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11:42pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
ESSEX SENIOR LEAGUE CUP: Bowers and Pitsea started their Group A programme with a home clash against Stansted and suffered a 3-2 defeat.
11:39pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
RYMAN ONE NORTH: Having suffered a 4-1 home defeat in their opener at home to Wingate and Finchley on Saturday, village side Wakering hit more trouble last night.
8:21pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
ESSEX reached 269-9 wickets on a truncated opening day of the County Championship match against Worcestershire at a soggy Castle Park in Colchester with three batsmen posting half-centuries whilst Kabir Ali, the country’s leading wicket-taker in the competition, finished with 5-77.
8:25pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
LAKESIDE Hammers have been rocked by news of a serious injury to Jonas Davidsson ahead of their match with Peterborough tomorrow evening.
12:34pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
WINNING the Friends Provident Trophy by beating Kent at Lord’s on Saturday was one of the best days of my life.
12:37pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
DAN Taylor, 17, and pal James Ackland, 15, landed an amazing 290-carp haul when they fished a three-day session at Basildon’s Gloucester Park Lake.
Updated 11:04pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
James Degale produced one of the finest performances of his career to score a comprehensive 8-3 victory over Kazakhstan's Bakthiyar Artayev and guarantee Great Britain's third boxing medal of the Beijing Games.
THE CHAMPAGNE was flowing in Sutton Road, Southend, with news the area’s post office will stay open.
A CONTRACT to build a £1.6bn superport at Shell Haven has been signed today. Owners Dubai Ports World have signed a deal with two contractors to build a container port and business park on the former Shell oil refinery site in Thurrock.
THE long wait for thousands of pupils will soon be over when they pick up their GCSE results tomorrow.
A PLANNED seven-storey block of flats would block out half the light in 19 rooms in a neighbouring property, a public inquiry heard.
SOUTH ESSEX’S latest millionaire says her new-found wealth still hasn’t sunk in – three weeks after winning £2.5million on the National Lottery.
METAL road signs across Essex are being replaced by cheap, plastic alternatives to curb the rapid rise of roadside thefts.
THIEVES stole school gardening equipment and made their getaway using a petrol mower, police believe.
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