We took to the streets to ask people what they would like to see filling some of the vacant spaces in the city centre.

The city also has a connection to nursery rhymes, with claims that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" was written there.

THE boss of a Colchester art gallery has said she is “unbelievably delighted” to reopen after the venue was forced to shut down for the public’s safety. The Minories, in the High Street ...

Four students who died after a vehicle crashed into a building in Colchester ... 24 and 22-year-old Daljang Wol. Emergency services rushed to the incident in Magdalen Street at around 4.40am ...

One defendant, who was found with sweetcorn skewers in Colchester High Street last summer ... Also before the court was a 17-year-old who admitted to having a black lock knife when he went ...

Following the success of its award-winning St Osyth Priory development, now completely sold, award-winning housebuilder City ...

Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, was in a car with three friends – Anthony Junior Hibbert, 24, Daljang “DJ” Wol, 22, and Makyle Bayley, 22 – when it hit a building in Magdalen Street, Colchester, shortly ...

The largest grant, worth £8 million, has been awarded to North Essex Heritage for the Purcell-designed restoration of a Grade II*-listed water tower in Colchester ... plans to transform the Old Royal ...

All of them died at the scene of the suspected high speed ... in the corner of a building containing a second hand shop and a Thai massage parlour in Magdalen Street, Colchester.