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  • Strutt is successful in Medal Three event

    CLACTON Golf Club's ladies played their Medal Three event and Liz Strutt was the winner, with a nett 70. Julia Hewett was second, on 73, and Katy Yates third, on 76. The Carol Finch Trophy was held in conjunction with this medal, being awarded

  • MP Giles backs call for cuts to plastic pollution

    CLACTON MP Giles Watling has backed a campaign to drastically reduce plastic pollution after spending hours picking rubbish out of Walton’s Backwaters. He is lending his support to a campaign by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and

  • Cash for heritage projects

    TENDRING is in line for five years of lottery support for heritage projects set to “protect, promote and celebrate the area’s rich history”. The district is one of 13 places across the country chosen by the National Heritage Lottery Fund as priority

  • Ex-Essex councillor wins Brexit Party seat

    A FORMER Tendring councillor has won his seat as an MEP for the Brexit Party. Matthew Patten, former chief executive of cricket and disability sports charity The Lord’s Taverners, has been elected in the East Midlands. He is one of three Brexit

  • ‘Stop storing cars on station’s former car park’

    A GOVERNMENT planning inspector has ordered that a former railway station car park can no longer be used as a car storage. It was feared the unsightly area could put off passengers from using Weeley railway station and could eventually lead to

  • ‘I lost the will to live and my life spiralled’

    A GRIEVING son who lost three close family members in three days has told how he was brought back from the brink of suicide after living on the streets. Barry May, 50, spent almost seven years working with Southend charity HARP, helping to house