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CHELMSFORD: Health trust admits errors over hanging

Monday, March 15, 2010

A MENTAL health hospital where a suicidal father was unsupervised and found hanged has admitted a catalogue of failings which his family claim could have prevented his death.

Ben Morris, 20, was admitted to the Linden Centre, Broomfield, in December 2008, where an...

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A12: Weeks of misery to come

A12 roadworks deadline extended between Witham and Hatfield Peverel. C9J1443

Monday, March 15, 2010

MOTORISTS face at least a further month's misery after the A12 roadworks at Witham overran due to the cold weather. Highway bosses have admitted that...

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CHELMSFORD: Shop held up by gun raider

Armed robbery at Melbourne Co-op C9JI1620

Monday, March 15, 2010

A MASKED gunman burst into a Co-op, shoved his pistol in the manager's face and made off with a handful of cash in the town's first gunpoint robbery...

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ESSEX: Lord Hanningfield appears in court

Thursday, March 11, 2010

LORD Hanningfield has appeared in court to deny charges of fraudulently claiming over £2,000 in expenses. The Tory peer, who stood down as leader...

EPPING: Pedestrian dies after crash

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

A man has died after being knocked down by a car on Friday night. John Eldred, 56 of Hemnall Street, Epping, Essex, was near Theydon Bois Village Hall...

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ESSEX: Women unite to 'exorcise' Essex girl image

Monday, March 08, 2010

HOW do Essex girls put on the light after sex? They open the car door. Thanks to such tasteless jokes, several females in our county struggle with...

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ESSEX: Our poll reveals election confusion

Monday, March 08, 2010

WITH a general election looming, little more than a third of Essex residents know who their MP is. And widespread changes to constituency boundaries...

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