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Soccer: Colchester's new dynamic duo
New Colchester United striker Jamie Moralee is relishing the prospect of forming a fearsome strike partnership with Lomana Tresor Lua Lua. Moralee opened his account for the club during the U's 4-2 win over non-league AFC Sudbury but was overshadowed
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Womens soccer: City book a final place
Chelmsford City Ladies Football Club started their pre-season warm-up by competing in the annual Rochford Sports Council six-a-side tournament last Sunday. Group victories over Southend 4-0, Old Southendians 2-1 and White Notley 3-0 set up a semi-final
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Pals return to the Palladium...
Clare McPherson and Gemma Donnelly are two Canvey 17-year-olds with their sights set on stardom. The pair - friends for the past nine years - are set to perform a duet at the London Palladium. Sunday Night at the Palladium is being revived as a variety
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Chelmsford councillors told to smarten up
The word is going out to Chelmsford borough councillors to smarten themselves up. Councillors turning up at meetings without jackets and ties, in tracksuit bottoms or even beachwear were targeted by former Mayor Christopher Kingsley at a meeting of the
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Athletics: Chelmsford's hopes boosted
Last Saturday saw Chelmsford Athletics Club men's team at Woodford Green for a Southern Men's League Division Two match, and it was a fixture that the club needed to do well in to help avoid relegation. They finished in third place out of five clubs and
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Ice Hockey: Chieftains clinch a star signing
Chelmsford Chieftains have signed Carl Greenhous for the forthcoming season. Canadian Greenhous was born in Ottowa and now lives in Ontario. It is his second stint with Chieftains, having spent the early part of the 1995/96 season with the club before
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Soccer: No old pals act from Newman
Veteran Southend United defender Rob Newman was relishing the thought of doing battle against his former Norwich City team mates in a pre-season friendly at Roots Hall. The 35-year-old, who joined Blues on a free transfer from Carrow Road last year, has
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Soccer: New dawn for Southend Utd Ladies
Southend United may be preparing for another season in the Football League basement, but their female counterparts are gearing up for their first ever crack at top flight soccer. The Shrimpers' ladies team are looking forward to rubbing shoulders with
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Jaywick: Couple wed after first date in June
Just a perfect day! That's the only way Bob Cooper, 38, and his new wife Karen, 35, of Jaywick, could describe their whirlwind wedding. The lovestruck couple only went out on their first date in June and Mr Cooper proposed to Karen the same evening. Mr
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Great Tey: Nice to see you!
A long-lost relative has told of her happiness at meeting her brothers and sister for the first time since she was a baby. But the amazing reunion, in a north Essex village, was also tinged with sadness because the elderly relatives may never be able
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Wickford: Missing Suzanne safe and sound
A teenager who went missing on her 15th birthday has been reunited with her distraught mum. Suzanne Dighton didn't arrive at a pal's house on Saturday night after leaving home in Mount Road, Wickford. He mum Judy said she was worried sick by her daughter's
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Southend: Oldies wheeled out for charity
Antique cycles made sure campaigning for this year's annual Bikeathon around Southend got off on the right wheel. A penny farthing and bone-shakers were wheeled out for the launch, at Waitrose supermarket in Eastern Avenue, Southend. The Bikeathon will
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Bowls: Prittlewell pair serve up treat
Civil Servants Ken Adams and Mike Bowyer enjoyed a great day at the office to clinch pairs glory at the Midland Bank-sponsored Southend Men's Open Bowls Tournament. The Prittlewell duo, playing on their home Priory Park green, took on the Basildon partnership
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Soccer: Eire we go says Southend striker Fitz
Young Southend United striker Trevor Fitzpatrick is expected to spearhead the Republic of Ireland's challenge for the under-18 European Championships in Sweden tonight. Ireland kick-off their opening group match of the tournament's finals against Spain
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Motorsport: Matt hopes for F3 victory
Billericay race ace Matt Davies is adamant that Sunday's British Formula Three Championship round at Snetterton could see him breakthrough to win. Davies, 22, has had made an impressive debut in the series and currently lies second in the rookie tables
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Soccer: High-flying Blues clip Canaries' wings
It was a night of firsts at Roots Hall on Friday as Southend United continued their build up to the new season with an impressive friendly win over First Division Norwich City. Scott Houghton netted his first Roots Hall goal, Mark Beard got on the scoresheet
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Cricket: Essex Eagles nose-dive
The Essex Eagles were dumped at the bottom of the National League First Division table as they crashed to a humiliating 139-runs defeat against Hampshire Hawks. In their most pathetic performance of the season, Nasser Hussain and his men were shot out
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Tennis: Essex in the elite
Essex take part in the National Inter County Tennis Championships this week with the men's team taking their place among the elite for the first time in five years. Stuck in group three just two years ago, the team has been revitalised under John Marnoch's
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Soccer: Calder pleased with Billericay
Billericay started life under new boss Gary Calder with a commendable opening friendly result against Nationwide League Division Three outfit Barnet. A goalless affair against a side who used most of their League players during the proceedings was no
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Cricket round-up: Billericay back on form in draw
