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The Akenfield writer’s ancient Essex farmhouse will be opened up as a sanctuary for people and wildlife

From animal onesies to colourful lights to ride-on cars, children share ideas from their own wish lists of top toys

Exclusive: Person who complained tells Guardian that columnist’s ‘Jew haters’ post was inflammatory

Allison Pearson, the highly respectable Daily Telegraph middlebrow columnist, was naturally startled when, on Remembrance Sunday morning, two police presented themselves at her door to tell her that she was under investigation for allegedly stirring up racial hatred in connection with a social media post on X and invited her…

Daniele Aldegheri, 49, was found by police cowering under a duvet at his home

Columnist Allison Pearson was visited by two officers at her home in Essex

The singer-songwriter, 79, has previously picked up a shovel to fill the crevasses along his damaged road in Essex.

The six-bedroom home has been put up for sale by former Liverpool striker Andy Carroll and wife Billi Mucklow amid their divorce

Stuart Coldicott, then 36, sustained serious head injuries in Colchester city centre

Network hopes to deliver projects across Essex, Norfolk, Kent and Suffolk, crucial to ‘decarbonising’ power system, a year earlier

Donald Trump will soon be back on Air Force One – but can the Essex seaside town expect an unlikely visit from the presidential motorcade, thanks to the president-elect’s British cheerleader-in-chief? David Maddox reports