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  • Black jeans ban on boy at Witham school

    An eight-year-old boy has been told he cannot wear his smart black jeans to school - but it is all right to wear tracksuit trousers. Alex Rudd has been been banned from playing out with pals at Witham's Powers Hall Junior School after turning up to school

  • Barclays turns its back on Basildon

    Basildon has been dealt a major blow - banking giant Barclays has revealed it will not be moving its pensions headquarters to the town. The firm's life assurance division has spent the past six months building a massive, modern office block on a 13-acre

  • Black jeans ban on boy at Witham school

    An eight-year-old boy has been told he cannot wear his smart black jeans to school - but it is all right to wear tracksuit trousers. Alex Rudd has been been banned from playing out with pals at Witham's Powers Hall Junior School after turning up to school

  • Barclays turns its back on Basildon

    Basildon has been dealt a major blow - banking giant Barclays has revealed it will not be moving its pensions headquarters to the town. The firm's life assurance division has spent the past six months building a massive, modern office block on a 13-acre