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	Playground gets a £2,000 facelift
	2:01pm Fri 9 May 08
	A REAL community effort has resulted in a Thurrock school's playground being given a £2,000 spruce up.

	Will plans make us homeless?
	1:59pm Fri 9 May 08
	GEOFF PERCIVAL talks to residents of Herbert Grove, Southend, who say their homes have been blighted by Renaissance Southend’s development plans for the town centre.
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Wooden cutter being restored

1:48pm Friday 9th May 2008

A WOODEN boat dating back to 1940 is being lovingly restored at the reopened Seaking boatyard in Old Leigh.

Death crash jury visits scene

1:45pm Friday 9th May 2008

A MAJOR road was closed off while a jury was taken to see the site of a crash where a young man was killed.

Thundersley CAB set to reopen

10:26am Friday 9th May 2008

THUNDERSLEY is to get its own Citizens Advice Bureau again next week for the first time in three years.

	Pier will be new council's priority
	10:19am Fri 9 May 08
	SOUTHEND'S council leader has announced his top priorities for the coming year - increasing recycling, improving street cleaning and finally getting the redevelopment of Southend Pier under way.
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	Bricklaying is added to school timetable
	10:02am Fri 9 May 08
	SPORTS training, hairdressing and bricklaying courses will be just a few of the new subjects on offer to GCSE students at a Wickford school.

	Katie on cloud 9 after her adventure on Everest
	9:08am Fri 9 May 08
	A COURAGEOUS teenager made it halfway up to the top of the world when she embarked on an amazing gap-year adventure.

CSA nets £11.8m for south Essex kids

8:51am Friday 9th May 2008

THE troubled Child Support Agency is getting better at making absent parents pay up - with a total of £11.8million collected in south Essex last year.

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Bonnie is the new county council chairman

7:48am Friday 9th May 2008

A ROCHFORD councillor is the new chairman of Essex County Council.

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