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  • Haiti fund boosted by Rotary £5k

    Two collections in two months have netted more than £5,000 for good causes. Witham Rotary club will be helping good causes in the district as well as sending aid to help those in Haiti. Last Saturday members of the Rotary club took to Newland Street

  • Thousands set aside for allotments

    A host of projects have attracted cash, including updating street signs in Witham. Almost £45,000 was agreed to be spent in the next financial year on projects in Witham, Hatfield Peverel, Kelvedon and Silver End. Councillors at a meeting of Witham

  • Stansted: Aid sent to Haiti

    EMERGENCY supplies and equipment bound for earthquake stricken Haiti have been flown out of Stansted Airport. The British Airways Boeing 747 freighter left yesterday, carrying aid from Oxfam, the Red Cross, UNICEF and the World Food Programme. David

  • Braintree: Pensioner critically ill after road crash

    AN elderly woman is critically ill after she was in collision with a car on a zebra crossing. The 71-year-old pedestrian from Witham and a silver Ford Fiesta, driven by an 82-year-old local woman, collided at 3.50pm yesterday in Rayne Road,