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UPDATED - Light aircraft crashes at Southend Airport

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AN aircraft has crash-landed at Southend Airport.

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Updated: Fire outside seafront restaurants

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FIREFIGHTERS have tackled a blaze near restaurants on Southend seafront.

John Lewis list: How your MP voted

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MPs facing further backlash. Have your say by clicking on comment

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Peace protest fine scrapped

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A PEACE activist has avoided jail for non-payment of fines.

Primary school gains praise for turnaround

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A STRUGGLING primary school has been praised by a Government watchdog for turning itself around.

	Tour treat for Scouts
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	SCOUTS from Leigh got the chance to walk the corridors of power and take tea with politicians.
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Updated: Southend-bound A127 reopened

8:12am Thursday 3rd July 2008

ROAD was closed for more than 16 hours for urgent gas main repairs. What's your view? Click on comment to have your say

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Flytipping sqaud set to start

7:48am Thursday 3rd July 2008

A NEW rapid-response team should be up and running in Southend by September to combat flytippers..

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	How we are being spied on by tyrant Mugabe's henchmen
	4:34am Thu 3 Jul 08
	ROBERT Mugabe, the Zimbabwean dictator, has secret police working on the streets of south Essex to spy on the 1,000 exiles living here, according to a high ranking campaigner.
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	If luck be a lady, then it’s Annette
	4:40pm Thu 3 Jul 08
	A BINGO caller is proving popular with punters following a series of big wins while she has been working.

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