10th January, 2012
We rather like this at The Chronic – the unofficial video for local girl Vanessa Knight’s latest single, I Love You More. A photographic cut and paste of literal song references, plus a random smithering of subliminal cultural references for Sunny Colch – how many can you spot? I Love You More may *or may [...]
9th January, 2012
And so Sir Bob of Sunny Colch is once again being sniffed around with allegations that the MP for Britain’s Oldest Recorded Town has been less than Saintly with his Parliamentary allowance. Having already had to pay back £4,500 in expenses incorrectly claimed for his second home, the accusations this time are centred on the [...]
9th January, 2012
How are the New Year resolutions going? Managing to stay out of the Slug and Lettuce beyond midnight each Saturday? A Thai curry along North Hill only on every other night? And what of the New Year resolution to sit back, smile and take it all in when you get stuck in another traffic jam [...]
9th January, 2012
The new programme of events has just been published by the Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex. Once again it is a challenging, accessible and rather appealing schedule of theatre, film, exhibitions, music and comedy. Plus some afternoon kid friendly events also thrown in. Trading as Arts on 5 (Square 5 – geddit?) the [...]
8th January, 2012
And so one very lucky Colchester lady has landed a cool £1,346,840 after picking the correct six numbers for the National Lottery on New Year’s Eve. Hey, Madam – ever though of funding a Hyperlocal Blog for Britain’s Oldest Recorded Town? £1.3m might just buy you some sponsorship… Hey hoe. But hang on, Sunny Colch [...]
8th January, 2012
And so bye-bye Bridge House, blotted out of the Hythe historical landscape with a few swings of the bulldozer to see in 2012. Happy New Year, the Hythe. The old girl has seen better days; she has also seen a few too many burning timber frames with a series of ‘unexplained’ fires. The Chronic has [...]
8th January, 2012
With the public consultation on the proposed development of North Colchester now complete, news reaches The Chronic of the fight back by the three local councillors against the land grab by the developers. Mersea Homes wants to build 1,800 homes at Mile End Road and Bergholt Road up to the former Cants fields on Nayland [...]
7th January, 2012
And so as if by magic, our friends from @TheGazette have done a good job of filling in the gaps over the Oh Woe The Odeon blog piece published by The Chronic earlier in the week. The new news is that site owner Steve Peri is seemingly accepting defeat in his plans to open up [...]
7th January, 2012
Eight hundreds photographs of Britain’s Oldest Recorded Town were taken twenty-five years ago by fifty photographers during a snapshot of a day in the life of Sunny Colch. A quarter of a century later and the project was repeated, with the Colchester 24 Trust mobilising the growing mass of local photographers to capture the town [...]
6th January, 2012
Poor old Castle Park took something of a climatic kicking on Thursday. A couple of trees were down come Friday morning, the after effects of the wind having blown up the backside of Sunny Colch. It was all very sorry to see, with clean breaks bringing home the strength of the bluster that rattled around [...]
