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Crunchy event thrills to the core and gives taste of life on the farm
HUNDREDS of fruit fans enjoyed Lathcoats Farm's annual apple day on Saturday.From apple-tasting to pie-baking competitions, visitors to the farm in Galleywood celebrated all that is great about the...
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Havering Borough invokes medieval charter in market war
HAVERING Borough Council could slog it out with its Essex neighbour in a court of law – with the future of its ancient market at the centre of the fight.The scene could soon be set for a heavyweight...
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Warley not Wall Street - a softer side to Forex at village traders
FAR from the champagne-soaked adrenaline buzz of London's trading floors lies a quiet office in Warley where independent investors get together to buy and sell and share ideas.It is not the place for...
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Calendar reveals a lot about Roxwell villagers
BRAVE ladies – and a couple of men – dared to bare their lumps and bumps in a naked charity calendar.The group of Roxwell women included Andrea Warden and Julia Wells, whose dad and husband were...
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A second award for Chelmsford estate agent
A CHELMSFORD-BASED estate agent has been crowned the best in the county.For the second time, Beresfords was named Best Estate Agency in Essex at the annual UK Property Awards.Managing director Paul...
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Thunderous ambitions at Chelmsford Chieftains
CHELMSFORD Chieftains' player/coach Gary Clarke is confident but wary ahead of this Sunday's league game against Milton Keynes Thunder.The Riverside Leisure Centre-based side could be without key...
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Hutton beauty queen, 19, aims to become Face of Europe
AN ASPIRING medic is preparing to set pulses racing at a beauty pageant to find Europe's top model.Fresh from being named the Face of London in her first ever pageant, Arathi Menon, from Hutton, will...
View ArticleBrentwood: Thieves steal plaque from war memorial
THIEVES have stolen a plaque from the war memorial in Brentwood just days before Remembrance Sunday.The plaque, bearing the names of some of those who died during the Second World War, was torn from...
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Brentwood Town manager slams ref over 'mistakes' in Lewes match
BRENTWOOD Town manager Steve Witherspoon has hit out a match officials who feels clearly robbed his side of a home win in their FA Trophy First Round tie against Lewes on Saturday.Despite taking the...
View ArticleEssex Police Commissioner Elections - Live
Essex residents get the chance to meet and question the six candidates vying to be the first ever Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex tonight. The Essex Chronicle election hustings will kick off at...
View ArticleToadstools and slime moulds at woodland's Fungus Foray
TOADSTOOLS, earth balls, brackets, slime moulds and stinkhorn are among the fungi you can now see at a nature reserve in Billericay.The organisms can be observed at Norsey Wood's annual Fungus Foray...
View ArticleTown firefighter crews set to be halved
THE number of full-time fire crews in Brentwood will be halved – despite the end of a four-year industrial dispute between firefighters and managers at Essex Fire and Rescue.Fire crews had been at...
View ArticleMobile phone store targeted by thieves three weeks in a row
THIEVES have been targeting Carphone Warehouse in Brentwood, making off with hundreds of pounds worth of mobile phones and tablet computers.The raiders are believed to park their car around the corner...
View ArticleChoice of agents
BRENTWOOD Borough Council has defended its choice of agents acting to negotiate the best terms with Stockland – even though there is a pecuniary interest between the two.Brentwood Borough Council says...
View ArticleBright-bodied arachnid gives mum a real fright
CAN you believe a brightly coloured octoped such as this is completely harmless?Just one week before Hallowe'en, this hairy spider certainly put the willies up mother-of-five Tina Dorling when she made...
View ArticleExpo's right place to come if you're meaning business
THE organiser of a new enterprise exhibition, the first of its kind in Brentwood, says she is aiming to inject some fun into business.Rather than the stiff and stuffy trade shows of the past, Kathryn...
View Article3 years for loan shark who used blackmail
A LOAN shark has been sentenced to three years in prison for blackmail, plus 15 months for illegal money-lending, in Havering.Stephen Basstoe, 41, of Eastern Road in Romford, was convicted on Monday...
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Epping Forest Council praised for not charging taxpayer over private health...
PRIVATE medical insurance funded by the taxpayer is not offered to staff at Epping Forest District Council – in stark contrast to the position at Essex County Council.The Gazette has learned that...
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£4.50 Rembrandt masterpiece is still in family, and not for sale!
THE proud son of a Brentwood man who snaffled what is believed to be a Rembrandt masterpiece for less than £4.50 in 1962 has confirmed it remains in the family.Portrait Of An Old Man was acquired by...
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Paralysed footballer Nicky Morgan "gutted" police have shut case
A YOUNG footballer whose career was destroyed following an altercation in Brentwood last year says he has "lost faith in the justice system" after police closed the case.Nicky Morgan, 26, says he is...
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