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Harwich, Clacton: Schools bid for £20,000 boost
Schools in Harwich and Clacton are through to the next round of a Government initiative to improve standards in education. The schools bidding to become Education Action Zones will now receive up to £20,000 to continue developing their plans which must
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Chelmsford: Vital war role for Michael
Michael Cottee has one of the most important roles during the current bombardment of Serbia. The Chelmsford man is aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, part of the UK task force. The 30-year-old former pupil of Moulsham High School works
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Braintree: School site homes plan
Braintree Council is being asked to allow housing on the site of Tabor High Middle School in Panfield Lane. An Essex County Council outline planning application, lodged this week, includes the provision of roads onto the site. A spokeswoman for County
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Billericay: Teresa says sorry
Billericay Tory MP Teresa Gorman has been forced to apologise to MPs after failing to declare her own company on the list of members' interests. The MP told the House of Commons the omission was an "oversight" after she was forced to apologise to colleagues
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Witham: Entrepreneurs sell up to spread God's word in Cyprus
The owners of a successful Witham satellite communications company with a £6 million annual turnover have sold up in order to devote their lives to God. Entrepreneurs John Rogers, 61, and his wife, Jean, 60, who sold their company, Multipoint, to Silvermines
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Trampolining: Daniel jumps to gold
Daniel Phillips, 10, a member of Brentwood based Recoil Trampoline Club, bounced his way to gold at a recent trampoline competition held at Harlow. It was only the second competition for Daniel who competed in the U11 Novice group. "We entered a very
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Golf: Thorpe Hall rally to win
Chelmsford Golf Club were hosts to Thorpe Hall in the second round of the Thornton Cup. The morning foursomes were biased towards Chelmsford well into the second nine but Thorpe Hall pulled back the deficits to finish the five morning matches three up
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Cycling: Ron's a winner
On a dry evening, near St Neots, Ron Keeble, 34 Nomads, clocked 28.36 to win the Barnet Veterans "10" with Chelmer's Dave Nock, 21.02, his closest challenger. Other Chelmer times were G. Boden in 23.42, and A. Grant 24.15. The next morning Dave Nock clocked
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Cycling: Hutson flies flag for Wheelers at Boreham
Mick Hutson was the only Southend Wheeler in the ECCA 50-mile time trial on the E5 course based at Boreham. He made the top 12 with a new personal best of 1 hr 55 mins 21 secs - a seven-minute improvement on one of the fastest days of the year so far.
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A13 rapist: The visits to Southend with rape on his mind
Serial rapist Baker chose sites for his attacks that suggested he knew the area well: 1. The sickening rape of a 15-year old schoolgirl by Baker was so horrific it stunned even the most experienced of detectives. The teenager was pounced on as she walked
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A13 rapist: Girl's nightmare ordeal
Baker's youngest victim - a schoolgirl who has just turned 16 - knows exactly how she feels about her attacker. "I hate him. I want him put away for a very long time. In fact, I want someone to do to him what he has done to me." Sitting in the coffee
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A13 rapist: DJ's trail of terror
DJ Richard Baker - initially dubbed the A13 rapist - was convicted on Friday of three rapes and a string of other sex offences. The Old Bailey jury of nine women and three men delivered a unanimous verdict after eight hours and 20 minutes of deliberations
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Athletics: Tough victory delights Smith
Southend Athletic Club's senior men scored their second successive league win against tough track opposition in Portsmouth. The Garon's Park outfit won after scoring 127 points - four ahead of one time superclub Enfield and Haringay. Team coach Roger
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Soccer: Premiership stars go back to school
Soccer star Martin Allen has revealed that top names Joe Cole, Julian Dicks, Simon Royce and Justin Edinburgh are joining him for his Basildon coaching course. But he has assured people the big cheeses will not be getting an easy ride. Allen has lured
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Ice Hockey: Douglas takes head coach job at Chieftains
Chelmsford Chieftains have appointed Erskine Douglas as their head coach for next season. The club, impressed with Erskine's contribution after his appointment halfway through last season, and are confident that with his connections and knowledge he will
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Karate: Simon on a mission
Braintree's Simon Williams is a man with a mission - to compete in the World Karate Championships. Simon, 25, was close to becoming the new National Champion two weeks ago, when he failed by just 0.1 of a point and had to settle for runners-up position
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Cricket: Essex second string brush aside Kent
Essex Seconds enjoyed an eight wicket victory over Kent in the Second Eleven Championship match at Maidstone. Kent won the toss and batted first, Essex took two early wickets, but then had to work hard to dismiss the batsmen. David Thompson took a wicket
