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Colchester City Council says it deals with thousands of fly-tipping and littering incidents a year.
18/11/2025

Colchester City Council says it deals with thousands of fly-tipping and littering incidents a year.

☕️ 🍰 Plans to close four country park cafes have been abandoned.Facilities at Great Notley, Weald, Belhus Woods in South...
18/11/2025

☕️ 🍰 Plans to close four country park cafes have been abandoned.

Facilities at Great Notley, Weald, Belhus Woods in South Ockendon and Cudmore Grove in East Mersea were at risk of being shut.

Conservative-run Essex County Council reconsidered the plan after assessing the community value of the cafes and potential savings.

Michelle Giddons, who started a petition against any closures, said: "They've listened to us; how amazing is that?"

18/11/2025

Grieving families laid out shoes in Chelmsford city centre as a reminder of the increasing number of road deaths.

Fifty-one people died on Essex's roads in 2024 and police say 57 people have already been killed this year.

Campaigners laid out 51 pairs of shoes on Monday as part of the Safer Essex Road Partnership's (SERP) attempts to eliminate all road deaths in the county by 2040.

18/11/2025

🕺 "It's been a lot of years since winning Britain's Got Talent."

Ashley Banjo from Diversity on dancing on Strictly, opening their second studio following success at the one in Southend, and going on tour.

💳 The tap-in tap-out ticketing system is being introduced at barriers at Stansted and Southend airports, except for serv...
18/11/2025

💳 The tap-in tap-out ticketing system is being introduced at barriers at Stansted and Southend airports, except for services between Cambridge and Stansted.

London Travelwatch estimated thousands of people each year used contactless barriers at stations in the capital but were then fined up to £100 at Stansted for not having a ticket.

(📸 Getty Images)

Archie the chicken eggs-pert 🐓🥚 His family have rented a field where, with the support of his parents and older siblings...
18/11/2025

Archie the chicken eggs-pert 🐓🥚

His family have rented a field where, with the support of his parents and older siblings, he's living his best life as a very young farmer. ❤️

18/11/2025

When the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the date of her budget she said that the economy “is not working well enough for working people”.

But who are “working people” and what can the Chancellor do to help them?

Politics East presenter Amelia Reynolds joined the team at Royal Hotel in Clacton to find out how hard they work and how the government can help them and their families.

Watch the full episode here ➡️ https://bbc.in/4phPV0y

John Doubleday wants it to be "an entry point for engaging children" with the natural world.
18/11/2025

John Doubleday wants it to be "an entry point for engaging children" with the natural world.

The image of the teenager clinging to life in hospital would become one of the most harrowing to be shown in the British...
17/11/2025

The image of the teenager clinging to life in hospital would become one of the most harrowing to be shown in the British media in the 1990s.

On the night of her 18th birthday party, Leah Betts put on her best outfit, gathered with friends and prepared to celebrate. She also took an ecstasy pill that would ultimately lead to her death.

Thirty years on, what is the legacy of the tragedy and her parents' campaigning that followed?

(📸 PA Media)

17/11/2025

"I was overcome with emotion. It was amazing to finally be there and see it for myself."

BBC presenter Sadie Nine went to Ypres in Belgium to find her great uncle's name on the Menin Gate, who was an "unclaimed" soldier.

Robert Palmer died somewhere on the Western Front in France/Belgium during World War One, although Sadie's family does not know exactly when he died, or his age.

17/11/2025

"We're gonna get all the farm animals in the universe." 🤩

Kelvin ticked that off his bucket list ✅😍"You never say never in this life because things do happen, but to think that m...
17/11/2025

Kelvin ticked that off his bucket list ✅😍

"You never say never in this life because things do happen, but to think that my life would actually end up like that at Wembley is really a dream come true, and Sam made that possible."

Sam Ryder invited his old teacher, Kelvin Pratt to join him on stage before thousands of fans at Wembley.

(📸 Kelvin Pratt)

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