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12:00am Saturday 14th June 2008
Excel, London
Thursday July 24 £58
Package price includes £32.50 seat, booking fees and return coaching. Arrive at venue 7pm, 2 hours to explore the motor show before concert begins.
A FAMILY'S pet dog has been killed in a fierce house blaze in Pitsea. Four crews rushed to the scene of the fire, in Wythefield, at about 4pm. While making a search of the family home firefighters pulled out two greyhound dogs. But one of the dogs had already died from smoke inhilation.
A YOUNGSTER who became stuck in a park roundabout had to be cut free by firefighters.
POLICE who have spent a week digging up land in Hockley are searching for the body of a woman who went missing 40 years ago, the Echo can reveal.
CUCUMBER covers and kiss-casting kits may have failed to impress TV’s Dragons, but they are set to make an impression at a Southend garden show this weekend.
THEY are girls on the game and their sad stories tend to sound very similar... tales of drug abuse, mental illness and debt.
PROPOSALS for an upmarket hotel linked to sporting facilities in Garon Park will be submitted to Southend Council in the next two months.
THE leader of Castle Point Council has called on the Government to give assurances on future funding to tackle the risk of flooding.
A NATIONAL think-tank has backed Southend Council’s claim the 2001 census underestimated the number of people living in the town.
A FARMER lost £10,000 of wheat in an arson attack which destroyed a quarter of a field.
UNHAPPY residents claim some improvements to a main street in Thorpe Bay may cause the road to regularly flood.
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