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Golf: Boyce sees the rise of Mel Perrin
Melanie Perrin won the scratch prize with 30 points at Boyce Hill Ladies Spring Meeting, a Stableford off full handicap. Jackie Soilleux won the Silver handicap event on countback from Jenny Darwin and Chris Noden with all three finishing on 34 points
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Castle Point: End pool rule, says swimming instructor
A swimming coach today criticised legislation which has seen a dramatic drop in the number of youngsters visiting pools in Castle Point. Kay Mullaly, 60, of Long Road, Canvey, holds swimming classes at Furtherwick Park School on Canvey every week and
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Thundersley: Breakneck pace to building Virgin sports centre
A multi-million pound sports complex continues to grow at a startling rate. Builders are grafting at a rapid pace on the long-awaited Virgin Active centre which is taking shape in Rayleigh Road, Thundersley. Looming large - the £6million Virgin Active
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South Essex: Social life? I'd rather have the money
Young people in South Essex are four times more likely to want a healthy savings account than a social life, according to a new survey. The survey by Britannia building society looked at attitudes towards spending and saving. It found that 18 to 30-year-olds
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Witham: New loo at Newlands
Witham's new £145,000 public lavatory in the Newlands Drive car park is due to open today - with a bit of luck. It all depends if Braintree District Council can find a cleaner in time. The woman who cleaned the old lavs, now demolished, had agreed to
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Basildon: Council's delight over success of its website
Hi-tech Basildon Council will have such advanced technology over the next year that few people will need to go into its headquarters. Now residents can use the Basildon Council website to look at council job vacancies, report abandoned vehicles, potholes
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Westcliff: Church flats get approval
A former church hall in Westcliff can be converted into 12 flats each with a parking space, Southend Council's development control committee has said. The proposals for the vestry and hall at Crowstone St George's United Reformed Church in King's Road
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Maldon: Council rescues travel scheme
Maldon Town Council has come to the rescue of local disabled people after a travel scheme looked set to collapse in the town. The Essex Disabled Peoples' Association thought it might have to cut services providing disabled people with transport in Maldon
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Tendring: Gremlin glitch in CCTV camera
New closed-circuit television cameras being introduced across Tendring in the fight against crime are being blighted by technical problems, the Evening Gazette can reveal There are operational difficulties with the equipment in Great Clacton, Frinton
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Westcliff: I've blown Lottery millions
Lottery jackpot winner Doug Wood is giving up his lavish lifestyle after whittling down his £2.6million fortune to just £80,000. Doug, who lives in Westcliff, is to axe his two personal chauffeurs and give up his horse racing hobby and is also selling
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Basildon: Patches spell cash
The final touches have been made to a colourful patchwork quilt that will be raffled off to raise money for the Essex Air Ambulance. For the past five months women from Basildon's Thursday Craft Group, including Joyce Corr, have been working away to make
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Witham: Estate clear out for rubbish amnesty
Templars estate residents have cleared out more than 18 tons of rubbish in Witham's first-ever rubbish amnesty. Since May 17, residents from the 440-home estate off Cressing Road have been bringing out their unwanted items, and council collectors have
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Cycling: Patience pays off for Wheelers
Southend Wheelers had good reason to celebrate during a month in which the club reached its 80th birthday. Ladies' 2002 champion Jenny Patience started the celebrations off in style. Riding in the Ladies' National ten-mile Time Trial Championships at
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Motorsport: Bilkey hits skids in rods race
Sixteen-year-old Vic Bilkey is making a name for himself in the world of hot rods. In the Lightning Rods British Championship qualifiers at Arena Essex's Purfleet raceway, Bilkey won two races to earn pole position for the final. And he led the chase
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Braintree: Children's petition over school field
Children forced out of a school field where they have played for years are organising petitions to try to win a change of heart. A sports field at Notley High School, Braintree, has been surrounded by fencing - preventing youngsters and residents from
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Martial Arts: Elmes' stage Euro shows
One of south Essex's leading martial arts families will demonstrate their skills to 30,000 people at a youth festival in Germany this weekend. The Elmes clan of Emma, David and Jay -- of the Silver Dragon martial arts display team -- were also recently
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South Woodham Ferrers: Repay father's money
A man has been told to pay back more than £11,000 he stole from his father. Timothy Saunders, 21, of Meadow Avenue, South Woodham Ferrers, took the money from his father's bank account over a month. A court heard how the theft came to light when his father's
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Golf: County finish as runner-up
Nine counties qualified for the annual Eastern Counties Foursomes and, after two days of competition, Essex finished second behind hosts Lincolnshire. There was a particularly outstanding performance by the pairing of Orsett's Steve McAnally and Andrew
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Southend: Entrance shut in the week
What's going on down at Southend Pier? That's the question being asked by confused visitors to the landmark this week who found the new entrance closed days after it was officially "opened" during the airshow weekend. However, council foreshore officers
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Tendring: Village bus service future assured
A service that provides bus links to rural villages will be on the road for at least another three years, it has been revealed. Village Link provides connections from Harwich to Clacton, stopping at several villages along the way. It is run by Essex County
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Wickford: Peter's big birthday cash cycle
Most people have a party to celebrate their 50th birthday - but not Peter Jackson. He is cycling a gruelling 921 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats, to mark his half century and raise cash for the Essex Air Ambulance. Hitting the road - cyclist Peter
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Marks Tey: TV cameras roll at town boot sale
A boot sale near Colchester was besieged by a television crew which decided to film a show there. Action - an Anglia TV film crew get to work at Marks Tey boot sale Picture: STEVE BAINBRIDGE Anglia Television is making a new series of ITV's Boot Sale
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South Woodham Ferrers: Ultrasound waiting lists to be slashed
Waiting times for ultrasound examinations are set to be slashed following a "groundbreaking" pilot scheme in South Woodham Ferrers. The Maldon and South Chelmsford Primary Care Trust has signed a contract with Mid Essex Hospitals Trust to provide an ultrasound
