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Colchester: Praise for fire crew and neighbours
A mother whose house was ruined by a blaze in the early hours has praised fire crews and her neighbours. A candle left unattended in a bedroom is thought to have caused the fire in Kathleen Godby's terraced home in Gurney Benham Close, Colchester, at
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THOUSANDS OF POUNDS GRABBED IN LAKESIDE ROBBERY
ROBBERS pushed a security guard to the ground and escaped with several thousand pounds in a robbery at Lakeside Shopping Centre. The 26-year-old uniformed Securicor guard was at the centre to fill an cashpoint and was jumped on in an open air car park
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Wickford: Travellers' con cost me £8,000
A widower told today how he felt stripped of his dignity after travellers conned him out of more than £8,000. The 76-year-old from Southend Road, Wickford, was tricked into believing his roof was riddled with woodworm and in danger of collapsing without
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Chelmsford: David aims for Monopoly success
A Chelmsford games enthusiast will be hoping to pass Go and collect £5,000 at the UK Monopoly championships tomorrow. David Gatheral is in with a chance of winning the prize money and a place round the board at the world championships in Tokyo. The 31
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Evening Gazette story news 4
Evening Gazette news story test. A TEN-YEAR-old boy who left home driving his father's car had a miraculous escape when he crashed on a dual carriageway today. The schoolboy was rescued by firefighters from Basildon and Leigh who used heavy cutting gear
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ANXIOUS NEW YEAR WAIT FOR TRAVELLERS
TRAVELLERS could have to wait until the New Year to find out if their fight to remain on their illegal encampments has been a success. The three-day hearing into a plea by travellers to live on green belt land at Five Acres Farm, Hovefield Drive, Wickford
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BLIND WOMAN HELD HOSTAGE IN POST OFFICE HORROR
A BLIND woman had a knife held at her throat during a horrifying robbery at a Basildon post office. Her two terrified daughters, aged three and five, began screaming when the masked raider burst into Martin's Newsagents in Clayhill Road and held the craft
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Cricket: Eagles fighting to stay up
Essex Eagles will be fighting for their Totesport League first division lives when they go into action against Glamorgan in their day-night clash at Chelmsford. A victory this evening will be good enough to prevent them being relegated and they must somehow
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Harwich: Work starts on new centre
Work has officially begun on a new £12.3 million health centre. Ivan Henderson MP and primary care health chief David Rex cut the first sod A ground-breaking ceremony was held on Friday to mark the start of the rebuilding of Harwich Hospital and Dovercourt
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Shoebury: Lethal weapons seized at bootsale
Police and trading standards swooped to seize an assortment of lethal knives, a crossbow and air guns at a boot sale. Undercover police officers posed as punters at the popular Shoebury Park fair off North Road in Shoebury. After spotting a 12-year-old
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Basildon: Police investigate burned-out motor
Police are investigating a blaze which destroyed a car at a farm just off the A127 near Basildon yesterday. Scorched - what was left of the car in St Mary's Lane, North Ockendon Picture: DAVE HENDERSON The blaze was at Puddledock Farm Fisheries in St
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St Osyth: Lifeguards praised after pool rescue
Lifeguards were praised today after they pulled an unconscious woman from a swimming pool and helped to save her life. The 48-year-old woman almost drowned after suffering a diabetic attack. The incident happened on Saturday afternoon at the Orchard's
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Evening Gazette story news 3
Evening Gazette news story test. A TEN-YEAR-old boy who left home driving his father's car had a miraculous escape when he crashed on a dual carriageway today. The schoolboy was rescued by firefighters from Basildon and Leigh who used heavy cutting gear
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Westcliff: Troubled school's new centre axed
A Westcliff school may lose its planned special needs centre because of a damning Ofsted report that forced it on special measures. Southend Council had originally chosen Prittlewell Technology College to be one of just four mainstream schools to provide
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Greenstead: Car thief's trail of destruction
An out-of-control stolen car tore the back off a parked car before careering across three gardens and ripping a gas supply from a house. Damage - Brian McFarlane cleans up the debris caused by the crash at his Greenstead home The smash happened in Forest
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Soccer: Garcia thinks U's can go up
Richard Garcia has only seen Colchester United play twice, but already he confidently believes the U's can go on to win promotion. Classy debut - Richard Garcia in action against Swindon "That and the fact Colchester play good football is one of the reasons
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Southend: Crash youths 'lucky'
Six young people were today lucky to be alive after their car ploughed into a lamp post in Southend early today. Three men and three women, all between 17 and 20 years old, were rushed to hospital with broken limbs when their Vauxhall Cavalier hit the
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Cricket: Irani gloomy after Glamorgan loss
