On January 1, the country will become the first in the EU to introduce a ban on health and environmental grounds.

Acorn Village, in Clacton Road, Mistley, supports adults with learning disabilities and celebrates its 50th anniversary next year.

Copper joined Colchester from Belfast in January 2024 and found a great companion in Lewis, and together they proved to be “fantastic first-time parents”, according to the zoo. The little one is the ...

A COLCHESTER animal charity is thrilled after receiving funding to buy new equipment for veterinary surgeries.

Eighty-five people have been confirmed dead after a plane caught fire during a landing at an airport in South Korea. The National Fire Agency confirmed the death toll – 46 women and 39 men -in the ...

MORE than £13.5million worth of stolen vehicles were recovered and 15 shipping containers of cars seized during a successful year for one of Essex Police’s specialist teams.

In Mississippi, one person died in Adams County and two people were injured in Franklin County, according to a spokesperson for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. The National Weather ...

A plane veered off the runway, hit a fence and caught fire at an airport in southern South Korea, killing at least 62 people, emergency officials said. The National Fire Agency said the fire was ...

The viral moments from 2024 demonstrated the “power of social media” from rescuing a bee to reuniting with old friends and ...

The records from the National Archives in Dublin show that the SDLP and the Irish government were heavily against the idea.

Colchester’s on-loan Nottingham Forest defender Aaron Donnelly is at the beginning of a promising professional career. He is set to come up against Doncaster’s veteran 38-year-old striker Billy Sharp, ...

Papers contained in the annual release of documents from the National Archives in Dublin show that Janet Reno, the attorney general at the time, wanted to stop Mr Adams from fundraising because of a ...