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  • Families urged to get active outdoors

    Braintree Council is urging families to get outside more as part of a new scheme. The council is hoping to work with parents and carers to organise a variety of activities in parks and on greens. The plans are part of ‘Our Space’, the most recent

  • Fundraisers take the ultimate plunge

    DARE-DEVIL staff from an IT and printing company in Witham jumped out of an aeroplane to raise money for mental health charities. EBM Managed Services Group sent founder Mick Bailey and customer care representative Leon Bunn two miles above the

  • Reports say Prodigy star owed £7.3 million in debts and taxes

    Braintree music star Keith Flint was in several million pounds’ worth of debt by the time he passed away earlier this year, it has emerged. New numbers from the Probate Office have found the late Prodigy frontman owed roughly £7.3 million in debts

  • Iron off the mark after fine away win

    ST ALBANS CITY 0 BRAINTREE TOWN 3 Vanarama National League South BRAINTREE Town manager Glen Driver dedicated his side’s victory at St Albans City to the club’s supporters after they chalked up their first win of the new Vanarama National

  • Stansted volunteers dig in to help community projects

    AIRPORT staff have been lending a green-fingered helping hand to keep Braintree clean. A team from Stansted have been taking time off work to spruce up the area. In the past year, 350 employees have volunteered 7,000 hours of their time to the

  • Abused children 'sidelined'

    Abused kids ‘sidelined’ THOUSANDS of children across north Essex who have been abused or neglected are being “sidelined” by mental health services, it has been claimed. The NSPCC is calling on NHS England to set out how it will prioritise the

  • Petition set up in defence of a fence

    Petition set up in defence of a fence A Kelvedon couple have set up a petition to stop a housing association removing a waist-high wooden fence around their front garden, which they say is the only thing keeping their little girl safe from a busy