Ronnie Irani was left a disconsolate figure after Essex suffered a four-wicket defeat at the hands of Glamorgan at Chelmsford that effectively signalled the end of their Championship promotion hopes. Mathematically, they still have the remotest chance
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Braintree: Police appeal for crash witnesses
Police have appealed for witnesses to a road accident in which a cyclist died. The man, a 56-year-old from Braintree, was riding along Pod's Brook Road, on the outskirts of the town on a battery-assisted pedal bike just before 11.30am on Thursday, when
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Southend: Gunman robs betting shop
A gun was pointed in the face of a betting shop manager during a terrifying daylight raid. The raider burst into the Coral's betting shop on Woodgrange Drive, Southend at 6.05pm on Saturday. The robber leapt over the counter and pointed the black handgun
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Maldon: Asbo teenager gets locked up
A teenager who was given Maldon police's first anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) has been sent to a detention centre for four months after repeatedly breaching its conditions. Glenn Freeman, 14, of North Street, Maldon, appeared at Witham Youth Court
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Bradwell: Housework 'key to losing weight'
A slimmer who shed more than a stone in weight has revealed the secret of her trim new figure washing her kitchen floor. Slimmer - Yvonne Thorne puts her success at losing weight down to housework Yvonne Thorne, of Coggeshall Road, Bradwell, has won a
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Basildon: We'll take waste
All of south Essex's rubbish could end up in Basildon, Essex County Council has admitted. The council wants to divide Essex into three areas for waste disposal, but Courtauld Road, Basildon, is the only area in the Thames Gateway section - which includes
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Soccer: Gulls say goodbye to favourite Parms
Canvey Island's entry to the Conference has coincided with the departure of one of the club's best-loved characters. Steve Parmenter has been released after six years at Park Lane and is joining another former Gulls favourite, Scott Forbes, in Bishop's
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Southend: Personality under microscope
Everyone likes to think they have a unique personality but even the most extrovert of characters like David Coates can be pigeonholed. Featured on a BBC documentary last night, the recruitment director from Southend was categorised as a big thinker -
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Walton: An ancient find to get your teeth into
Fossil seeker Shane Gowlett has dug up a real treasure. Jaws' ancestor - Shane Gowlett with his 25 million-year-old tooth Mr Gowlett, 22, has unearthed a 25 million-year-old giant shark's tooth while scouring the beach at Walton's Naze - a well-known
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GIRL, FOUR, SLICING >
A YOUNG girl underwent plastic surgery after she cut the tips of two of her fingers off playing with her dad's circular saw. The four-year-old is believed to have been watching her dad at work with the saw and, while his back was turned, picked it up.
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Southend: Travellers - Here we go again!
More than 25 police officers today moved in to evict travellers from derelict land near Southend Airport. The group had been told to get off the site at Warners Bridge in Manners Way, Southend, by 10pm last night but had not moved when police checked
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Braintree, Dunmow: Crash victim dies
A Braintree man has died from head injuries he suffered in a road accident on the A120 in Dunmow. Colin Barker, 49, a draughtsman from Derwent Way, Braintree, died at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, on Friday. He was involved in a crash on the eastbound
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Colchester: Three major house fires
Fire crews fought three major house blazes - including one in Gurney Benham Close, Colchester - over the weekend. Luckily, no-one was seriously harmed in any of the fires. Fire ripped through the kitchen of a bungalow in Godmans Lane, Marks Tey, in the
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Essex: Motorists 'still drink and drive'
An Essex Police month-long drink-driving campaign has shown some motorists are still needlessly putting lives on the line. The roadside test hit-rate showed that 138 of 3,334 drivers were under the influence of alcohol while behind the wheel. This is
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Basildon: Knife terror of blind woman
A blind woman had a knife held at her throat during a horrific robbery of a Basildon post office counter. The masked raider burst into Martin's Newsagents in Clayhill Road and held the Stanley-type craft knife at the woman's neck. The robber then shouted
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Maldon: Groups bang the drum for lottery windfall
Community groups in Maldon have won the lottery - scooping thousands of pounds in grants. The Awards for All Scheme, a lottery programme, supports projects which back community activities. Dengie Hopes and Dreams drama group, Maldon and District University
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Tendring: Hi-tech health centre details
A primary care trust has unveiled details of its new bid for a hi-tech health centre with transport links and satellite surgeries. A recommendation to re-apply for planning permission to develop a new primary care centre in Kennedy Way, Great Clacton,
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South Ockendon: Girl, four, slices finger tips on dad's saw
A young girl underwent plastic surgery after she cut the tips of two of her fingers off playing with her dad's circular saw. The four-year-old is believed to have been watching her dad at work with the saw and, while his back was turned, picked it up.
