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Ignorance of strokes highlighted
12:30pm Saturday 4th July 2009
MORE needs to be done to make people aware of the dangers of strokes, NHS officials say.
Have your say »Twigs in pensioner's flue could have killed him
7:00am Saturday 4th July 2009
A GAS engineer stunned a pensioner by telling him he was lucky to be alive – after finding the flue of his gas fire blocked by hundreds of twigs.
'We haven't told mum her grandson killed her son'
5:20pm Friday 3rd July 2009
THE mother of a Colchester man murdered by his son has still not been told who was responsible for his death.
Patient had to clean her own filthy hospital ward
12:50am Saturday 4th July 2009
A SICK woman was so horrified by the lack of cleanliness on her hospital ward she cleaned it herself.
Council security clampdown after leak to the Gazette
12:20am Saturday 4th July 2009
COUNCILLORS could be denied access to parts of Tendring Council’s buildings under new plans.
Disabled gran who helped deliver daughter's baby
12:00am Saturday 4th July 2009
A DISABLED gran has been nicknamed ‘Nanny Midwife’ after helping her daughter give birth to her premature son on the floor of their living room.
Firm shuts doors on customers
6:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A DOOR shop in Colchester has closed, leaving customers worrying if they will get goods for which they have already paid.
Pupil, 7, was ‘whipped by kids with a skipping rope’
5:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A SEVEN-year-old girl was tied up by fellow pupils and whipped with her skipping rope.
Conwoman who took charity cash is jailed
2:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A WOMAN has been jailed for conning money from donors who thought they were helping to send a young cancer sufferer to America.
Mystery of the Alphamstone stones
12:20pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A STONE circle dating back to Neolithic times could have once stood in what is now the grounds of a church.
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