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10:14am Wednesday 29th August 2001
FEATURE: Nestling in the shadow of Mayday Hospital, a home-run clinic turns its back on conventional healthcare to take a more holistic approach to preventing and treating illness.
Shani Stevens is a former teacher who gave up her profession to learn the complex teachings of kinesiology.
Kinesiology is a complimentary therapy of detecting and preventing health complaints by testing the strength of muscles in the body.
According to the teachings of the practice, first discovered in the 1960s, each muscle in the body is linked to an internal organ.
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.
THE new face and body of lingerie giants Wonderbra is a Southend girl.
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.
PLANS for a huge waste plant in Basildon will be decided next week – and campaigners are fearing the worst.
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.
A RECORD number of students have signed up for courses at Seevic College.
A WOMAN is calling for the return of dog licences after her pet labrador was mauled by two rottweillers.
ORIGINAL photographs have emerged of the man widely known as the father of modern Canvey.
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.
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