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Evening Gazette news story test. A TEN-YEAR-old boy who left home driving his father's car had a miraculous escape when he crashed on a dual carriageway today. The schoolboy was rescued by firefighters from Basildon and Leigh who used heavy cutting gear
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Soccer: Colchester United 0-1 Swindon Town (Coca Cola League One)
Swindon Town are proving to be a major bogey side for Colchester United. Up for it - the U's Stephen Hunt wins the ball in the air against Swindon Town They doubled the U's last season and inflicted their first home defeat this term. And just for good
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Wickford: Anxious new year wait for travellers
Travellers could have to wait until the New Year to find out if their fight to remain on their illegal encampments has been a success. The three-day hearing into a plea by travellers to live on green belt land at Five Acres Farm, Hovefield Drive, Wickford
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Witham: Thief snatches handbag from kitchen
An opprotunist thief took advantage of the hot weekend weather to steal a handbag from inside a Witham house. The thief entered the house in Highfields Road through an unlocked side door between 3.30pm and 5pm on Saturday. The black leather bag containing
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Thurrock: Thousands of pounds grabbed in Lakeside robbery
Robbers pushed a security guard to the ground and escaped with several thousand pounds in a robbery at Lakeside Shopping Centre. The 26-year-old uniformed Securicor guard was at the centre to fill an cashpoint and was jumped on in an open air car park
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Colchester: Sinister find in family's lawn
Mowing the lawn took on a sinister air when a Colchester man unearthed a human skull. The skull found in a Colchester lawn Lee Harkness, of Derwent Road, High Woods, Colchester, was cutting the grass when the mower hit something and stopped working. After
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Maldon: Noise could land you in jail
Noisy neighbours could find themselves slapped with a new-style anti-social behaviour punishment or even sent to prison. Maldon District Council would be able to dish out fines and offenders could be jailed for non-compliance if councillors decide to
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Southend: Man burns in back garden explosion
A man caused an explosion in his back garden after throwing petrol onto his bonfire which burned skin off his face and arms. Neighbours heard the loud bang and saw a fireball leap 15 ft into the air when the man tried to encourage the flames on his bonfire
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MAN BURNS IN BACK GARDEN EXPLOSION
A MAN caused an explosion in his back garden after throwing petrol onto his bonfire which burned skin off his face and arms. Neighbours heard the loud bang and saw a fireball leap 15 ft into the air when the man tried to encourage the flames on his bonfire
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Evening Gazette story news
Evening Gazette news story test. A TEN-YEAR-old boy who left home driving his father's car had a miraculous escape when he crashed on a dual carriageway today. The schoolboy was rescued by firefighters from Basildon and Leigh who used heavy cutting gear
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Cricket: Habib quits county to further his career
Aftab Habib is quitting Essex at the end of the season with a view to joining another county. And the club's annual hire and fire meeting has also spelled the end of the road as Essex players for bowlers Adrian McCoubrey and Zoheb Sharif. But former England
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Boxing: Meager in the hunt for Danny's English crown
Lee Meager has stepped up his verbal war on Leigh boxer Danny Hunt ahead of their English lightweight championship fight. English title holder Hunt is due to face the Salford-born fighter in London next month and is already talking up his chances of taking
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Witham: Man exposed himself to girls
Police are searching for a man who exposed himself to two young girls in Witham. Two local girls, aged six and seven, were walking along an alley between Virgil Road and the park at 11.30am yesterday. They were followed along the alley by a man who was
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LETHAL WEAPONS SEIZED AT BOOTSALE
POLICE and trading standards swooped to seize an assortment of lethal knives, a crossbow and air guns at a boot sale. Undercover police officers posed as punters at the popular Shoebury Park fair off North Road in Shoebury. After spotting a 12-year-old
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Maldon: Action wanted on speeding traffic
AGHAST, the Action Group for Householders Against Speeding and Traffic, has issued a call for changes to be made to Fambridge Road. The Maldon group has written to Julie Martyn, Essex County Council's area highway manager, targeting five issues for immediate
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GIRL, FOUR, SLICES FINGER TIPS ON DAD'S SAW
A YOUNG girl underwent plastic surgery after she cut the tips of two of her fingers off playing with her dad's circular saw. The four-year-old is believed to have been watching her dad at work with the saw and, while his back was turned, picked it up.
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Colchester: Festival focus on Jumbo
One of Colchester's most famous landmarks became a screen promoting the town's festival. Laser show - Jumbo became a screen promoting Colchester's festiva Lasers were used to project images of the town, information about the festival and logos onto the
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