Threat to cancer patients' lifeline drug supply

6:40am Friday 15th August 2008

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

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Amber’s got specs appeal

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”.

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Boris Johnson calls for Thames Estuary airport

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.”

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

1:00am Wednesday 13th August 2008

BADGERS usually make the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

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Dom Littlewood: I'm still a Southend boy

2:35pm Friday 8th August 2008

TV PRESENTER Dominic Littlewood says his heart remains in Southend.

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It's the eggs factor

1:10am Tuesday 12th August 2008

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

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Degale wins in style

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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