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Great Braxted: Hunt for missing woman
Police are stepping up the search for a missing woman from Great Braxted. Sheila Tarlton, 61, known by her middle name of Anne, is diabetic and police and volunteers, including family members, are today carrying out a search around the village. She was
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Chelmsford: Woman, 82, rescued from blaze
An elderly woman was rushed to hospital after fire gutted her first-floor flat. The blaze swept through the home of 82-year-old Lily Tabrett in Meadgate Avenue, Chelmsford, just before 8.15am on Thursday. Firefighters found Mrs Tabrett inside the blazing
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Christmas: Did you know?
This Is Essex News Uploads National news and sport will be updated at regular intervals across the Christmas and New Year period. From December 25 onwards, Local news and Local sport will be updated once per day on December 28, 29, 30, January 1 and 3
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If you're lighting the fuse, stay off the booze...
If you're lighting the fuse, stay off the booze. That's the message being sent out by a leading fireworks company who have launched their own campaign against mixing drink and fireworks. Bob Claydon, of Dynamic Fireworks, said: "There is a lot of concern
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Soccer: Ref headache hits league
A shortage of men in black is causing headaches for the organisers of the Colchester Sunday League. They are suffering from a lack of referees, which is leading to the cancellation of some Sunday morning games. And they are appealing for anyone who wants
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Soccer: Frozen pitch scuppers U's
Colchester United's hopes of staging the last Nationwide League match of the millennium were ruined when the match was postponed because of a frozen pitch. Match referee Keith Hill made the decision to postpone the clash with Wycombe Wanderers at around
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Copford: Blaze destroys family home
A family have been sorting through the wreckage of their home after a fire in the early hours of Thursday morning. The blaze destroyed the kitchen in an extension on the detached house and badly damaged the other rooms with thick smoke. Wendy Harris,
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Stebbing: Explosion leaves family homeless
A family has been left homeless following an explosion and a fire at their home. Homeowner Sarah Crow and teenage daughter Samantha were away visiting relatives when the boiler exploded in a bedroom of the house in Warehouse Villas , Stebbing, on Christmas
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Marks Tey: Barn destroyed in garden centre blaze
A barn and greenhouse were destroyed in a blaze at a garden centre. Four fire engines were called to Poplar Nurseries, Coggeshall Road, Marks Tey, at 1pm on Tuesday. Station officer Lee Neale, of Colchester brigade, said: "At one point we thought there
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Colchester: Police hunt for armed robber
A suspected armed robber is being hunted after a car chase through Colchester on Thursday. Shoppers looked on as the Essex Police helicopter, dog units and foot patrols combed Castle Park and the surrounding area. The major manhunt began after robbers
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Cross country: Sara runs to more success
Brentwood Ursuline School pupil Sara Luck is celebrating after being crowned the National Cross Country champion, for her age group, for the second successive year. Sara, 12, from Brentwood, was competing in the schools junior event at the National Finals
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Cricket: Felsted pupils get lesson from legend
A fast-bowling legend surprised young cricketers on a winter tour of Australia. Pupils from Felsted School, near Braintree, were playing cricket in Perth, Western Australia, against local side Scotch College. A morning jogger stopped to watch the match
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Golf round-up: Trophy time for Paul
Paul Barham, from Billericay's Crondon Park Club, is the 1999 winner of the Eddie Whitecombe Trophy for topping the Essex Professional Golfers' Association order of merit. Following 12 qualifying tournaments held throughout the year, Barham had 32.07
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Flop of the Millennium?
After 2,000 years of hype, why are most of us likely to spend the night in front of the TV? With only days left to this millennium the predicted fever is failing to materialise. Prices are being slashed, events cancelled, and the general consensus seems
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Westcliff: Church organ man's gift from TV's Noel
A man rebuilding a Westcliff church organ walked in to find Noel Edmonds sitting at the keyboard. Shocked David Miller's next surprise at Trinity Methodist Church, Westcliff, was the Christmas gift the TV presenter was offering. This was the chance to
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Soccer: Kept on the ball by pain and passion
This Is Essex News Uploads National news and sport will be updated at regular intervals across the Christmas and New Year period. From December 25 onwards, Local news and Local sport will be updated once per day on December 28, 29, 30, January 1 and 3
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Colchester: Flu victim hears burglars raid house
A Colchester man heard burglars raiding his home on Christmas Eve as he lay in bed with flu. The intruders broke into the house on Bromley Road, Greenstead, shortly before 10pm, causing £100 damage. They searched downstairs and took jewellery before escaping
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Canvey: 'Mum ... I've got a flea in my ear!'
