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Anger over plans to switch off street lights
3:00pm Thursday 29th July 2010
Residents have reacted angrily after Essex County Council said “unnecessary” street lights will be switched off between midnight and 5am.
Council aims to upgrade information services
9:33am Thursday 29th July 2010
PERSONAL information about residents could be shared between council departments and other public bodies, with your permission.
Can Conservatives’ big idea breathe new life into our villages?
9:00am Wednesday 28th July 2010
VILLAGES under threat of becoming “museums” because youngsters leave at the first opportunity could be saved by something called the Big Society.
Boss who took on Vaf talks about challenges
9:00pm Tuesday 27th July 2010
A BUILDING boss charged with rescuing Colchester’s multi-million pound art gallery from disaster has spoken frankly about the “challenging” project.
Why Paul Weller's musical protegee Tracie is playing it again
11:10pm Friday 23rd July 2010
HAVING cut her teeth in the music industry with the “modfather” himself, Paul Weller, musician Tracie Young had a taste of the high life at an early age.
Olympic challenge to start on Mersea Island
2:40pm Friday 23rd July 2010
A WALKING challenge with an Olympic flavour starts on Mersea Island on Saturday.
Cultured Griff Rhys Jones is an Essex man through and through
1:00pm Friday 23rd July 2010
F Essex County Council is still eager to rid the county of its “chav-like” reputation it couldn’t pick a better person than Griff Rhys Jones as a model for the archetypal Essex man.
It’s end of an era for Sir Charles Lucas
12:00pm Friday 23rd July 2010
A COLCHESTER school that has stood in the heart of a community for more than 40 years is about to go through a radical transformation.
Essex men who fought in Somme should be recognised with memorial
9:00am Friday 23rd July 2010
A CAMPAIGN for a memorial to mark a corner of a foreign field that is forever Essex has been launched.
Charity celebrates 90 years of giving blind people a vital lifeline
11:00am Thursday 22nd July 2010
AN Essex charity, which has been a lifeline for thousands of blind and partially-sighted people, is about to celebrate its 90th anniversary.
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