business around the town and wondering if Col U will manage to escape relegation. Hey hoe. Dirty job, but someone’s got to do it etc. Y’see the thing about living your life both online and offline around the town [...]
21st February, 2013
And so the agenda has been published [PDF] for the Colchester Borough Council Cabinet meeting for 6th March. How do we know this, Comrades? Why – ‘cos we were politely emailed by the Head of Democratic Services with a handy online link to the LOVELINESS contained within. That’s the wonder of the modern interweb. Our [...]
21st February, 2013
To the Town Hall! …on Wednesday evening for the February Full Council meeting of Colchester Borough Council. Budgets, Cllr allowances and Tiptree Jam were all on the agenda. Come chucking out time and the budget had been bashed, the turkeys voted for Christmas and Tiptree Jam came close to a CBC constitutional pickle with a [...]