Billericay 247-9 Saffron Walden 212-9 (Match drawn) After a couple of weeks in the doldrums, Billericay returned to form with a vengeance and picked up the lion's share of the Shepherd Neame League Premier Division points at leaders Saffron Walden. The
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Woodham: School steps up security
School security has been stepped up at Trinity St Mary's Primary in a bid to beat vandalism. Closed circuit television cameras have this week been installed at the school in South Woodham Ferrers town centre. Head teacher Keith Bannister said: "We have
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Stansted-Braintree rail link plan
The idea of a single track Stansted to Braintree railway link was put forward at the Examination in Public on transport issues of the Essex County Structure Plan. The inquiry heard recently that a group of lawyers, draughtsmen, architects, planners and
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Rayleigh: Helen's delight at MBE
Television presenter Helen Rollason has told of her defiant battle to collect her MBE after being given days to live by cancer experts. The 43-year-old BBC sports journalist received the honour from the Queen at Buckingham Palace last Wednesday in a wheelchair
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Colchester: Relief road plan back on
The long-awaited relief road for traffic-clogged western Colchester is back on the cards. But the plans may have a sting in the tail in the shape of 650 new homes. O and H Holdings, owner of the former 150-acre Stanway Pit, is expected to submit an application
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Child trapped at Clacton station
Police warned youngsters not to play in luggage lockers at Clacton railway station after a 12-year-old child became trapped. Two fire crews and police freed the youngster without injury at 4pm on Thursday. PC Phil Harrod of British Transport Police said
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Chelmsford: Tesco's 24-hour trade row
A bid by supermarket giant Tesco to open its Wood Street, Chelmsford, store round the clock is being opposed by many of its neighbours. People living in surrounding streets claim to have been betrayed by the company. They argue that when it opened the
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Chelmsford: Judge is bronzed and fit
Judge Tindal is looking bronzed and fit after a £9,000 clean-up. His Portland stone plinth has also been renovated and pieces of it repaired during the 12-week restoration. Now the judge, who overlooks Shire Hall, glistens in the summer sun -- when there
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Soccer: Heybridge to host Hammers
West Ham United will make a surprise visit to Scraley Road on Wednesday night for a hastily-arranged Intertoto Cup warm-up match with Heybridge Swifts. Disgusted with his team's display during their 1-0 win over Finnish minnows Jokerit in their first
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Soccer: Gulls' Black Friday
With the host side fielding a number of players with Roots Hall connections, it was former Southend United men Matt Lockwood and Martin Ling who taught Canvey Island a new meaning to the phrase Black Friday. Gulls entertained a Leyton Orient line-up and
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Yachting: A brotherly affair for the Marshalls
It is a case of all for one and one for all as far as Maldon Yacht Club brothers Iain, Richard and Philip Marshall are concerned. All three are scheduled to compete at world championship level later this summer, but for Philip, 18, the youngest of the
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Karate: Six of the best in Sweden
A team of six under-18-year-olds from the Braintree Shotokan Karate Club, led by Sensei Dean Simpson, jetted off to Sweden recently to take part in the World Youth Karate Championships. The three day event proved to be successful for the team as they
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Golf round-up: Wilson a winner in the Junior Championship...
The Junior Section of Channels Golf Club played in their 36 hole Junior Championship last Saturday. The Junior Captain, Ross Wilson, led the field with gross scores of 69 and 72, one under for the day. Lee Shrimpton was second with gross scores of 74
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Basketball: Allens late winner gave Southend victory
The Essex Youth Games Basketball Tournament was held recently, with 350 young players from all over Essex descending upon the Riverside Ice & Leisure Centre in Chelmsford. There were four competitions, Under 13 Boys and Under 13 Girls on Saturday
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Save Essex from developers plea
Baroness Beryl Platt of Writtle has made an emotional plea for Essex villages and the countryside to be saved from developers. Her plea comes at a time when pressures are building to change Green Belt boundaries -- many unaltered since 1957 -- through
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Maldon: Prom Park in CCTV scheme
Maldon's town centre car parks and the Promenade Park could be covered by cameras in an attempt to stamp out vandalism and theft. The district council is working with police to prepare a bid for Government cash to fund the closed circuit television (CCTV
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Fingringhoe: Top teacher quits as school's head
The headmaster of a small village school has resigned after concerns arose over the quality of teaching there. Education bosses insisted John Leyland's departure from Fingringhoe C of E Aided Primary School was not down to misconduct but said the move
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Essex Police to keep CS gas, despite fears
More than 2,900 police officers in Essex will continue to use CS gas spray for self defence, despite the concerns of the Police Complaints Authority. Essex Police Chief Constable, David Stevens, said this week the spray was a "worthwhile addition" to
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New threat to Essex care homes
Old people's homes run by Essex County Council are again under the threat of privatisation. The council has called a meeting to discuss the future of 32 homes across the county on July 28. Social services committee spokesman Graham Redgewell said: "There
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Benfleet church close to collapse
Campaigners have stepped up a £100,000 fundraising drive to safeguard the future of a historic church which is literally floating on collected rainwater. St Mary the Virgin Church in Benfleet - one of the oldest in Essex - could deteriorate rapidly and
