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Braintree Mencap: Fighting for the rights of the learning disabled for 55 years

11:11am Tuesday 5th January 2010

Support for people with learning disabilities has come a long way over the years.

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Updated: Colchester goes mad for Olly

5:51pm Wednesday 9th December 2009

COLCHESTER went X Factor mad as Olly Murs performed in the town.
IN FRIDAY'S GAZETTE: WHY I'LL WIN, BY OLLY... PLUS MORE PICTURES FROM THE COLCHESTER SHOW

Your Gazette helps Colchester charities

7:00am Thursday 3rd December 2009

Three Colchester charities are thousands of pounds better off, thanks to the Gazette.

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Courage of 'bladerunner' girl Ellie May Challis

7:30am Tuesday 1st December 2009

LIFE for Ellie May Challis is the same as any other girl her age.

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Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence

11:07am Saturday 28th November 2009

"Domestic violence is no respecter of age, religion or social status. We get women as young as 17 or 18 and we get women as old as 65-plus.

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My new addiction: Volunteering, not drugs

5:11pm Tuesday 17th November 2009

A FORMER drug addict has credited volunteering with helping to turn his life around.

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Stemming the tide of youth unemployment

5:08pm Tuesday 17th November 2009

COULD the recession lead to a lost generation in Braintree?

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Uni’s £1.5m media lab pioneering 3D patient treatment on the net

10:00am Thursday 12th November 2009

TECHNOLOGY being developed in Colchester will allow medics to watch crystal clear 3D images of surgical operations taking place thousands of miles away.

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Paying penalty for not having triple MMR jab

10:00pm Wednesday 11th November 2009

MUMPS is a horrendous illness and can lead to infertility in men. But some parents still insist they will not have their children vaccinated with the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) jab.

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Party in memory of tragic young pilot Melanie

10:10am Wednesday 11th November 2009

My boy Owen, out in LA, has been jonesing like crazy on a Sixties SG Junior - one of the ones with the P90s, which he says sound like nothing else on this earth.