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  • Planespotters help airport security

    Planespotters are helping to tackle crime. Over 150 aviation enthusiasts have joined Stansted Airport’s PlaneWatch scheme and will provide extra 'eyes and ears' for security around the terminal. All have been vetted and issued with identity

  • Park hosts charity events

    Runners young and old pounded the ground to raise cash for people with terminal and life threatening illnesses. Farleigh Hospice organised its second ladies-only Sunrise Walk and its first Lads ‘n’ Dads Dash at Great Notley Country Park on Sunday.

  • Sixth formers have a ball

    Sixth formers waved goodbye to their schooldays with a glamorous prom. Nicola South,18, and her friend Sam Hoad, organised the leaving bash for Year 13 students at New Rickstones Academy, Witham. The teenagers boarded a red double decker bus and headed

  • Security alert at Stansted

    Security was stepped up at Stansted Airport after staff found a suspicious item in hand luggage. Essex Police said the item was identified as it passed through central security at 9pm yesterday. Neither police nor the airport would confirm what it

  • U-turn on grave maintenance costs

    The cost of maintaining graves across the district has been cut, after grieving families complained about huge price hikes. Braintree Council put up its prices on April 1, doubling the cost of twice yearly planting for full graves from £75 to £150.

  • Carnival fever in Coggeshall

    Workmen pulled out the stops so that a carnival could run without a hitch. Hundreds of people enjoyed Coggeshall’s annual procession on Saturday, after engineers suspended gas works so that the floats could take their usual route. Twelve visiting courts