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  • Have your say over ‘vision’

    RESIDENTS and businesses are being urged to have their say over Tendring Council’s priorities for the next four years. The authority has published its draft Corporate Plan for 2020-2024, its vision for the period, and is looking for feedback from

  • Nurse’s fears over prescription costs

    A NURSE says lives are being put at risk because asthma patients cannot afford their prescriptions. Bonnie Beard, a respiratory nurse who works at Great Bentley surgery, has backed calls for the costs to be reviewed. A report by Asthma UK found

  • Service station targeted by hammer-wielding robbers

    POLICE are appealing for information after a hammer-wielding robber targeted a service station in St Osyth before making off empty handed. Two people pulled up on a moped at the Gulf Service Station in Pump Hill at around 8.20pm on 26 September

  • Supporters' event planned to "re-engage" Blues fanbase

    AN Ipswich Town supporters' event is being arranged to help “re-engage” the Blues’ fanbase in Tendring. It is being run by the Manningtree supporters’ branch, in conjunction with the Clacton branch, and will take place at Lawford Venture Centre

  • Coffee shop owners celebrate first year in business

    THE owner of a coffee shop in Clacton is celebrating a successful first year in the business. Cup of Coffee is a long running café in Rosemary Road but changed hands last year when it was taken over by Scott Neilson, who kept on the same employees

  • Tendring start with a clean sweep in the National Cup

    TENDRING Volleyball Club's ladies began their season with a 3-0 sweep (25-9, 25-13, 25-11) against the University of East London’s second team, in the second round of the National Cup. They played with a consistent aggression that carried them through

  • Masters success secures Order of Merit glory for Levermore

    FORMER Clacton golfer Jason Levermore underlined his reputation as one of the best players in East region history by winning the Order of Merit for a sixth time – thanks to victory in the KJW Millbrook Masters. Levermore started the week in third

  • Ladies' teams go head-to-head in the first week of the season

    THE women of Walton and Windsor went head-to-head in the first week of the new Clacton and District League season. It was Walton D who ended 7-3 victors in the third division contest against Windsor Merlins. However, Sharon Gowlett, of the Merlins

  • Compassion rules on charity trek

    IN troubling times such as these, when our polarised political landscape is dividing the nation, cynicism towards our supposedly dwindling positive traits can be an easy attitude to flex. But for all of civilisation’s uglier qualities, there can

  • Fish merchant Ken: ‘We have to take back waters’

    A VETERAN fish merchant, who has won recognition from the Queen, believes we must ‘take back our waters’ and leave the EU for the sake of the fishing industry. Ken Green, 85, lives in Brightlingsea and is the owner of Ken Green Fish Merchants in