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Soccer: Post Office counters police threat
Basildon Post Office stamped their authority on the Southend Wednesday League Cup with a 2-1 final suuccess over Rayleigh Police in the final at Cupids Country Club. Matt Brooking's fourth-minute goal was a great start for the lawmen, but Russell Saggers
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A13 rapist: Airport arrest after tip off
Baker was arrested in the early hours of the morning about to board a plane to Spain at Heathrow Airport on December 16 last year. Operation Monarch officers confronted Baker as he got off the coach. They are believed to have been tipped off by a family
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A13 rapist: 'I hope he dies in prison'
Sex monster Richard Baker's youngest victim has revealed how she hopes the DJ dies in prison for his sickening reign of terror. The plucky 15-year-old Leigh schoolgirl is still picking up the pieces of her shattered life knowing that the pervert who raped
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Colchester: Parents' US bid to help son Ben
Doctors gave Ben Earnshaw three months to live when he was diagnosed with the rare liver disease Alagille syndrome. He is now 16 months old and his parents are raising cash to fly to the United States to discover more about the disease. Ben has spent
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Laindon residents say home values have plummeted
Campaigning Laindon residents will take their fight for a lower council tax to a valuation tribunal this week. More than 30 Laindon Link residents are calling for their homes to be put in a lower tax band. If successful the result could open the floodgates
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Canvey seafront work hit by third burglary
A block paver who has tirelessly helped rebuild Canvey seafront was today counting his losses after £3,000 of tools were stolen. It is the third time in three months that Danny Bovill, 23, owner of Elmsleigh Paving at Charfleets industrial estate, has
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Cricket: Renaissance for ton-up Prichard
The most satisfying aspect of the recent Essex match at The Oval was the fine century by Paul Prichard. At one stage, it appeared that his 103 against Surrey would underpin a second Championship win of the season for Essex although ultimately that was
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Chelmsford: Dead man 'binged on drugs'
A 41-year-old Chelmsford man died from an overdose because he was hoarding prescribed drugs to binge on once a week, an inquest heard. Stephen Chapman was found dead by his wife at his home in Dorset Avenue in January. Mr Chapman, a former drug addict
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Honeymoon couple leap for their lives in cruise drama
A pair of newlyweds who leapt for their lives from a burning cruise liner were today flying back to their Leigh home. Glen and Carlotta Bird jumped from the Sun Vista and watched it sink off the west coast of Malaysia as they sat in a lifeboat waiting
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Soccer: Stars pitch in for charity
A celebrity team from Arsenal will take to the pitch on Canvey when a football fundraiser is held for voluntary groups. The special Arsenal team will face Canvey Island Football Club in the game on Sunday August 8. Players who could appear for the North
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Cricket: Nasser says 'this time it is serious'
This time it is serious - that is the message from Essex skipper Nasser Hussain as he and his England team-mates prepare for tomorrow's all-important World Cup cricket clash with South Africa at The Oval. Hussain knows victory over Sri Lanka and Kenya
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Wickford: Day of music
There is a day full of live music for the family coming up in Wickford. Wickford people are good folk. You could say they're all heart, and many of them owe their hearts, or at least the on-going health of them, to the London Chest Hospital. It was for
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Sporting plan for Maldon farm site
An old farm complex could be converted to create a major country and outdoor pursuits centre in the Maldon district. It is proposed to revamp the 70-acre site at Home Farm, Broad Street Green Road, Great Totham by restoring two old Essex barns, creating
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A13 rapist: Man who led the hunt for rapist
The hunt for the fiend dubbed as one of Britain's most prolific sex attackers fell onto the shoulders of Det Supt David Bright, Essex Police's longest serving senior investigating officer. Here, in his own words, he describes how this has been an inquiry
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A13 rapist: DJ jailed for rape in 1987
Good-looking DJ Richard Baker was jailed 11 years ago for raping a 19-year-old girl he and his brother lured into a sex trap. Baker was sentenced to six years imprisonment for the offence after pleading guilty at Exeter Crown Court in November 1987. His
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Basildon parents fined £25 for children's school absence
A Basildon couple with a 14-year old son and a 13-year old daughter were fined just £25 with £5 costs each for failing to ensure both attended Laindon's James Hornsby School. The boy had missed 50 out of 156 days' schooling and the daughter 101 of 156
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Southend: Charity begins at the Motor Show
Evening Echo Motor Show, Sunday May 30 and Monday May 31, at Southend Airport. Gates open at 9.30am. Admission £3 adults, £2 children. Attractions include classic and new cars on display and in cavalcade, airplanes at the airport specially for the airport's
