New research reveals families are struggling with mounting debt, a major housing and leisure complex scales back shop and restaurant and cinema plans and football bosses claim the latest vandalism was intentional "sabotage".
Developers say they have been inundated with calls about homes planned for land in Lawford, a fundraising appeal is launched for a disabled teenager and a war veteran tells of his charity efforts in memory of his grandfather.
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