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10:45am Tuesday 13th January 2009

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Submarine crisis 90 years ago

11:51am Thursday 22nd February 2007

90 years ago Addressing the annual meeting of the Farmers' Union, Mr E.G. Preyman MP said the Admiralty was face to face with another submarine crisis on a wider basis, and even more brutal than the last, and even more regardless of the ordinary laws of humanity, but as the former threat was defeated, this would be too. This onslaught will suffer the fate of its predescessor. The enemy's intention was to stop our food supplies and starve us into premature peace. Every farmer could do his bit to prevent that and this was the only thing the farmer should think about.

Butlins remembered

10:54am Monday 19th February 2007

An internet exclusive by Charlie Douglass COLBAYNS Media Arts Group is staging an event to celebrate the former Butlins Holiday Camp in Clacton. They have been awarded £50,000 by the Heritage Lottery Trust.

Floods: Unpleasant task

9:11am Tuesday 13th February 2007

A CARPENTER employed by the old Clacton Urban District Council, I was on the Monday following the floods sent to Jaywick to secure the bungalow of one of the officials from the town hall.

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