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Collision in rush hour traffic

10:18am Friday 12th March 2010

TWO cars collided head on, in rush hour traffic.

Water palaver

8:10am Friday 12th March 2010

Angry residents have been waiting since January for a water leak to be fixed.

Peer cash is above board

4:20pm Thursday 11th March 2010

Braintree Conservatives have defended cash donations received from a company linked to Lord Ashcroft.

Renewed calls for relief road

3:40pm Thursday 11th March 2010

Calls have been made again for a relief road between Hatfield Peverel and Maldon.

Pensioner is left frustrated with Warm Front

Boiler trouble: Caroline Auster from Braintree wishes she had stuck with her old boiler

1:00pm Thursday 11th March 2010

A pensioner has branded a Government-funded scheme “absolutely useless” after five months of problems with a new boiler.

Braintree: Plans for homeless night shelter

1:00pm Thursday 11th March 2010

AN emergency night shelter is being set up to combat Braintree's homelessness problem.

Waste site war of words

Disappointed: James Abbott feels Priti Patel and Brooks Newmark MP are trying to score points with voters off teh back of the Rivenhall Airfield decision

9:54am Thursday 11th March 2010

The fallout from a controversial waste site being given the go ahead has sparked a political war of words.

Attractions are awarded cash

9:00am Thursday 11th March 2010

Struggling tourist attractions have received a cash boost from Essex County Council.

Top Tories under fire over actions

Criticised: Priti Patel was been accused of political opportunism

9:46am Thursday 11th March 2010

Two top Tories have defended themselves against a claim they could have done more to oppose the Rivenhall waste facility.

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The Planning Dept at Braintree are hopeless - they dont care about conservation areas (where the rate-payers do) so dont be surprised if they totally ignore local feelings about yet more shoebox housing. − Quiet Life

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When will the authorities in this town clamp down on the anti-social behaviour of the kids who hang around in the town at night?! We've constantly had debates and consultations and whatnot about what to do about the problem but nothing has been achieved. Take the problem to the parents of the kids responsible, make them fix the damage to the public toilets for free instead of closing them and inconveniencing (no pun intended) the general law abiding civilised public. − ravenmorpheus

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