Stories for 1 February 2005

Basildon,Echo,Essex News

Bowers Gifford: Robbers break teenager's tooth

A student was today nursing a broken tooth and cuts after being beaten and robbed while walking home.  more...

Basildon: Brutal beating leaves three men hospitalised

Three men were brutally beaten in an unprovoked attack outside a kebab van in Basildon.  more...

Basildon: £100,000 needed for new "parent rest area"

Basildon Hospital today launched an appeal for £100,000 to provide an overnight unit so families can stay close to their sick children.  more...

Chelmsford News

Essex: Dad saved neighbour from fire

Father-of-three Steven Price told how he rescued a neighbour who had set his own house on fire.  more...

Essex Business

Maldon: Helping hand for entrepreneurs

Aspiring entrepreneurs can get a helping hand in getting their own businesses up and running for free.   more...

Essex: Walk to help tsunami victims

Generous Chamber members have been quick to respond to an appeal by Essex Chambers to help victims of the tsunami disaster and have to date donated £1790.50.   more...

Essex Vfestival05

V festival story 1

Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers.   more...

V festival story 3

Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers.   more...

Essex Vfestivalnews

V festival story 3

Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers.   more...

V festival story 2

Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers.   more...

V festival story 1

Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers.   more...

Eveninggazette Colchester United

Soccer: Joe targets last eight

Joe Dunne wants his Colchester United youngsters to put in another gutsy display as they bid to make the quarter-finals of the FA Youth Cup.   more...

Eveninggazette News

Colchester: Lorry gets trapped in town's Dutch Quarter

Another trucker landed himself in a "lorry bother" after trying to squeeze his HGV through the narrow streets of Colchester's medieval Dutch Quarter.   more...

Halstead: Decision over new houses deferred

Councillors have deferred a review of planning refusal for three new houses in Halstead.   more...

Boxted: Fuel tank blaze

A fuel tank burst into flames as it was being cut in half ready to be taken away.   more...

Fordham Heath: Elderly woman's con ordeal

Conmen followed an elderly woman into her home and forced her to hand over cash.   more...

Clacton, Jaywick: Angling boat in trouble

Clacton's inshore lifeboat crew was called out to help an angling boat after it suffered engine failure off Jaywick.   more...

Writtle: Karate teacher admits assaulting police officer

A karate teacher, who admitted assaulting a police officer while being drunk and disorderly, has received a community punishment order.   more...

Colchester: Medical hopes for university

Essex University is preparing a bid to ensure Colchester is first in the queue if the Government decides a new medical school is needed in Britain.   more...

Harwich: Debbie 'so happy' at TV makeover

A community worker has told how happy she is since having cosmetic surgery as part of a TV programme aiming to knock years off her age.   more...

Clacton: Man hit security guard

A man who hit a security guard because he thought a woman was in danger has been given a community punishment order.   more...

Chelmsford: Judge tells man not to go home

A judge has told a man caught with thousands of child porn pictures not to return to his home - which overlooks a school.   more...

Colchester; Cinema mops up

Cinema staff are mopping up after a leak flooded a special party room.   more...

Clacton: Man jailed for taking groceries

Shoplifting groceries because he did not have any money to pay for them left a man with six days in prison.   more...

Mid-Essex: Tributes to tragic Nadia, 19

The parents of a teenager who died after a 13-year battle with brain tumours today paid tribute to their "incredible" child.   more...

Colchester: Driver had 25 pints of lager

A man has been jailed for four months after drinking 25 pints of lager before driving.   more...

Witham: House fire kills man, 64

A man has died in a fire in Witham.   more...

North Essex: Fatal crash - driver held

A lorry driver has been arrested after a van driver died in a head-on crash.   more...

North Essex: 'My brother deserved to get life'

The sister of a man who bludgeoned their mother to death with a hammer and stamped on her head said he deserved his life sentence.   more...

Chelmsford: Couple's lucky escape

An elderly couple had an extraordinary escape after their car came off the Army and Navy flyover and landed on its roof.   more...

Witham, Colchester: Cameras key to tracing lost boys

A sharp-eyed shopkeeper, who alerted CCTV operators, was the key to tracing three missing boys.   more...

Eveninggazette Sport

Rugby Union: Theford 5-8 Mersea I (Powergen London League Division Four NE)

Mersea Island's win against bottom-placed Thetford may not have been pretty, but the result was the all-important factor.   more...

Rugby Union: Colchester 14-12 West Norfolk (Powergen London League Division Four NE)

Colchester gained two valuable points after winning this closely-contested match.   more...

Athletics: Sarah sets another PB

Sarah Claxton stormed to her second personal best of the year at the Five-Nations tournament in Glasgow.   more...

Soccer: Joe targets last eight

Joe Dunne wants his Colchester United youngsters to put in another gutsy display as they bid to make the quarter-finals of the FA Youth Cup.   more...

Southend,Echo,Essex News

Westcliff: Drunk killer gets six years behind bars

A drink driver was today starting six years behind bars after killing a Westcliff man as he drove on the wrong side of a dual-carriageway.  more...

Southend: pram-pushing mum clumps policeman

A mum punched a police officer while being arrested for being drunk in charge of her baby and two year-old son, a court heard.  more...

Southend,Echo,Essex Sport

Rugby Union: Southend 19-17 Old Patesians

SOUTHEND put more breathing space between themselves and the relegation zone by beating visitors Old Patesians by the most slender of margins.  more...

Soccer: Dagenham & Redbridge 3-1 Canvey Island

CANVEY boss Jeff King slammed his side's "diabolical defending"as the Islanders crashed to their seventh successive Conference away defeat at Dagenham and Redbridge last night.  more...

Soccer: Blues threaten FIFA with court action

SOUTHEND United supremo Ron Martin is set to fight FIFA's decision to impose a transfer window in the lower leagues from the start of next season.   more...

Netball: Woodlands girls net finals place

THE under-16 girls from Basildon's Woodlands School are having their best netball season for 17 years.  more...

Soccer: Waters stars in Deaflympics triumph

BASILDON's Carly Waters has helped Great Britain's women's footballers to a bronze medal in the recent Deaflympics event in Australia.  more...