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Stroke victim on mend as he hands trophy to Chelmsford rugby team
A TEENAGE rugby player who was left partially paralysed by a tackle walked back on to the pitch at the weekend to present his teammates with the super league crown.James Barker, 14, suffered a stroke...
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Braintree mum: 'I thought spider bite was going to kill me'
A MOTHER of three nearly died after suffering a spider bite while on holiday.Sue Isaac, 58, from Braintree, was on a six-week retirement break with a friend in Almeria, Spain, last July when she felt a...
View ArticleBraintree Town vs Nuneaton: Iron dealt Paine-ful blow
Braintree defender Matt Paine is suspended for the game against Nuneaton.Paine was sent off for violent conduct against Luton and will serve the second part of a three-match ban.Young on-loan defender...
View ArticleSugar Hut's Mick Norcross quits TOWIE
Sugar Hut boss Mick Norcross is quitting The Only Way Is Essex.The owner of the Brentwood nightspot said he is leaving the ITV2 reality TV show because he believes increasing number of rows being...
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Businesses sign up to the £50 Challenge for Farleigh Hospice
MORE than 50 Essex companies have signed up to Farleigh Hospice's Apprentice-style £50 challenge. The business leaders were all handed their crisp £50 notes last Thursday when they pledged to use the...
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Villagers in protest over plans for solar power park at Little Braxted
FURIOUS residents have accused the developers of one of the UK's biggest solar power parks of misleading them as to the true scale of the project.The vast development proposed at Little Braxted, on the...
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Tabor Academy launched with 1,500 balloons
FIFTEEN hundred balloons were released to celebrate a Braintree secondary school relaunching as an academy.Formerly the Tabor Science College, the Tabor Academy was formed after the school received a...
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Brentwood family go under barber's clippers after brother's shock diagnosis
TWO brothers and their father have gone under the barber's clippers to raise money for charity after a third brother was diagnosed with bowel cancer late last year.Dad Colin Craswell and his sons...
View ArticleMan in his twenties knifed to death in Parkside Quarter, Colchester
POLICE have launched a murder investigation after a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in a flat in Colchester today (March 9).They want to hear from anyone who was in the general area around 1.30am...
View ArticleMan wielding a kitchen knife robs Southend mobile phone shop
A MAN wielding a kitchen knife has robbed The Carphone Warehouse in Southend.Police are now appealing for witnesses to the armed robbery - which took place yesterday (Friday, March 8) at 4pm when the...
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Affordable Hair and Beauty training comes to Buckhurst Hill
THE finishing touches are currently being added to a brand new training academy in Buckhurst Hill. The academy is owned by Michelle Sapiano who already has a successful salon in Bow and many years...
View ArticleFour men arrested after man in his 20s shot in leg in Southend
A MAN in his mid 20s is in hospital with a non life-threatening shotgun wound to his leg.Four men aged 18, 18, 23 and 25 from London have been arrested by police officers in Southend following the...
View ArticleWeather hits football programme
Wet weather has put paid to much of the county's non-league football programme, leaving yet more fixture congestion on the horizon.In-form Blue Square Bet Premier side Braintree enjoyed their last free...
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CCTV images released of man who stole cash from Tilbury bookies
DETECTIVES in Thurrock have released CCTV images of a man who stole money from the till of a bookies in Tilbury last month. The man - who had a knife on him - went into the Coral Bookmakers in Broadway...
View ArticlePolice appeal for information on burglaries in Colchester and Tendring
POLICE are appealing for information on several burglaries in the Colchester and Tendring areas.The first incident happened on the night of March 3-4 when a family's Vauxhall Astra was stolen after...
View ArticleSearch parties hunt for missing man Anthony Mayer in the Dengie
POLICE in the Dengie are asking the public to look out for a 35 year old missing man from Burnham.Anthony Mayer from Station Road has been missing since last Thursday. His family is very concerned for...
View ArticleCarrier and container fire at Tilbury Docks
A FIRE ripped through a straddle carrier and a large container at Tilbury docks.Firefighters were altered to a fire in a straddle carrier in Tilbury at 8.35pm yesterday evening (Saturday, March...
View ArticleFire crews rescue two people trapped in vehicle on A13
TWO people became trapped in their car following an accident on the A13 Stifford Roundabout.The pair had to be rescued by firefighters following the road traffic collision - which involved just one...
View ArticleMan murdered in Grays after night out with friends
A MURDER investigation has been launched by police after a man who was brutally assaulted in a Grays car park later died from his head injury.The 35 year old man had been out with friends at the Euro...
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Tracker dog used by couple in bid to locate lost pet in Chelmsford
FIVE months after their springer spaniel disappeared, a desperate couple have put up posters, visited a psyhcic and even used the services of a trained tracker dog to find her.But the last thing the...
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