Richard Mills was sentenced to 16 months in prison. 

Richard Mills, 39, approached the girl in a shop while she was with two of her friends.

Man jailed for sexually assaulting young girl as she shopped with friends 

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Colchester Hospital picket line 

Bosses at the NHS trust have announced a decision to outsource cleaners, porters and other facilities staff from April.

Striking NHS staff vow to continue fight as 350 jobs come under threat

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder more than ten years after an attack in Colchester in 2014 left Stuart Coldicott paraplegic. 
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Stuart Coldicott died this year, ten years after sustaining a serious head injury.

Murder arrest a decade after attack left 'dearly loved' man paralysed 

ANG 301024 Wethersfield FC's team of asylum seekers.

Asylum seekers living at the former RAF Wethersfield base in Essex have been helped to found their own football team.

Wethersfield FC: The asylum seekers who formed a football team

Undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Farhad Mohammad, 46, from Colchester in Essex, who was found guilty of two charges of funding terrorism by making money transfers to his nephew Idris Usman in Syria. On Wednesday, Judge Angela Rafferty KC handed him a three-year community order at the Old Bailey. She also ordered him to complete 250 hours of unpaid work, be subject to electronically monitored curfew and complete a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement. Issue date: Wednesday October 23, 2024.
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Farhad Mohammad's nephew Idris Usman was an Islamist fighter in Syria, and linked to a proscribed terror group.

Uncle who sent cash to Islamist fighter nephew from UK is spared jail

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 Sunita Men Bhuyan from Colchester Essex liver failure

In the past, patients such as Sunita Men Bhuyan had been considered too ill to be eligible for a transplant, but a successful study helped to save her life.

Liver failure sufferer 'owes life' to change in transplant guidance

Members of 3 Para take part on the 1st (UK) Division drone racing competition which was held at the Corporal Budd VC Gymnasium in Colchester

Soldiers pitted their flying skills against each other in the first drone racing competition staged by the British Army.

First ever army drone racing championships pits Brits against the Aussies

Credit: Wivenhoe Town FC - taken from Facebook tribute post

Taylen Ireton died on Saturday 21 September.

Three teenagers arrested over collision that killed 13-year-old boy

A SHOT OF COLCHESTER'S JUMBO TOWER IN THE SUN ANGLIA

Colchester has been represented by all three main political battles since the war but once again it is on Labour's target list.

The battle for Britain's oldest town, and newest city

Police said one of the robberies involved a suspect threatening the victim with a knife.

Facebook Marketplace sellers robbed as police issue warning

The double gold medallist posted a video to his Facebook page in which he strongly criticised his own party.

Tory candidate compares own party to a 'shower of s**t'

Police at Buffett Way in Colchester where they were called to reports of concern for the welfare of a baby.
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The man and woman were arrested after the death of a baby described by police as only "weeks old".

Pair arrested over baby death face no further action

The latest development brings the total number of people arrested to five. The latest police action follows a series of raids in South East London.

Two more arrests over deaths of three people who used contaminated heroin 

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Essex Police

Police have been out on patrol visiting drug users after three people died after taking suspected rogue heroin.

Police warn drug users after deaths connected with tainted heroin

Three people have been arrested over the supply of Class A drugs following the deaths of three people in the same city since the weekend. 

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