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The Latest Breaking News from Essex

Council considers legal action to stop asylum seekers being sent to Essex airfield

Residents say village of Wethersfield ‘in the middle of nowhere’ is not a suitable place for 1,500 men

The Guardian - UK

Lying teacher who told colleagues she had a glass eye after cancer banned from classroom

Julianne Cox has been banned from teaching indefinitely after falsely telling colleagues at St Helena School in Colchester, Essex, she battled cancer and that her eye had been removed

Daily Mirror

Man who lost dad's ashes on drunken pub crawl reunited with them after binman saves day

Stan Blade decided to take the ashes of his dad, Stephen Jewitt, to Southend, Essex, to enjoy the pleasure rides and dodgems but ended up on a nine-hour bender where he lost them

Daily Mirror

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‘How would you like to be in this dump?’: families’ horror at privately run UK care homes

Operators are pocketing large sums from councils while relatives speak of shocking conditions

The Guardian - UK

Man pleads for help after losing father’s ashes in Tesco bag on nine-hour pub crawl

Stan Blade, 39, planned to make a TikTok video of himself visiting pleasure rides at Southend, Essex, with father Stephen Jewitt’s ashes as a final farewell

The Independent UK

Where are Jade Goody's loved ones now? Rarely seen mum, husband's new life and famous kids

Jade Goody shot to fame as the bubbly blonde from Bermondsey in Big Brother in 2002 before tragically losing her battle with cervical cancer in 2009 aged 27

Daily Mirror

Commuter areas where London renters save up to £400 a month — even after train costs

‘Inner commuter belt’ areas offering the highest savings for exiting tenants compared to the cost of renting in Greater London

Evening Standard

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Billie Faiers cuddles baby daughter Margot in adorable photoshoot

Former The Only Way Is Essex star Billie Faiers has posed in a series of stunning new snaps of herself and her baby daughter Margot, whom she gave birth to in February

Daily Mirror

Rise and Fall cast for Greg James' Channel 4 show - from GB News star to posh aristocrat

We take a look at the latest batch of reality TV contestants gracing our screens in the new Channel 4 show Rise and Fall - from a controversial political commentator to a member of an old aristocratic family

Daily Mirror

Boy, 5, diagnosed with ultra-rare brain cancer after routine eye test

Tyler Keys, 5, from Essex, was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer after going for a regular check-up. Tyler was recommended to have the test after his teacher became concerned about his learning

Daily Mirror

A year ago my Essex home town was abuzz at becoming a city – now a ‘toxic’ culture war has taken over

Southend’s struggles tell us a lot about modern England, says Tim Burrows, who writes about society, culture and place

The Guardian - UK

The Cockney kid who's ended up playing for Wales after a phone call from Mike Ruddock

He's from Essex and his brother was attached to West Ham football club

Wales Online

Wizz Air customer sends bailiffs to airport to collect money owed for cancelled flight

Essex dad Russell Quirk waited two months for the money back from his family's cancelled flights to Faro - and sent bailiffs to Luton Airport when they wouldn't pay back the extra cash lost

Daily Mirror

Chief constable tells of officers using food bank as he pushes for better pay

Essex Police chief Ben-Julian Harrington raised the issue of pay in a speech to new recruits.

The Independent UK

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Chief constable pushes for pay rise for officers to halt ‘erosion of talent’

Essex Police chief Ben-Julian Harrington said a number of people had left the force citing financial reasons.

Daily Mirror

Woman seriously injured in dog attack after stopping car to help animal stranded in road

A woman in her 50s got out of a car on a road in Chigwell, Essex, after spotting a dog in the road but the animal left her with a number of serious injuries as police launch an investigation

Daily Mirror

UK beach branded 'abysmal' and 'worst place on Earth' as visitors warned 'to stay away'

Visitors to Jubilee Beach in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, have taken to TripAdvisor to warn others to "stay away" due to the raw sewage, drugs and litter they found there

Daily Mirror

Smiling killer boasts he 'knows what happened' to police as he returns to murder scene

Marek Hecko, who was jailed for life yesterday, could be seen swigging from a bottle of alcohol outside a home in Essex as he told a police officer that he "knows what happened"

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Tall man standing at 6ft 7ins is tired of being told by strangers to 'mind his head'

Stephen Brown, 43, from Basildon, Essex, has revealed what life is like standing at 6ft 7in tall and says he often feels like a 'freak show' with strangers in the street asking for pics

The Independent UK

‘Controlling’ man ‘murdered partner who was about to leave him’

Gary Bennett is accused of killing Madison Wright, whose body was found in Wat Tyler Country Park in Pitsea, Essex

The Independent UK

‘Controlling’ man murdered partner who was about to leave him, court told

Gary Bennett is accused of killing Madison Wright, whose body was found in Wat Tyler Country Park in Pitsea, Essex, in July 2022.

The Guardian - UK

Colin Iskander obituary

Other lives: GP who set up a practice in his own home and helped to train doctors across Essex

The Independent UK

Lorry crashes into a row of houses in Essex killing a man

Detectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward

Daily Mirror

'Lovely' pupil dies after 'cardiac arrest' in PE lesson and being airlifted to hospital

The Essex pupil, named locally as Kayla Ere, was described as a "lovely student" who "impacted so many lives" in heartbreaking tributes shared by her family and school

The Guardian - UK

RAF base considered as asylum centre has contamination risks, says report

Former RAF Wethersfield in north Essex could have unexploded ordnance, asbestos and other problems, government papers say

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