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  • Portrait prize in Alzheimer’s raffle

    A BRAINTREE artist has put his portrait-painting skills up for grabs as top prize in a charity raffle in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK. Mike Wills is offering one lucky winner a personal commission if they scoop first place in the £1-a-ticket sweep

  • Braintree teen cadet earns prized promotion

    A YOUNG Braintree cadet has received a prestigious promotion to Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major. Joshua Mesina, 17, was given his new rank at the Essex Army Cadet annual camp in Surrey, making him the first Essex cadet in two years to be receive

  • Lead thieves strike Braintree street for second year running

    POLICE are appealing for information after lead was stolen from homes in a Braintree cul-de-sac for the second year in a row. Thieves struck at three properties in Westergreen Meadows on the night of Monday, July 29, ripping the metal linings from

  • Bid to improve signage for town hospital

    A COMMUNITY health group has welcomed confirmation of a merger between mid and south Essex hospitals but warns signage for the main health facility in Braintree must improve as it prepares to welcome more patients from outside the district. Braintree

  • Housing blueprint could be too late to block homes

    AN independent examiner has finally waved through the Hatfield Peverel neighbourhood plan two years after it was first submitted but two weeks after the approval of multiple housing developments that many residents opposed. Gabrielle Spray, cabinet