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  • Mervyn makes an instant impact

    SKIPPER Mark Jones is backing high-profile new signing Mervyn Westfield to be a major hit for Frinton Cricket Club. The former Essex man smashed an unbeaten century in a friendly against Harold Wood, on Saturday. He bludgeoned 121 not out in

  • Lease agreement means green light for £1m Naze centre

    A LEASE has been agreed for Walton’s historic Naze allowing a £1million visitor centre development to go ahead. Essex Wildlife Trust secured funding and planning permission to create a state-of-the-art centre at the Naze for residents and visitors

  • Fire crews tackle workshop fire in Clacton

    FIREFIGHTERS wearing breathing apparatus tackled a blaze at a workshop in Clacton earlier today. The fire broke out in a plant room in Ford Road at 10.45am. The fire was out by 11.30am. An investigation into the cause has been launched

  • Amputee Helen fulfills marathon dream on new running blade

    AMPUTEE Helen Chapman’s lifelong dream has been running the London Marathon. She lost the lower part of her right leg in 1998 due to a car crash injury that never properly healed. Since then she has competed in a host of sporting events, including

  • Holland seal their place in final

    HOLLAND FC have booked their place in this season’s Kent Blaxill Essex and Suffolk Border League Knockout Cup final. The coastal side advanced after a brilliant 2-0 victory at home to premier division high-fliers Harwich and Parkeston, on Saturday

  • Injury blow for goal king Aaron

    FC CLACTON’S Aaron Condon may have played his last game this season. The Seasiders’ 23-goal top-scorer suffered a hamstring injury during Tuesday’s 2-0 defeat at Norwich United. Now there is a chance he might not play again during the club’

  • Kirk: we’re feeling united and positive

    IT’S the dawn of a new era for rejuvenated Clacton Cricket Club. And team manager Gary Kirk says team spirit is the best he has known for years, ahead of Saturday’s Marshall Hatchick Two Counties Championship curtain-raiser at home to St Margarets

  • Last chance to join hospice pier to pier walk

    THERE is still chance to sign up for next week's pier to pier walk for St Helena Hospice. The event sets off from Clacton Pier on April 27 at 10am for walkers completing the return leg, while the seven-mile one-way challenge begins at 11am.

  • Birthday girl picks gruelling charity walk over party

    A TEENAGER chose to complete a gruelling ten-mile charity walk on her 16th birthday instead of having a party. Rachael Liddle, of Clacton, chose to take on the challenge on Sunday to boost Help For Heroes and Cancer Research. Joined by pal

  • Lifeboat launched to help stranded boat

    CLACTON lifeboat was launched to help a broken-down motorboat near Seawick. Coastguards received a call for help from the boat, which had six people on board, at about 4.40pm on Wednesday. The boat’s crew were told to drop their anchor to prevent

  • Office staff in masked raid horror

    POLICE are hunting three masked men who carried out a terrifying raid on a lettings agency in Holland-on-Sea. The balaclava-clad men burst into Countywide Lettings, on Holland Road, and demanded cash from shocked staff. Owner Kaye Clark, 63

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