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Some selected pictures of damage caused by the gale-force winds that swept across north Essex on Thursday, January 18.
Click on any thumbnail image for a bigger version of the picture.
Send in your own pictures to us by emailing them to i-witness@nqe.com. For details of how to send in pictures direct from your mobile phone, visit our i-witness section.

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Toppled - this truck on the A133 was blown over. Picture: STEVE BRADING (53775-f)
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Isolated - although the tree fell on the side of Point Clear Road, St Osyth, dangling cables meant the road still had to be closed. Submitted picture
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Getting rough - the sea at Clacton gets choppier. Picture: STEVE BRADING (53773-c)
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Closed - part of Marine Parade, Clacton, closed after this sign twisted. Picture: STEVE BRADING (53773-e)
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Wind damage - Jim Cocks looks at the tree that fell on his home in Wivenhoe. Picture: ROB SAMBROOK (53816-2)
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Impasse - the Elmstead to Frating road is blocked by a fallen tree. Picture: STEVE BRADING (53774-b)
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Toppled - neighbours Sarah Aves and Simon Arnold, of Darina Court and Dale Close, Stanway, begin to clear away the tree debris. Picture: TERRY WEEDEN (53787-1)
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Blocked - the entrance to the car park at Digby House, Middleborough, Colchester, was blocked after gale-force winds toppled a tree. Picture: TERRY WEEDEN (53786-1)
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Collapsed - the rear wall of Twister’s bar in Colchester. Picture: TERRY WEEDEN (53788-1)
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Sealed off - police closed off access after debris fell from Jumbo, Colchester. Picture: STEVE ARGENT (53649-4)
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Blown away - the damaged top of Jumbo, Colchester. Picture: STEVE ARGENT (53649-1)
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Damaged - deputy headteachers Robin Gibson and John Wiltshire beside the damaged building at Stanway School. Picture: STEVE ARGENT (53819-1)
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Write-off - Marianne Whitehouse and Debbie Harrison with Eddie and Victoria Elkins, whose car was badly damaged when a tree fell on it in Black Notley. Picture: SEANA HUGHES (53814-b)
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Aftermath - the Rev Pat Prestney after gales blew a tree on to her new car in Lawford, destroying it. Pictures: STEVE BRADING (53824-d)
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Stunned - Richard Bates after a tree crashed into his garden in King George’s Avenue, Dovercourt. (53837-c)
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Demolished - a wall destroyed by a falling tree in Low Road, Dovercourt. (53840-a)
    
Some selected pictures of damage caused by the gale-force winds that swept across north Essex on Thursday, January 18.
Click on any thumbnail image for a bigger version of the picture.
Send in your own pictures to us by emailing them to i-witness@nqe.com. For details of how to send in pictures direct from your mobile phone, visit our i-witness section.
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