Fair Havens Hospice staff in Westcliff are practising their curtseys in readiness for a royal visitor this week.

The Duchess of Norfolk, president of Help the Hospices, will be at the hospice in Chalkwell Avenue to perform the official reopening of the in-patient unit.

For four months earlier this year, the unit temporarily to Leigh into premises provided by a church association.

Published Monday October 28, 2002

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