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A NEW director will be taking over the troubled children’s services at Essex County Council as the department looks to appoint 40 foreign social workers.
Historian Andrew Summers says there was more to the swinging Sixties than pirate radio The release of The Boat that Rocks, a new film about ship-based pirate radio stations, has unleashed a new wave of nostalgia about the swinging Sixties.
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