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V99: James Brown makes return visit
The Godfather of Soul is on his way back to Essex. James Brown has today confirmed he will be appearing at the award-winning V festival in Chelmsford's Hylands Park for the second year running. The legendary soul star enjoyed himself so much at V98 he
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Showjumping: Big birthday success for Felsteds Rowena
Felsted rider Rowena Ockendon-Day celebrated her birthday by finishing second in the Young Show Jumper of the Year Awards. Her placing at the Royal Windsor Horse Show last weekend has earned herself a place in the final to be held at Olympia at Christmas
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Chelmsford crash driver did not stop
A Mercedes driver left the number plate of his car at the scene of an accident when he failed to stop after a collision with a motorcyclist. Trevor Hayes, 42, of Writtle Road, Chelmsford, admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop after
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Mersea pupil, 16, dies after multi-storey fall
A gifted and popular schoolgirl has died after falling from a multi-storey car park. Amy Burgess, 16, of Prince Albert Road, West Mersea, was a year 11 pupil at Philip Morant School in Colchester and was due to sit her GCSEs. She fell from the busy NCP
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Soccer: Clacton - cleanest team by a mile
A team from Clacton has been dubbed the cleanest in the country after going through the season without picking up a single booking. Clacton Town A, who finished third in the KeConnect Internet Division Three, went 18 league games and another half dozen
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Soccer: Ex-U's at Wembley
Colchester United will be well represented in next weekend's three Wembley promotion play-off finals. Former U's FA Trophy winning hero Scott Barrett - a double penalty saver against Rotherham in Wednesday's semi-finals - keeping goal for Leyton Orient
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Autograss: Super Jackson wins a thriller at Boreham
Essex-based Concord Autograss Club held their second meeting of the season at their Boreham track last Sunday. After three sets of qualifying heats, the Class 1 Minis got the finals underway. Steven Lodge, from Dunmow, continued his good form with another
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Golf: Visitors take the honours
Belfairs Ladies Guest Day saw visiting captains Maureen Rowson (Rochford) and Barbara Ridgewell (Thorpe Hall) win on 53 points in the aggregate competition. Jackie Dowding and Louise Bryan were runners-up on 51. Barbara Lee and Gloria Goldring took the
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Speedway: Witches see off Belle Vue
Ipswich Witches comfortably saw off the challenge of Belle Vue Aces in their Craven Shield fixture, winning 52-38. Polish superstar Tomasz Gollob was in a class of his own and looked like going through the card unbeaten, until he was taken well off the
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Mid Essex: 40-mile trek for patients
Cancer patients in mid Essex could face gruelling journeys to Ipswich for radiotherapy treatment if Colchester loses its status as a main cancer unit. Mid Essex now comes under the Eastern health region, rather than North Thames, and cancer services are
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Billericay director banned from running company
A Billericay boss has been banned from running a company for seven years after his firm ran up debts of nearly half a million pounds. The High Court heard that Ronald Theobald and his partner Kathleen Egglestone were directors of MEH(1996) Ltd until it
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Colchester: Bogus callers steal pensioner's life savings
Bogus electricity workers have stolen a pensioner's life savings. The fraudsters went to the 81-year-old woman's home in Harwich Road, Colchester, at 12.15pm yesterday. One of them said he was from the electricity board and asked her to pull out the plugs
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Soccer: Sagi poised to sign for U's
Crystal Palace defender Osagyefo Burton-Godwin was poised to sign for Colchester United today. U's boss Mick Wadsworth revealed the giant Birmingham born, 21-year-old centre back, more commonly known as Sagi Burton, is set to sign a two-year deal with
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Cricket: Narrow loss leaves Essex struggling
NATIONAL LEAGUE Essex are still searching for their first National League victory of the season after going down in another thriller at Chelmsford. This time it was Yorkshire who inflicted defeat when, replying to a total of 220-9, they claimed the spoils
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Soccer: Defence duo pair up for Gulls
Billericay Town's hugely successful defensive partnership of Gary Waters and Chris Moore will be back in tandem next season - with Ryman League Premier Division rivals Canvey Island. Hot on the heels of last week's news that Waters had signed a two-year
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Soccer: Blues' chairman vows changes
Changes will be made at Ipswich in the summer vowed Town chairman David Sheepshanks. The Blues supremo paid tribute to the players and fans after their gallant play-off failure for the third successive season. While Premiership vultures hover for the
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Burnham firm's Belgrade showroom hit by bombs
A Burnham company's showroom in Belgrade has been wrecked by NATO bombers. The premises, run by a Serbian local partner for Abbott International, was damaged in one raid and destroyed in another. Later, Abbott learned that the rented office and showroom
