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30 years on, Southend's fast food gets a McMakeover
7:40am Saturday 19th July 2008
THIRTY years ago, we were a nation of Wimpy lovers.
Comments (0)The Empire is ten years old - and bigger than Godzilla!
5:00am Saturday 19th July 2008
THE giant cake baked and scoffed to celebrate the Empire cinema’s 10th anniversary was impressively large and, as such, entirely appropriate.
Tanya's bra night...for charity
5:33pm Thursday 17th July 2008
MODEL Tanya Rowe is spearheading a charity fundraising event this evening. Tanya Rowe, 27, is organising the bra-themed event event at the Railway Hotel, Clifftown Road, Southend, tonight (Saturday).
It's the homeless couch generation
8:30am Friday 18th July 2008
WHAT does the word homelessness mean to you? For most people, the image of a rough-looking person in a sleeping bag begging for change on the streets springs to mind. Yet the vast majority of homeless people are actually sleeping on friends or relatives’ couches without a permanent home to call their own.
ELO back on the road... sort of
10:56am Thursday 17th July 2008
HAVING earnt their place in music’s hall of fame by clocking up over 100 million album sales, the Electric Light Orchestra are back on the road, with two chances to see them in South Essex.
£1m wooden powerboat is taking shape
6:26pm Wednesday 16th July 2008
A £1MILLION wooden luxury powerboat is being built at the restored Seaking Boatyard, in the heart of old Leigh fishing village.
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McClennan: It was a very important win
Updated 7:14pm Sunday 20th July 2008
Leeds coach Brian McClennan hailed his side's "dogged determination" after they inflicted a 37-24 defeat on Catalans Dragons at Stade Gilbert Brutus in stiflingly hot conditions.
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Newsagent chases robbers
TWO robbers who threatened a newsagent with a spanner and a baseball bat fled after being surprised by a second employee. The thugs demanded cash from the shopkeeper at Shanta newsagents in Woodgrange Drive, Southend. But the crooks were surprised by a second man who chased them out of the shop.
Boy's wheelchair stolen
THIEVES have stolen a disabled schoolboy’s wheelchair. Sam Fowler, nine, who suffers from cerebral palsy, now faces spending the whole of the six-week school break stuck at home.
Cash to move Greensward to academy status
A TRAIL-BLAZING school has been given a £160,000 cash injection as it prepares to become the first non-city academy in the country.
Probe to find out why Canvey Way work went wrong
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched to find out why the Canvey Way roadworks have caused so much chaos.
Oooh Matron, trainee nurses return to Southend
NURSES can now be trained in Southend after an break of almost two decades.
Stowaways found in lorry
TWELVE suspected illegal immigrants were arrested after being found in a lorry delivering goods to the Ikea store near Lakeside.
£240,000 lottery win
A MYSTERY man has scooped a massive National Lottery prize – without even leaving the house.
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