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Maldon hotelier reassures he has not closed up the Blue Boar

August 30, 2015, 10:00 pm
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A WELL-KNOWN hotelier has allayed fears that he plans to close Maldon's famous Blue Boar Hotel.Concerned residents had noted that the grade two listed building had been boarded up over the past week, sparking worries that it had been set to close down after a recent dispute between owner John Wilsdon and Maldon District Council's planning team.At the start of this month, Mr Wilsdon was fined in excess of £5,000 by Chelmsford Magistrates' Court over a planning breach at another of his...

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Chelmsford mum blames bad financial advice for benefits...

August 31, 2015, 10:04 pm
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A PRE-SCHOOL teacher's life has been turned "upside down" after she was prosecuted because of what she claims was a financial advisor's faulty advice.Single mother-of-two Jenny Hands, who gets council tax and housing benefit, was convicted on Thursday last week for failing to declare her children's £61,000 savings to Chelmsford City Council.The 44-year-old, of Derwent Way, Chelmsford, claims an advisor told her she did not need to declare it, leading her to wrongly claim...

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Springfield drug dealer told to look at his sobbing mother in...

September 3, 2015, 10:00 pm
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A BUNGLING drug dealer who asked a plain-clothes police officer "how many grams do you want?" was told by a judge to look at his sobbing mother as he was spared jail.Callum Allington, 19, was spotted using his mobile phone while driving into the car park of Tesco in Springfield Road, Chelmsford, on February 6 earlier this year.When approached by PC John Davey, the teenager, who was accompanied by a friend, asked the officer how many grams he wanted and a subsequent search of the...

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Chelmsford addict who stabbed his ex-girlfriend handed eight...

September 4, 2015, 10:00 pm
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A DRUG addict who forced his way into his ex-girlfriend's house and stabbed her in the chest with a screwdriver has been jailed for eight years.Ricky Crosher, 32, from New London Road, Chelmsford, was also sentenced to a further five years on licence for the vicious attack, which took place in the 17-year-old girl's home in Billericay late on the night of November 4, 2014.While he was originally charged with attempted murder, Crosher, who has 39 previous convictions, was sentenced for grievous...

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Gang accused of breaking into Maldon house with knife, crowbar...

September 8, 2015, 11:50 am
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A GANG who are alleged to have broken into a house with a crowbar, knife and baseball bat, will stand trial later this year after denying the offence in Chelmsford Crown Court.Adam Lee, 20, Shane Reynolds, 26, Sam George, 28, and Chantelle Reynolds, 25, gained entry to the property on Spital Road, Maldon on February 3 and attempted to inflict grievous bodily harm on the inhabitant, Timothy Dowley, it is claimed.Lee, of The Causeway, Heybridge, Shane Reynolds, of Anchor Lane, Heybridge, George,...

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Maldon people trafficker, 24, jailed for holding migrants...

September 9, 2015, 10:00 pm
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A PEOPLE trafficker who helped smuggle desperate Indian migrants into Britain in the back of lorries has been jailed for 12 years.Iraqi Karzan Rasoul, 24, of Dryden Close, Maldon, was part of a gang who exploited vulnerable victims by holding them hostage in a flat.The immigrants had each paid around £10,000 to Indian agents for the journey but were forced to find another £10,000 before they were released from the location.On Friday, seven of Rasoul's associates were jailed for a...

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Senior firefighter Mark Wilson pleads not guilty to five counts...

September 14, 2015, 8:09 am
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A senior fireman has denied indecently touching new recruits while in charge of training.Mark Wilson, 51, pleaded not guilty to five counts of indecent assault allegedly committed while he was in charge of training firefighters in Essex. The alleged offences date from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 1990 and are said to have taken place against five men over the age of 16 at a training centre in Witham. Wilson, of Bishop's Stortford, Essex, pleaded not guilty to all five counts at Chelmsford...

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Chelmsford's Red Beret pub slams complainant at 'waste of time'...

September 19, 2015, 10:00 pm
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A PUB that faced claims of allowing drug dealing and underage drinking among other allegations has declared a licensing hearing a "waste of time" after the sole complainant failed to turn up to give evidence.The Red Beret pub in Melbourne Avenue, Chelmsford, will only face minor condition changes to their premises licence after a city council licensing and regulatory committee meeting on Thursday last week.Lee Lawrence made various accusations in writing to the authority that he saw...

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Heybridge teen appears in court over Maldon A414 crash that...

September 23, 2015, 4:07 am
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A TEENAGER has appeared in court charged with causing the death of a 67-year-old after a head-on collision in Maldon last year.Michael Post, died in Broomfield Hospital just after 10.30pm on the night of October 9, 2014, after his blue BMW 320 was involved in an accident with a Renault Clio driven by 18-year-old Lewis Cross earlier that same day.Appearing in Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday morning, Cross, a former student at the Plume School, of Scraley Road in Heybridge, entered no...

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Ex-Essex Police office worker Ian Black's 8,000 child abuse image...

September 24, 2015, 3:35 am
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A FORMER Essex Police office worker found guilty of downloading nearly 8,000 indecent images of girls as young as two claimed he did so for research purposes.Ian Black, 54, of Yare Avenue, Witham, claimed he had amassed the hoard over nine years as part of an educational awareness activity for his Boys' Brigade group.He also suggested that some of the stash found could have been already on corrupted and second hand external hard drives and memory sticks he bought online – that he believed...