Young Wesley Glover got more than a flea in his ear after playing hide and seek. He picked up a millennium bug. Or at least, that's how Southend Hospital staff jokingly described the remains of the creature they extracted. The drama began when Wesley,
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Rugby: Presidents in power display
President's XV's blend of youth and experience gave them a decisive edge against an understrength 1st XV side packed with players on the fringe of the first team. The annual clash was full of free-flowing rugby and it wasn't long before the 1st XV opened
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Nun says rapist should 'rot in hell'
A nun repeatedly raped and left for dead after a Christmas party said she hoped her attacker rots in hell. And the 37-year-old Essex nun revealed the rapist returned to the alleyway where she was attacked. She has needed two emergency operations for internal
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Marks Tey: Barn destroyed in garden centre blaze
A barn and greenhouse were destroyed in a blaze at a garden centre. Four fire engines were called to Poplar Nurseries, Coggeshall Road, Marks Tey, at 1pm on Tuesday. Station officer Lee Neale, of Colchester brigade, said: "At one point we thought there
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No more room in South Essex intensive care units
South Essex is facing an emergency care crisis after it was revealed that all beds in the Southend and Basildon intensive care units are full. Southend Hospital's six beds, as well as six beds in the "step-down" high dependency unit, are all currently
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Colchester: Hospital struggles to meet demand
Severe bed shortages in Colchester are causing the worst winter crisis the town's hospital has ever had. All 705 beds at the Turner Road site are full and routine operations are being cancelled. Hospital bosses blame a shortage of GPs on duty over Christmas
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Southend: Armed police on guard at hospital
Armed police guarded exits at Southend Hospital while staff treated a criminal from Chelmsford Prison. Officers were on standby outside the observation ward on Wednesday morning and others waited in a vehicle near the main entrance. A police spokeswoman
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Soccer: Tiptree go goal crazy
Tiptree went goal crazy against poor Brightlingsea on Tuesday night but few would have believed the final outcome at half-time when the sides were locked at 1-1. The Jam-makers were somewhat out of sorts to start despite taking the lead through an Andy
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Soccer: Ex-Blues star's neck op a success
Doctors believe that a near four-hour operation carried out on former Southend United soccer star Dave Cusack has been a success. Cusack broke two bones in his neck in a car accident just over a week ago and the delicate surgery, where a graft was taken
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Fencing: Sullivan and Sims star for Chelmsford
Success came to Chelmsford & Anglia Polytechnic Fencing Club who scooped County Championships in both the Sabre and Foil events and a string of Silver Medals in the Epee events at the Essex County Fencing Championships at the weekend in Chelmsford
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Stansted: Boeing 747 black box recovered
Search teams have found the second flight data recorder from the jumbo jet which crashed at Stansted. Investigators recovered the black box from the main crater of the crash site. The Korean Boeing 747 came down near Great and Little Hallingbury last
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Walton: Husband slams disabled buggy theft
A Husband has hit out at cruel thieves who stole his wife's disabled buggy and dumped it in the sea. Harry Haddon, 59, of Station Street, Walton, said that the four-wheel vehicle was her only way of getting about. He said she had been devastated by the
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Chelmsford: Hospital turns away six ambulances
Hospictal chiefs had to turn away ambulances from its casualty department over Christmas because it was too busy. Six ambulances arrived at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, at the same time on Boxing Day and staff at the casualty department were struggling
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Colchester: Coman preys on elderly
Police are linking two incidents involving men calling at the homes of elderly people and asking for money for house repairs. The first happened at 4pm on Wednesday at Straight Road, Colchester, when a male aged between 30 and 40 asked the residents for
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Walton: Husband slams disabled buggy theft
A Husband has hit out at cruel thieves who stole his wife's disabled buggy and dumped it in the sea. Harry Haddon, 59, of Station Street, Walton, said that the four-wheel vehicle was her only way of getting about. He said she had been devastated by the
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Dovercourt: Roundabouts set to ease traffic flows
Up to £50,000 is to be spent on placing two mini-roundabouts on a busy Dovercourt road. Essex County Council has given the thumbs up for the work to begin within the next few weeks. The roundabouts will be placed at the top of Laurel Avenue and Ainger
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Rochford: Dad keeps his £3,000 promise
A doting dad has kept his promise - a year after offering his teenage daughter £3,000 to give up smoking. Richard Amner, of Oxford Road, Rochford, even drew up an astonishing contract pledging to pay hard-up dancing teacher Louise, then 18, the cash over
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Maldon: Hunt protesters make point as supporters cheer riders
Basildon MP Angela Smith joined nearly 1,000 people to watch one of the UK's biggest hunts of Monday, in Maldon. Campaigners for and against the sport gathered on either side of the high street to greet around 70 members of the Essex Farmers and Union
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Stebbing: Explosion leaves family homeless
A family has been left homeless following an explosion and a fire at their home. Homeowner Sarah Crow and teenage daughter Samantha were away visiting relatives when the boiler exploded in a bedroom of the house in Warehouse Villas , Stebbing, on Christmas
