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Clacton MP Nigel Farage surprises veteran nurse on 105th birthday at care home
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The King and Queen Consort are at Colchester Library and have met Dermot O’Leary . Follow the latest here ⬇️.
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Colchester is a city! Queen grants Britain's oldest recorded town long-awaited city status.
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Hundreds of peaceful protestors have gathered in Castle Park ahead of the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Colchester.
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🗳 We have the Colchester result in now . Pam Cox becomes the city's first ever female MP
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Anticipation is building here at Colchester Arts Centre where homegrown heroes Blur are shortly expected to take to the stage 🎸. They will perform to just 400 lucky fans - including our reporter George King, who kindly agreed to cover the show tonight after not much convincing…
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Here’s the moment Blur took to the stage at Colchester Arts Centre! 😮. As one lucky fan told me moments before the show: “It really feels like a moment in history.”. See you after the show 🎸
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Protestors take a knee in a show of solidarity at the Black Lives Matter Colchester demonstration, in Castle Park. #BlackLivesMatter #Colchester
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Swan trapped in frozen lake for two days will be returned to the wild by @RSPCA_official when it fully recovers
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They stood together in a show of solidarity after anti-equality demonstrators threatened to disrupt an LGBTQ+ History Month event at Colchester Library.
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Remembrance Sunday: Colchester honours the brave men and women who fought, and continue to fight, for our futures. Video by @steve_brading
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There is lots of security around Colchester Arts Centre this afternoon ahead of tonight's @blurofficial show 🎸🎤. Reporter @elliotdeady has sent us back these pictures ⬇️⬇️
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Owners of Coda in talks to turn Colchester's old Odeon into gig venue
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Brexit: a battle against a "rich elite" of "multi-zillionaires" says Clacton MP Douglas Carswell
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“I hit rock bottom at a couple of points and really did feel like I didn’t want to be here anymore."
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Breaking: Plans for 1,000 homes on Colchester Middlewick could be scrapped
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MPs Priti Patel and John Whittingdale join Vote Leave campaign to exit EU
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Colchester councillor comes out as transgender and thanks colleagues
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Looks like there is only one sporting event in town tonight!
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Newspapers like the Gazette are vital for investigating local issues, campaigning for our communities and being the voice of the people. Show your support for your town. #Buyapaper.
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The cubs are the first ever tigers to be born at Colchester Zoo
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The service is now coming to an end, prompting one final parade around the square - just look how amazing this is!
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It was really great to be invited to a special Q&A with Blur at Colchester Castle ahead of their gig at Colchester Arts Centre this evening. Now, onto the show! 🎸
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Here's a bit of an insight into the thinking behind the newly launched and Colchester-based .@BeerMeNowHQ.
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Will Quince says he cannot back Brexit deal and resigns from Government post .
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Channel 4 is moving much of its production out of London and Colchester is in the running .
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The Northern Lights are currently visible over Colchester 😮 . Send us your snaps! 📸 👇
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Background Bob raises 'astounding' £100,000 for Colchester Hospital
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Colchester Institute creating sanitiser and scrubs for Colchester Hospital
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Peregrine falcon chicks who fell from Jumbo nursed back to health
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West Tey and West of Braintree garden communities dead in the water
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Dermot O’Leary handing out copies of his new book ‘Toto the Ninja Cat and the Legend of the Wildcat’ at St Thomas More’s Primary School in Colchester
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Fantastic scenes at the Christmas Day swim in Clacton, as hundreds of swimmers charge into the North Sea.
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Colchester Arts Centre and The Mercury Theatre secure £1m grant funding
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Lionel Richie performing at Col Utd,on Sat.More pictures in Daily Gazette on Monday.@TheGazette
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People are stepping up to help hungry children after MPs voted against a free school meals extension. Let us know who and where they are and we will retweet them ⬇️.
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Smashing work by a number of people inc @mikeclarkyeah.@vidvicii @SimonCrow and @hopeboy291 . plus many more! .
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Labour could win Colchester seat for first time since 1945, forecaster predicts. Read more 👇.
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Labour members decided to hold an event to combat "Farage's politics of hate and division" .
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"I have no idea why this behaviour has come to the people of this country, but I do know that it makes me ashamed to be British."
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Our front page today as we remember Queen Elizabeth II. Rest in peace.
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Wolf escapes from Colchester Zoo. another two shot after they get out of damaged enclosure: A WOLF has escape. http://t.co/bKkY6Z17WQ.
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BREAKING: Jury finds Edward Redman GUILTY of murdering Jay Whiston near Colchester house party in September 2012.
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