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11:16am Thursday 7th February 2008
SOUTH East Essex College football team have been boosted by the announcement of a sponsorship with Leigh-based company Tim Knight Architects.
The founder of the company, Tim Knight, is no stranger to local football as he manages Catholic United in his spare time.
"It is nice to forge a relationship with a local college and help encourage the wealth of playing talent that we have here in south Essex," he said.
"We all felt that it was important to help give something back to the community and sponsoring this kit is just a small way of doing that."
The squad will wear the new kit in the National Cup and regional competitions throughout the season.
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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