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'I feel like Frankenstein's monster' says South Woodham Ferrers...

September 24, 2015, 9:00 pm
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THE victim of a vicious glassing whose scars make her "feel like Frankenstein's monster" breathed a sigh of relief after seeing her attacker jailed.Lauren Field, 25, was given four years on Friday last week for two counts of grievous bodily harm after a brawl in South Woodham Ferrers early on New Year's Day 2014.After seeing Field sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court, 21-year-old victim Kim Murphy said the verdict provided some closure.The business development executive, formerly...

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Emergency services launch bid to slash Essex road casualties

September 24, 2015, 9:00 pm
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EMERGENCY services came together to start a countywide campaign aimed at cutting the numbers of people killed and seriously hurt on Essex's roads.Casualty reduction manager for Essex Police Adam Pipe, who was at The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) launch at Hylands House in Chelmsford, said: "Our strategy is one of enforcement, but also of educating drivers."Hopefully, through the offender retraining schemes we can change behaviour. Rather than just having offenders pay a fine or...

Emergency services launch bid to slash Essex road casualties

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Heroes rescue man stuck up to his waist in mud in Tollesbury...

September 25, 2015, 9:00 pm
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TWO heroic groundsmen launched a lengthy rescue mission to save a man stuck waist-deep in thick mud just minutes before the tide would have engulfed him.Aaron Simpson and Dan Ansell had been working at Tollesbury Marina on Saturday morning, when a friend spotted the man.The pair sprang into action to help the man, in his 60s and named by Aaron as Steve Thompson, looping a rope underneath his armpits and digging the mud away from his legs before pulling him to safety.Aaron, 25, of Roman Court, ...

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Brownstock festival-goer admits possessing MDMA and diazepam...

September 27, 2015, 9:00 pm
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A 21-YEAR-OLD arrested at Brownstock music festival with a catalogue of illegal substances has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply.Bobby Manzi, who is currently serving time in Chelmsford Prison for previous offences, appeared via video link in Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday, where he admitted to possession of and intent to supply MDMA, a Class A drug and diazepam, a Class C drug, at the Stow Maries festival on Saturday, July 11, this year.The court heard that Manzi had 112...

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Matthew Smith denies murder of pregnant Burnham-on-Crouch...

September 28, 2015, 3:47 am
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A man has denied murdering pregnant mum-of-two Becky Parker, who was found dead in her home in July.Matthew Smith, 23, of Wood Corner Caravan Park, Maldon, appeared in Chelmsford Crown Court this morning (September 28) where he pleaded not guilty to one count of murder. Isobel Parker, known to her friends and family as Becky, was found in her home at Booth Place, Burnham-on-Crouch, on Friday July 17.Smith was arrested on Friday afternoon, before being charged with the 23-year-old's murder.Dozens...

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Mum Charlotte Wassell, 20, denies causing death of fiancé...

September 28, 2015, 6:29 am
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A young mother has denied causing the death of her fiancé and father of their child in a horrific head-on Chelmsford crash.Charlotte Wassell, 20, of South Woodham Ferrers, pleaded not guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday (today) to one count of causing death by careless driving.Passenger Kailen Spreadbury, 20, died instantly when Wassell's red Ford Fiesta collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction on the A1114 Essex Yeomanry Way on Saturday, March 1, 2014.Their son...

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Charity golf day held by Blue Manor Windows raises thousands

September 28, 2015, 9:00 pm
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A BRAINTREE window firm swapped glass for grass at special charity golf day that raised £3,500 for a disabled adults' day centre.Blue Manor Windows, based in Chilford Court, invited 60 employees and business associates to Benton Hall golf club in Witham on September 11 for the inaugural event.Michelle Strickland, 31, from Shalford, who is personal assistant to company owner Steve Clark, said: "My dad, David Strickland, received treatment at the Tabor Centre three years ago, prior to...

Charity golf day held by Blue Manor Windows raises thousands

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Sex predator banned from internet jailed for 32 months for...

September 29, 2015, 9:00 pm
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AN INTERNET sex predator banned from going online for coaxing underage girls to strip on webcams is behind bars for a second time – after being caught contacting youngsters using a smartphone.Back in 2010, Liam McGregor, 24, formerly of Lucas Avenue, Moulsham Lodge, Chelmsford, admitted blackmailing children into sending him photographs of them performing sex acts after contacting them online.He was made the subject of a three year community order, placed on the sex offenders' register...

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South Woodham Ferrers pensioner jailed for sadomasochistic sexual...

October 5, 2015, 9:31 am
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A PENSIONER who acted out his sadomasochistic fantasies on an unwilling victim he met on a dating site has been jailed for six years.Roger Evans, aged 65, from South Woodham Ferrers, had previously been found guilty by a jury on counts of sexual assault and assault by penetration after beating her and penetrating her vagina with a truncheon during the ordeal.Judge John Dodd QC, presiding over the hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday, heard that on March 9, 2013, Evans, who has been...

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Essex bellringer used FIFA video game coins to bribe underage...

October 6, 2015, 8:40 am
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AN EX-FACTORY worker and bellringer sexually abused boys as young as eight by bribing them with cash and video game currency, a court heard.Liam Cann, 22, of Goldhanger carried out his sexual activities around the county across an eight year period from 2006 to 2014, the prosecution claimed on the first morning of his trial.Cann faces a 24-count indictment involving six alleged victims, a number of whom he met while playing Xbox online.Opening the case for the prosecution in front of Judge John...

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