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Threat to cancer patients' lifeline drug supply

John Welch fears losing his NHS Sutent prescription

6:40am Friday 15th August 2008

IN THE winter of 2005, John Welch was told kidney cancer would kill him within six months.

Amber’s got specs appeal

Amber Wenn - semi-finalist

2:20am Friday 15th August 2008

A TEENAGE girl is in the frame to win a modelling competition which could see her crowned “spectacle wearer of the year”.

Boris Johnson calls for Thames Estuary airport

Airport plan – mayor of London, Boris Johnson

7:00am Wednesday 13th August 2008

LONDON mayor Boris Johnson has renewed his call for a new London airport to be built in the Thames Estuary. He said: “With Gatwick full to bursting and Heathrow’s third runway already bitterly contested – and I bet it never gets built – it is ever more urgent that we investigate the possibility of a long-term solution in the form of a new and more eco-friendly international airport at a site in the Thames Estuary – of which you will be hearing a lot more in due course.”

Don't badger us, we didn't cause landslip

Community animals – a family of badgers in Benfleet

1:00am Wednesday 13th August 2008

BADGERS usually make the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Dom Littlewood: I'm still a Southend boy

Dom Littlewood

2:35pm Friday 8th August 2008

TV PRESENTER Dominic Littlewood says his heart remains in Southend.

It's the eggs factor

Dean Woodhouse and one of his pet chickens

1:10am Tuesday 12th August 2008

DEAN Woodhouse sits at home watching television with his three friends Holly, Murtle and Sophie.


National Sport News

Degale wins in style

James Degale

Updated 11:04pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

James Degale produced one of the finest performances of his career to score a comprehensive 8-3 victory over Kazakhstan's Bakthiyar Artayev and guarantee Great Britain's third boxing medal of the Beijing Games.


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