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THE weather has taken a turn for the worse and, fittingly, today’s Nostalgia takes us on a soggy trip back to the swinging 1960s. Gazette reader Colin James dropped us a line with these dramatic pictures of flooding at the bottom of Horkesley Hill, in Colchester. They were taken midway through the decade and show the problems caused by the rising River Stour. As you can see, buses struggled to get through and a white car can be seen bobbing in the water.
In deep water - the flooded River Stour at Horkesley Hill, in the mid-1960s The flooding was so severe that the bridge on the A134 was completely washed away, cutting off the old road that went through Nayland.
Owen Hooper pleaded not guilty at Ipswich Crown Court
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A 19-year-old Essex man has denied supplying Class B drugs and will face a trial next year.
Owen Hooper, of Garden Field Cottages, Little Horkesley, near Colchester, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
Hooper pleaded not guilty to a single charge of possessing Class B drugs (cannabis) with intent to supply on February 11, 2020.
A further case management hearing will take place on July 16.
Hooper s trial has been placed in a two-week warned list for May 16, 2022.
Judge Rupert Overbury apologised to Hooper for the length of time before his trial and said that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the most complex and serious cases have to take priority.
Some of the strange world record which were achieved in Essex You may think records are there to be broken. But in some cases, records are made simply because no one else has come up with them yet. But the weird and quirky records are the ones that stick in the memory, and there have been plenty attempts made in Essex in year’s gone by. From the longest ever daisy chain to having the largest crochet hook there have been some truly unusual attempts. So here we look at some of the ones which you probably don’t know about.