A TOWN councillor has hit out at her colleagues' unruly behaviour during committee meetings. Frinton and Walton town councillor Iris Johnson condemned some of her associates after the chairman of one of the council's committee's was shouted down by another
A CHARITY football match scooped hundreds of pounds for a war memorial fund. And it was the sporting veterans who came out on top in the fundraising encounter. Dozens of fans watched the Bank Holiday Monday clash between FC Clacton All Stars and the
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Frinton's famous railway gates have hit back after it was revealed the historic landmark will not be listed. English Heritage has told Frinton and Walton Town Council the not of sufficient architectural interest or an important
A GREEN-fingered MP will put his skills to the test at Clacton drug and alcohol charity Open Road. But Douglas Carswell needs businesses to donate garden furniture and patio material before he can get to work. The Tory MP visited the Wellesley Road
FISHERMEN are hitting back at calls by a marine watchdog for the reduction of fishing quotas in the sea off Tendring. The Marine Conservation Society claims the future for fish in the North Sea is uncertain and wants further restrictions on cod fishing
BOOZY youngsters have been warned they will be arrested if they are drunk and disorderly in coastal villages. Police in Kirby Cross, Kirby-le-Soken and Great Holland say drunken youths - as young as 12 - are becoming an increasing problem. Officers
VITAL radio equipment has been stolen from a seafront office. Walkie-talkies, worth more than £1,000, were snatched from the Tendring Council beach patrol building on the middle promenade near Clacton Pier. Yobs kicked the door into three pieces. It
A TOTAL of 88 beach hut owners are set to get a rebate from Tendring Council. Owners in Holland-on-Sea who have been affected by repair work on the lower promenade are in line to get some money back. Dozens of hut owners in Section C, below Kings Avenue
BEACH hut owners are preparing to draw their battle lines. The Clacton and Holland Beach Hut Association is holding a protest outside their prized properties. They are unhappy about the "dreadful" state of sea defences and the beach on a backdrop of
A WAR veteran who fought as a teenager in the bloody terrorist conflict in Malaya has finally been honoured - 50 years on. Nigel Davers, of Holland-on-Sea, was just 18 when he entered a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 500 British servicemen
There has been a lot of bad press about the new fountain in Clacton lately, and I would just like to say how nice it was earlier this week, to see so many young people enjoying the sunshine and the water. It is an asset to the town centre (albeit an expensive
THE first "twinning" trip between Jaywick and its mirror-image resort in Kent has been hailed success. Residents discovered in April there is a strikingly similar estate to Jaywick's Brooklands just 27 miles across the North Sea in Studd Hill near Herne
