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On this day: Essex Archive

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• Kirby Cross: Chemist counts cost as yobs hit windows

  A chemist is having to shell out thousands of pounds after his windows were smashed twice by vandals in the space of a week. read more

• Tennis: Floodlights battle reaches tiebreaker

  A battle by residents to pull the plug on plans for floodlights at a tennis club is entering its final set. read more

• Colchester: Shop staff help stop tricksters

  Youngsters trying to buy large quantities of eggs or flour before Hallowe'en tonight and bonfire night will be questioned by store staff. read more

• Colchester: Jumbo repair ill will top £600,000

  Colchester's historic Jumbo water tower needs about £672,000 spent on repairs, a planning appeal heard. read more

• Soccer: Canvey Island 4-0 Leyton Pennant (Essex Senior Cup)

  Canvey are back on the trail of the Essex Senior Cup trophy that has brought them so much glory in recent years. read more

• Social services rap: Council hits back

  Southend Council is to complain to Health Secretary Alan Milburn after he branded the town's social services as one of the worst in the country. read more

• Essex: Flood defence review agreed

  The Government has agreed to review the complex way different bodies take responsibility for flood defence and prevention following pressure from Braintree's MP. read more

• Thurrock: Teen pregnancy targeted

  A new sexual health drop in clinic has opened in Thurrock in an effort to combat teenage pregnancy within the borough. read more

• Colchester: Teenager in river named

  Police have named the Colchester teenager whose body was found in a Suffolk river. read more

• Soccer: Reading 2-1 Colchester United (LDV Vans Trophy)

  Forget the score, Reading should have won this second round LDV Vans Trophy tie at their Madejski Stadium by a hatful of goals. read more

• North Essex: Driver dies as car hits lorry

  A motorist died when his car went into the back of a stationary lorry. read more

• Chelmsford: Learn as you shop

  Chelmsford children will now be able to learn the 3R's whilst their parents shop. Sainsbury's in Springfield opened the UK's first children's supermarket-based learning club, Sainsbury's Discovery Club, on Saturday, October 2001. read more

• Thundersley: Branson's delight

  Jubilant Sir Richard Branson today spoke of his delight after plans for his multi-million pound Virgin Active leisure centre in south Essex were given the green light. read more

• Tennis round-up: Pedder and Gibson enjoy trio of successes...

  Sam Pedder from Cranston Park Tennis Club and Aimee Gibson of Brentwood Hard both won titles at the Woodford Wells Junior Open last week. read more

• Essex: Mass gas men walkout fear

  A mass walkout by emergency gas repair workers was looming today in a dispute over housing allowances. read more

• Soccer round-up: Reading 2-1 Colchester United; Dagenham and Redbridge 3-2 Luton Town; Southend Unit

  Dagenham and Redbridge are the last Essex side in the LDV Vans Trophy after Colchester United and Southend United were both knocked out of the competition. read more

• Colchester: Garrison's new terrorism fears

  The Parachute Regiment based at Colchester is facing a heightened threat from the Real IRA, according to a national newspaper report. read more

• Harold Wood: Pupils' breast intentions

  Pupils at a Harold Wood school have been putting on their fundraising thinking caps in a bid to raise loads of cash for the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign. read more

• Essex: Vote of thanks

  Voluntary organisations in Essex have had good reason to say Thanks A Million to Essex Community Foundation. read more

• Writtle: Chris is pumpkin king

  An Essex student is celebrating after his two giant pumpkins were declared the biggest in the country. read more

On this day: Essex Archive