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DRIVE, determination and care. Three words that leap to mind when describing Colchester Council executive director Pam Donnelly, who has been put forward for recognition as one of the Gazette’s Community Champions. Pam also holds a post on the north Essex NHS board and chairs One Colchester - a strategic and operational group that brings together key partners, to try and keep residents safe and well. Council leader Mark Cory was one of those to put her forward for praise. He said: “She’s an amazing leader and team builder. “Due to her drive, determination and care, she has...

• Essex County Hospital new public realm – £500k • ‘Jumbo’ water tower – £1m • Liveable Neighbourhoods and School Streets – £2.1m • Vineyard Gateway – £1m What have the council said? Business boss David King said: "Despite the severe pressures on our day-to-day revenue spending, capital investment in our borough is prudent and affordable at a time of low interest rates and is vital to economic and pandemic recovery. "This council will do all it can to attract and secure investment that will preserve or create jobs – hugely important at a terrible time for...

COLCHESTER Council has announced plans to invest more than £43 million in homes, community facilities and the town centre. The council’s Cabinet unanimously approved the authority’s capital strategy and capital programme, which will see it invest upwards of £43 million across the borough over the next few years. Further cash will also be brought in from outside sources to boost the capital programme, the total value of which is more than £50 million. About £40 million will be spent on the authority’s Housing Investment Programme, which will see hundreds of affordable homes b...

ELECTIONS cannot be held safely during the coronavirus pandemic, council leaders have insisted despite the Prime Minister’s pleas for them to go…

COUNCIL staff are set to visit supermarkets across Colchester to help ensure stores are Covid compliant. The leader of Colchester Council has written to supermarket chiefs across the borough urging them to step up Covid protections, with the borough at a "very dangerous point" in its fight against coronavirus. Praising the work already undertaken by supermarkets, Mark Cory (Lib Dem) has appealed for stores' to step up further to limit the spread of coronavirus in the borough. The council's Covid marshals are set to visit supermarkets to ensure Covid rules are being met. Mr Cory said...