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Maldon hotelier reassures he has not closed up the Blue Boar
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,...
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Chelmsford mum blames bad financial advice for benefits...
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...
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Springfield drug dealer told to look at his sobbing mother in...
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...
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Chelmsford addict who stabbed his ex-girlfriend handed eight...
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...
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Gang accused of breaking into Maldon house with knife, crowbar...
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...
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Maldon people trafficker, 24, jailed for holding migrants...
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...
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Senior firefighter Mark Wilson pleads not guilty to five counts...
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...
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Chelmsford's Red Beret pub slams complainant at 'waste of time'...
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...
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Heybridge teen appears in court over Maldon A414 crash that...
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...
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Ex-Essex Police office worker Ian Black's 8,000 child abuse image...
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,...
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'I feel like Frankenstein's monster' says South Woodham Ferrers...
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...
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Emergency services launch bid to slash Essex road casualties
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,...
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Heroes rescue man stuck up to his waist in mud in Tollesbury...
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...
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Brownstock festival-goer admits possessing MDMA and diazepam...
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...
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Matthew Smith denies murder of pregnant Burnham-on-Crouch...
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...
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Mum Charlotte Wassell, 20, denies causing death of fiancé...
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...
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Charity golf day held by Blue Manor Windows raises thousands
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...
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Sex predator banned from internet jailed for 32 months for...
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...
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South Woodham Ferrers pensioner jailed for sadomasochistic sexual...
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...
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Essex bellringer used FIFA video game coins to bribe underage...
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...
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