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1:41pm Tuesday 7th October 2008
Bolton defender Andy O'Brien has signed a contract extension which will keep him at the Reebok Stadium until 2011.
The centre-back, who joined from Portsmouth in the summer of 2007, has settled in well and is enjoying his football again.
"I'm eternally grateful for the opportunity that Bolton Wanderers gave me, and the way that the people at the club - the supporters, the manager Gary Megson and the players - have treated me," the 29-year-old told the club's website.
"This has made me enjoy my football as much as I ever have done in my career, so hopefully I'll continue to do that and we'll pick up results.
"From my point of view, I'm happy at Bolton so if they were happy to keep me then there was never a problem.
"I'm delighted to have extended my contract and there's plenty of hard work ahead of me now."
Six town centre car parks are to be free in the days before Christmas, to entice shoppers.
A new company has started up and taken on a section of a Witham workforce who were made redundant in June.
A village is fighting to re-open its post office which closed following the suspension of its postmaster.
Tributes have been paid to Coggeshall’s longest serving chorister who has died aged 88.
The mother of Shannon Matthews has been condemned as "pure evil" and told she faces a substantial jail sentence after being found guilty of kidnapping her own daughter.
Ex-Braintree Town defender Leo Roget has returned to former club Rushden and Diamonds.
A busy weekend for Springfield Striders culminated in a new club record and some fine team performances.
Roy Keane resigned as Sunderland boss after deciding he had taken the club as far as he could.
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David Walliams revealed that he welled up when he saw Quentin Blake's illustrations of his book.
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