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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...

Battling to defeat 'sleeping soldiers'

Sapper Lee Hill from 33 Engineer Regiment Sweeping the ground for IED in a training Exercise

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

MORE than 250 IEDs were found in the first week of Operation Moshtarek – 40 in one small area south of Nad-e'Ali alone. The IED (improvised...

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Threat means we can never switch off

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

ARMED with just a metal detector and body armour, Robin Lawrence steps out of the Mastiff armoured patrol vehicle and into unknown territory. Ahead of...

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

BOMB disposal expert Jim Avent joined the army as a driver. He is now just one of nine men in the whole of Helmand qualified to walk up to an IED and...

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Technology vital to the survival of searchers

ROBOT HELP: Corporal George Agyemang demonstrates the 'wheelbarrow'. In the background is a Mastiff truck

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

SOPHISTICATED and constantly evolving, the Taliban's IEDs are difficult to locate. The British are currently working on new technology to help...

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Marathon run by dad for riding charity

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A BOREHAM man will run the London Marathon to raise money for a Chelmsford riding for the disabled charity, which helps his daughter. John Mean's...

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

WRITTLE: Essex's agricultural college is inviting people to its lambing open day next Sunday. Visitors to Writtle College Farm in Cow Watering Lane...

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