18th April, 2013
We’ve blogged before to give you the heads up about the Destination Colchester AGM taking place at Slack Space on the evening of 24th April. The agenda has now been distributed, and as with most campaigning groups, it’s all about Events, Dear Boy… Following the Welcome and Introductions [hellooo!] the Reports of the Chairman, Secretary [...]
17th April, 2013
HONK! Um, WOOF! Wanna enter your Sunny Colch canine in a local dog contest? COURSE you do! Good news then that the local group Nurture Dogs is staging such a show at Mill Lane, Dedham on 27th April. Categories include the Dog with the Waggiest Tale, the Prettiest Bitch and the Most Appealing Eyes. A [...]
16th April, 2013
It’s The Chronic blog post theme that keeps on giving – yep, time for another Colchester24 plug. Hurrah! We could of course keep on cutting and pasting the blurb from previous blog posts all about the ACE Colchester24. But the ever-changing locations of the exhibition merits something a little more special. You may remember how [...]
15th April, 2013
And so now that the online knee jerk response has died down over the political knee jerk decision to suspend the Traffic Regulations Orders along the High Street, what the chuffers have we learnt since the MAJOR U-turn last Thursday? Um… CIVIL WAR [aha!] may be about to break out between the Essex County Council [...]
13th April, 2013
Y’see the thing about the forthcoming Colchester Comedy Festival is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. You don’t say. Sure the BIG HITTERS of comedy are coming to Sunny Colch to add a little spark to the bill. Jimmy Carr, Mark Steel and Richard Herring – all are coming to Britain’s Oldest Recorded, all [...]
12th April, 2013
This piece was kindly researched and written by Lee Wakefield. We’re happy to publish any guest blog posts that highlight anyone doing anything interesting around the town. “A lot of the songs relate in some way to where we’re from,” Dingus Khan tell me, regarding surroundings and songwriting. “It’s best to try and keep things [...]
11th April, 2013
Well that didn’t last long, did it? Less than a month after introducing a trial for pedestrianisation of the High Street (that isn’t really pedestrianisation…) Essex County Council has backtracked and has now scrapped the proposed eighteen-month scheme. The ban on cars driving down the High Street during the daytime will officially come to an [...]
11th April, 2013
Blimey – was it really over a year ago since we last blogged about the BRILLIANT Essex Castle Bicycle Ride? The wheels of blogging – they keep-a-turn, turn, turning etc. Much like the pedal power that you will need if you want to complete any of the three routes when the Essex Castle Ride rolls [...]
10th April, 2013
Have Your Say – we continually blog about how bloody BRILLIANT this is at Colchester Borough Council Cabinet and Full Council. It allows any residents / customers / consumers to eyeball the hyperlocal politicians and to ‘politely put any concerns’ their way. And whaddya know – now you can do the same with the top [...]
9th April, 2013
Billed as ‘The View from the Top’, the bottom up approach from Colchester Borough Council Chief Executive Adrian Pritchard at the old Bus Station Waiting Room on Monday evening somehow managed to meet in the middle. After much dialogue about opening up new channels between CBC – both online and offline – it was very [...]
