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Death of a Canvey institution

Vi Foulger

11:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

A Canvey St John Ambulance volunteer, known to many as Auntie Vi, has died at the age of 80.

We're 600 years old... and still going strong!

Four of the sisters, from left, Gladys Dawsen, Joan Keeble, Mag Livermore and Dorothy Dear Chittick, and their brother Ron Chittock, who has just turned 79, who have marked their combined ages

11:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

A Basildon family of sisters and one brother has notched up a milestone - a combined age of 600 years.

Airport’s first flight was the legacy of a Frenchman

Louis Bleriot during an early experiment at Cambrai,

5:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009

AT 10.20pm on the night of 31 May 1915, a plane took off from an Essex aerodrome and headed south-west, its mission to intercept a hostile airship.

Dan’s minor Telstar role

Daniel Heeney is a member of the Joe Meek Society

4:00pm Thursday 18th June 2009

DANIEL Heeney can be seen making several appearances in the film Telstar.

Reluctant Tornados star Heinz

Billy Fury and Heinz Burt pose with a competition winner, Ada Winch, as Heinz returns to the music industry in 1974

4:00pm Thursday 18th June 2009

TELSTAR, the 1962 instrumental hit by the Tornados, was created as a tribute to the world’s first communications satellite.

Houseboat way of life for Leigh

Carol Edwards has written a history of  Leigh’s forgotten colony

10:00pm Thursday 11th June 2009

ONCE upon a time, there were three Leighs. Old Leigh by the harbour, modern Leigh on top of the hill, and a third Leigh, out on the creek.


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