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  • Mental health nurse is struck off

    A MENTAL health nurse has been struck off for a lack of competence while handing out medication to patients. Peter Alan Angell used to work as a mental health nurse for the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust between March 2011

  • Very special items occasionally turn up at our Naze cliffs

    The Naze is internationally renowned for its geology and Special Site of Scientific Interest designation, plus the fossils such as sharks teeth which can be found on the beach. Occasionally very special items turn up. Last year a Mammoth tooth

  • Pantomime smashes theatre box office record

    THIS winter’s pantomime at Clacton’s Princes Theatre has again broken the box office record. More than 12,700 people went to watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, starring The Bill’s Graham Cole, singer Linda Nolan and Graeme Mathews, with ticket

  • Rail fare rise is a ‘tax on going to work’

    ANGRY commuters in Tendring claim another rise in railway fares is a “tax on going to work”. Greater Anglia customers will now be paying a minimum of 2.6 per cent more for season tickets, singles and returns to London. The move comes as new research

  • Assault triggers armed police response

    POLICE officers carrying guns and wearing bulletproof vests were seen outside a seaside property after an allegation of assault. A woman reported to police on Friday she had been assaulted at an address in Jaywick. Police went to the scene to

  • ‘Let us ride our horses on Frinton beach in peace’

    FED-UP horse owners have called for urgent action to be taken after a rider was abused and threatened by residents during a saunter along the seafront. Nicola Brown, from Hornchurch, often travels to Frinton to ride her ponies and horses on the

  • Crooks steal cash in raid on Co-op ATM

    THIEVES escaped with cash after failing to steal an ATM. Police today launched a manhunt to catch two raiders who smashed the windows of the East of England Co-op store in Coopers Lane, Clacton, at about 4.30am yesterday. They tried to remove