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Billericay: MP turns lollipop lady to lead parents' protest
MP Teresa Gorman turned lollipop lady during a second visit to two Basildon schools plagued with traffic trouble. Two months after first examining the problem - Davenants and Felmores - Mrs Gorman returned to find the situation unchanged. Staff at Felmores
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Southend: Deadly game of boy racers
Police abandoned an undercover operation aimed at cracking down on boy racers on Southend seafront because they feared somebody would be killed, it was revealed today. Uniformed traffic officers were drafted in to stop dangerous driving by dozens of drivers
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Inferno brings A13 to a halt
Traffic chaos hit south Essex today following a massive warehouse fire. Commuters were left frustrated as part of the busy A13 was closed to traffic. The choas was expected to continue for most of the day and police chiefs were unable to say when the
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Colchester man, 47, missing at sea
A full investigation is under way after a fisherman was washed overboard by a wave from a passing ship. He was still missing today. John Sibley, 47, of Spruce Avenue, Colchester, had gone out for the day with the skipper of a powerful angling boat when
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Soccer: Coburn moves to Cambridge
Chelmsford City players have successfully completed their first week of pre-season training, but one of last term's promising youngsters is set to join Cambridge City. Although taking part in the first training session at the ECC sports ground at Writtle
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Pitsea: Teenager raped on her way home
A 16-year-old from Pitsea who was grabbed in the street and brutally raped was today being comforted by her parents. The traumatised teenager, was attacked by a stranger as she walked home in the early hours of Saturday morning. The rapist pounced as
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Athletics: Kim's Polish challenge
Kim Wall, 16, from Heybridge, was chosen to represent Great Britain in the World Youth Games in Poland this weekend, where she was due to compete in the 200 metres and the medley relay. The previous weekend, Kim, who attends the Willam de Ferrers School
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Cricket: Bowyer the best
Broomfield cricketer Ian Bowyer smashed the club record books last Saturday, when he scored an amazing 195 runs in just over 43 overs. Bowyer, 23, achieved his feat for the club's second eleven in their T. Rippon Mid-Essex League Division Seven match
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Cricket: Abberton seeking a place in history
Abberton Cricket Club were attempting to make a little bit of history on Sunday in the last 16 of the National Village Cricket Championship. The club, who are the last representatives from Essex and Suffolk left in the contest, had never progressed further
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Soccer: Sixth-former Tanner set for Ipswich?
Colchester Sixth Form College student Robert Tanner is aiming for the top after training with Ipswich Town. Tanner, 19, completed a one-week trial with the First Division club on Friday and is waiting to see whether Blues boss George Burley invites him
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Tennis: California, here I come!
A leading Colchester tennis player is bound for the USA in a bid to further his dream of becoming Britain's next Tim Henman. Leon Jennings, of Miller Lane, Stanway, has worked as the resident tennis coach at the Five Lakes Golf and Country Club in Tolleshunt
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Earls Colne: Nine hurt in three-vehicle road smash
Nine people, including five children, were injured in a three vehicle road crash. Seven people were taken to hospital after a head-on collision between a red Mazda 626 car and a Ford Transit van towing a trailer on the A1124 at Stonebridge Hill, Earls
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Wickford: Julie's mission to Peru's persecuted
The terrorised Indian communities of the Peruvian highlands will be seen first-hand by a Wickford woman. Julie Porter flew to Equador at the weekend to begin a year-long tour of south and central America. The 23-year-old plans to visit projects run by
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Cricket: Double ton sinks Abberton hopes
Double-centurion Simon Davis blasted Abberton out of the National Village Cricket Championship. The Eversholt batsman hit an amazing 210 off just 120 balls as Abberton went down by a whopping 217 runs in Bedfordshire yesterday. Eversholt batted first
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Heat threat to Essex dogs
An animal charity today urged people not to leave their pets locked in sweltering cars. The warning comes after an RSPCA volunteer was forced to call police when she spotted a German Shepherd panting in the back of a parked car in Shoebury. When the owner
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Cricket round-up: Westcliff off the boil at leaders
Westcliff 153 Chelmsford 154-4 (Chelmsford won) Westcliff could hardly have picked a worst day than Saturday to give a very much below par performance. Going into this Shepherd Neame League Division One affair in third place, they were well beaten by
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Southend: Man cleared of rape charge
A Southend man punched the air in relief after a jury cleared him of raping a policeman's daughter at knifepoint. Michael Williams, 32, of St Vincent's Road, Southend had waited a full day for the jury at Southend Crown court to return its verdict. The
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Shoebury: 999 operator calms blaze woman
A disabled woman trapped in a burning house was kept calm thanks to the actions of a worker at the fire service control room. The distressed victim dialled 999 when food she was cooking in the kitchen of her home in Fraser Close, Shoebury, caught fire
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Stanford's literary claim to fame
Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born novelist and creator of Lord Jim, lived for some years in Stanford-le-Hope. ALEX MORROWSMITH delves into this surprising piece of literary history It is a truth largely unacknowledged in Essex that a man in possession of
