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Pop-up Essex Writers House

For the whole of March, Chalkwell Hall in our dear Chalkwell Park is being turned into a pop-up Essex Writers House thanks to Metal Culture and a partnership with Essex Book Festival.  

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Fat Friends The Musical

The hit TV show Fat Friends from award-winning national treasure Kay Mellor (creator of Girlfriends, Love, Lies & Records, Band of Gold, The Syndicate and In The Club) has burst onto the stage in a brand-new musical, with original music by Nick Lloyd Webber. 

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Enough is Enough

For those of you that aren’t aware our lovely, bubbly, confident and ever so ditzy Lisa has been knocked for six. 

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Votes for Women in Leigh on sea!

On 6 February 2018 it will be exactly 100 years since some women were granted the right to vote in the UK for the first time.

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Restaurant fined over £6,000 for noise offences

A Portuguese restaurant in Southend has landed a bill of more than £6,000 after consistently failing to repair a noisy extractor fan.   

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Topping the tables for new GCSE measures

Statistics published yesterday by the Department for Education (DfE) confirmed Southend-on-Sea as an overall area performed well above the national* average under the Government’s new GCSE measures, coming 16th out of 151 local authority areas for the new Attainment 8 measure, and 13th for students achieving Grade 5 or above in English and maths combined (54.1% compared to 42.6% nationally).   

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Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

A well-established quiz night in London, Manchester and Brighton, and they came to little old Southend on Sea last weekend.

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Best of Both Worlds

Are you fed up with the hustle and bustle of Leigh on Sea?...........

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Second Agent Syndrome

I have done it loads & loads of times and unfortunately I have had it done to me a few times as well.

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Body of woman discovered

The body of a woman has been discovered in Marbella, near to where missing mum of two Rebecca Muldoon was last seen.

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Shoebury Common North is set for £300,000 of improvements

The proposals form part of the draft budget for 2018/19 which will be discussed by the council’s cabinet next week (Thursday 18 January).

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Southend Borough Council Draft Budget for 2018 Released

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Win a pair of tickets to Son Of A Preacher Man

Win a pair of tickets to this award winning show at the Cliffs!

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Number of families living in temporary accommodation in Southend increases

The number of familiies living in temporary accommodation in Southend peaked at 116 in November 2017 causing increased concern. 

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Legal Q&A: Icy Paths & Liability

As a householder would I be liable if the postman injured himself slipping on ice on my path?

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Gregg Wallace - Greg on Food!

The star of BBC’s MasterChef, Inside The Factory and Eat Well For Less takes to the stage for this brand new live show

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Local Trainee GP appears in court on various sexual offence charges

Ali, who worked in Leigh, denied six counts of sexual assault over allegations made by former paitents along with possession of child sex abuse images as he entered a not guilty plea at Southend Magistrates Court.

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Retailing giant Toys 'R' us possible plan to close various stores

The business, which locally has stores in Basildon and Lakeside, have instigated a Company Voluntary Arrangement which bosses say will then allow them to make changes in a bid to secure fresh growth.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Finally after 30 days I will be able to shave off the caterpillar that has been growing on my top lip

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Vintage steam train travels through Southend, Leigh & Hadleigh

Choo Choo.....

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