VARIETY star Don Maclean will top the bill at the West Cliff Theatre’s Summer Show - which is celebrating 125 years. Don shot to fame in the 1970s appearing alongside Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze and Jan Hunt in Crackerjack. He was a firm favourite
ARMED forces veterans and residents are invited to join together to mark two occasions. The anniversary of the end of the Falklands War is being marked with a service at Clacton War Memorial this Friday, June 14, at 11am. Organised by the Clacton
VILLAGERS are celebrating after a Government planning inspector rejected controversial plans for hundreds of homes on land around an exclusive spa in Thorpe-le-Soken. Thorpe Hall Leisure launched an appeal over its plans for 200 residential units
A MAN found guilty of killing his date in a speedboat accident was not interviewed under caution because of a "mistake" by police, the Court of Appeal has heard. Jack Shepherd was jailed for six years over the death of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown
CLACTON’S Jesse Chamberlain enjoyed a timely confidence-boost thanks to a successful weekend in the Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT5 Challenge. Racing for Xentek Motorsport, he competed at Silverstone - the home of the British Grand Prix - on Saturday
A DISABLED pensioner says he feels unsafe in his own home after a chunk of brickwork crumbled from the roof of the flat above his property. George Wroe, 70, was about to venture outside his ground floor flat, in Orwell Road, Clacton, with his dog
FC CLACTON boss Tom Austin admitted being proud and delighted after winning a non-league manager-of-the-year poll. The Daily Gazette - the Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette’s sister paper - organised a series of ballots asking football followers
A GRATEFUL mum has thanked an “amazing” school nurse and first aiders for saving her son’s life after his heart stopped. John Gray, 14, a student at Clacton County High School, was yesterday in an induced coma in a specialist hospital after suffering
GRIEVING visitors are struggling to find the graves of their loved ones in a “disgracefully overgrown” cemetery. Malcolm Copeland, 66, visits the Burrs Road cemetery, in Great Clacton, at least three times a week to pay his respects to his late
OPPOSITION councillors have banded together to form a shadow cabinet to take on the Tory-led administration at Tendring Council. The authority was left in no overall control following the district council election on May 2, but the 16-strong Conservative
