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  • North Essex: Power cut hits 6,000

    A huge power cut blacked out 6,000 homes in north Essex and south Suffolk. Thousands of customers were without power for just over half an hour at 11am on Tuesday morning but about 60 were blacked out for more than six hours because of an underground

  • Colchester: Mystery tenant for Siege House

    An historic Colchester building could soon be open for business again. Owners Whitbread brewers are close to signing a new tenant for the 15th century Old Siege House in East Street - which bears bullet scars from the Civil War. The former Beefeater restaurant

  • Essex: MP urges use of US-style buses

    American-style yellow school buses could be the answer to improving the county's school transport system, according to a mid Essex MP. Braintree MP Alan Hurst thinks the buses would make it easier and safer for Essex children to get to school as well

  • Colchester: Leisure World hits national top three

    Leisure World in Colchester was ranked in the top three facilities in a national survey. The centre with its three swimming pools, gym, dry sports facilities, Aqua Springs steam and spa, artificial pitch and Charter Hall scored 75 per cent in the UK Quality

  • Rayleigh: Town clerk Myrna throws in the towel

    Rayleigh town clerk, Myrna Liles, has resigned but was yesterday (Wednesday) remaining tight-lipped about her sudden departure. Town council chairman Mike Handford, who is on holiday in America, will be told when he flies back today and other councillors

  • Colchester: Bailiffs close down bakery

    The supermarkets have claimed another victim in the battle for Colchester's shoppers. That's the view of chemist David Young after the news that another shop has closed in St Christopher Road, on the St John's estate. Customers turning up at Glad's Bakery

  • Colchester: Bailiffs close down bakery

    The supermarkets have claimed another victim in the battle for Colchester's shoppers. That's the view of chemist David Young after the news that another shop has closed in St Christopher Road, on the St John's estate. Customers turning up at Glad's Bakery

  • Braintree: Hunt for mugger

    Police want to question this man in connection with a mugging where a young woman was frisked for cash and thrown to the ground. The attack happened on a footpath between Panfield Lane and Springwood Industrial Estate, Braintree. The 20-year-old victim

  • Walton: £150 taxi fare shock

    A pensioner had to pay a £150 taxi fare to get home from holiday after the minibus she booked for the journey failed to show up. And now Doreen Sumption, 74, is facing a fight to get all her money back. The widow, who lives in Walton, was left waiting

  • Rochford: Mystery woman buried

    The burial of a mystery woman who was washed up on the beach at Foulness was due to take place yesterday (Wednesday) in Rochford. A dignified ceremony at the Hall Road Cemetery was promised by Rochford Council, which said any family members who came forward

  • Essex: Green light for A130 extension

    The second stage of the controversial A130 bypass, designed to ease traffic chaos in south Essex, has been given the go-ahead. It will run from the road between Sadlers Farm and the Fairglen Interchange to the Rettendon Turnpike, to link with the northern

  • Essex: Chronicle history on the move

    History will be on the move when unique 230-year-old files of the Essex Chronicle are transported to the new Essex Record Office this week. The leather-bound volumes of the first editions of the Chronicle, dating from 1764, will travel in historic and

  • South Essex: A shoulder for parents to lean on...

    Raising children places a strain on the emotions that many can find unexpected and overwhelming. The sleepless nights, worry, loss of social life and the financial burden can stretch even the calmest parent to their limit. But there is a lifeline - the

  • Theatre (Westcliff): Close up and personal

    Browsing through this season's Palace Theatre brochure, my boyfriend's eyes lit up at the sight of Miss Julie. A reaction that was evidently shared by quite a few other people as tickets for this raunchy rendition sold so quickly that an extra night was

  • Hadleigh: Showroom- to-supermarket switch

    Hadleigh's former Renault car dealership site in London Road may soon be home to a supermarket, it has emerged. Site owner Godfrey Davis has sold the land as development for a retail store after its decision to sell the Renault franchise to the Lookers

  • Southend: Fire chiefs slam arson rise

    Fire chiefs have hit out at arsonists as the number of 999 calls in Southend leapt by more than a quarter. Just last night (Wednesday), four of the ten calls received by the station were to minor arson attacks and one was a prank call. So far this year

  • Maldon: Coastguard team needed at station

    It's all systems go for a new coastguard station in Maldon. But volunteers are needed to help operate it. District councillors have approved the use of a workshop within the council's Princes Road depot as a coastguard station. The coastguard Land Rover

  • Colchester: Mystery tenant for Siege House

    An historic Colchester building could soon be open for business again. Owners Whitbread brewers are close to signing a new tenant for the 15th century Old Siege House in East Street - which bears bullet scars from the Civil War. The former Beefeater restaurant

  • Shoebury: Sex pest

    A chubby pervert exposed himself to two 11-year-old girls and performed a lewd act in the churchyard behind St Mary's Church in North Shoebury Road, Shoebury. The man was white, overweight, aged 30 to 40 and around 5ft 11ins tall. He had grey, curly hair

  • Soccer: Mel's bad break in reserves game

    Southend United goalkeeper Mel Capleton faces at least a year on the sidelines after breaking his right leg in Blues' reserve team clash with Brentford. The 28-year-old fans' favourite shattered his leg in a brave 50-50 challenge with Bees striker Julian

  • Mid-Essex: Airport rail link closer

    A rail link between Braintree and Stansted Airport has moved one step closer. A much-debated feasibility study has been given the go-ahead. Braintree is among the main candidates for a link to the Essex airport in a North West Essex Rail Services study

  • Mid-Essex: Recruitment drive for heart centre

    Hospital chiefs are launching a campaign to boost the number of cardiac nurses. Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust is making the move as plans are discussed for a new £1 million cardiac centre at Chelmsford's Broomfield Hospital. It is hoped the centre

  • Billericay: Coffee thieves gone in an instant

    A frustrated shop owner has vowed "enough is enough" after 20 jars of coffee were swiped from her store in an instant. Ms Gita Raval, who owns and lives above Hemmings Stores in Crays Hill, Billericay, is livid and puzzled at petty crooks attempting to

  • Essex: Painting memories of the county...

    From splashing paints about with the children at her local play group to being invited to put on art exhibitions, Colleen Campbell has come a long way in a very short space of time. "I was messing about, painting with the play group six years ago, when

  • Colchester: Hospital set for closure

    A £40 million plan has been unveiled which will centralise hospital services in Colchester. If it gets the go-ahead, it will mean the closure of the town's Essex County Hospital and relocation of 450 staff. Staff and services from the Lexden Road hospital

  • South Essex: c2c trains now debugged

    Rail company c2c has announced it is confident that major technical problems which have plagued the new Electrostar trains have been ironed out. Progress made after a series of technical problems means that more of the new trains could be on the tracks

  • Vange, Pitsea: Boy shot in throat

    A ten-year-old boy has been shot in the throat with an air gun while football training in a Vange park. Grant Bowers was knocked to the ground by the blow - believed to be fired by a sniper hiding in trees at Swan Mead park in Vange. David Orphan, Grant's