26th January, 2012
To Colchester Town Hall! …on Wednesday evening for the first Cabinet meeting of Colchester Borough Council for 2012. We got off to a good start, when asked about declarations of interests, Cllr Young answered: “My wife is a member of Essex County Council.” Which has to be better than the usual I sit on the [...]
25th January, 2012
Following the fallout from the screening of Party Paramedics by Channel 4 on Monday evening, our town centre could certainly do with something slightly more positive right now. With perfect timing and The Chronic was rather warmed to find out all about Support Independent Colchester. This is a new initiative that has been set up, [...]
24th January, 2012
Consultations, engagements and strategies. Local authorities love to wrap up THINGS in all the social sector talk that one would expect to make THINGS happen. Colchester Borough Council is no different with the blue-sky thinking – but purely in a non-party political context, Comrades. On the online agenda for today we have the rather sexy [...]
24th January, 2012
Woh – where to start with something like Party Paramedics, the Channel 4 programme about the @Open_Road SOS Bus and… booze that was broadcast on Monday evening? Probably by overlooking the intro, which featured a young lady from our town declaring: “Welcome to Colchester, you sack of *****!” This was always going to be a [...]
23rd January, 2012
HONK! The Chronic can exclusively reveal that Cllr Paul Smith has been elected as the new Leader of the Colchester LibDems. The councillor for the St John’s ward takes over from Cllr Martin Hunt, who is standing down on health grounds. Cllr Smith polled the highest number of votes within the LibDem group of twenty-six [...]
23rd January, 2012
Here is the online find of the day, coming the way of The Chronic via the very good @MeliPorter [thank you!] – an online tour of our town, as seen through the eyes of an Aussie back in 1986. Blimey. It’s Timeteam Gold for Britain’s Oldest Recorded Town. If only the Romans had video cameras. [...]
23rd January, 2012
One of The Chronic’s favourite hyperlocal projects is coming to an end this Wednesday – but it also might just be the start of something even grander and better. The Bike Guru is completing his four-month residency down at the Hidden Kiosks by the old bus station. Matt Lawford – Mr Bike Guru extraordinaire – [...]
23rd January, 2012
This is rather encouraging news as we approach spring in Sunny Colch and start to think about all things bright and beautiful: Colchester Borough Council looks to be appeasing the rather ugly mess made by the Environment Agency during the sea wall clearance along the Wivenhoe Trail, by planting 750 hedging plants. Locals in the [...]
22nd January, 2012
Did you see Sunny Colch on Songs of Praise on Sunday? Rejoice! Hallelujah! Praise Sir Bob of Sunny Colch! Even for the agnostics within Britain’s Oldest Recorded, this was a brilliant, positive portrayal of Colchester. Much like the Culture Show visit to these parts last September, the TV lot obviously liked what they saw. Probably [...]
21st January, 2012
And so having done the hard sell (sort of) for the splendid Colchester Carnival 2012, we thought that it was about time here at The Chronic that we told you all about the, y’know, carnival-esque activities that will be taking place on the day. That day of course is 30th June – The Chronic has [...]
