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Popular radio host recounts message from Russell Brand which makes her ‘shudder’
Jo Whiley says she cried after Russell Brand was jailed for 10½ years for rape and sexual assault, recalling a message from the disgraced comedian on air.
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Urgent appeal to find missing boy, 15, believed to have travelled to Essex
Surrey Police appeal for missing 15-year-old Damien from Old Woking, believed to have travelled to Canvey Island. Officers are concerned for his safety.
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MAYHEM as crash brings major Essex route to a HALT
M25 crash: clockwise traffic held between Junction 27 for the M11 and Junction 28 for the A12, with delays building. Drivers urged to find alternatives.
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Emergency services rush to scene as crash CLOSES busy road
M11 crash near Harlow causes major delays after a multi-vehicle collision, with London-bound traffic held at Junction 7 for A414 and queues to Harlow North.
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Inquest opens into Essex boy, 2, who died after Cyprus hotel window fall
Inquest opens into death of two-year-old Jaxon Foster from Chelmsford, who fell from a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos, Cyprus, on July 12; father fined.
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Woman rushed to major trauma centre after 'falling from height' near major road
Woman rushed to a major trauma centre after falling from height on Ardleigh Green Road, Hornchurch, near the A127, on November 13, London Ambulance Service says.
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Man caught drug driving said he took cocaine at party as 'a one-off'
He also had his teenage daughter in the car at the time of the offence in January this year, Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard.
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Leisure World faced permanent closure without £8m investment, council leader says
Colchester council leader Paul Dundas said Leisure World faced permanent closure within months, without investment.
National News
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James Blunt bags first number one album in almost 20 years after Traitors stintJames Blunt has secured his first UK number one album in almost two decades, just weeks after missing out on victory on The Celebrity Traitors.
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Police probing number of sex offence allegations against David WalliamsThe force says it has received a number of non-recent allegations against the former Britain’s Got Talent judge “in recent days”
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Mauricio Pochettino breaks down in tears during United States press conferenceManchester United’s new head coach Mauricio Pochettino broke down in tears on Friday as he said leaving his role with the United States had been “one of the most difficult decisions” of his whole career.
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Piddington will bring legal challenge over asylum base plans parish councilThe Government will face a legal challenge over plans to convert a Ministry of Defence site near the Oxfordshire village of Piddington into accommodation for more than 1,200 detained asylum seekers, the parish council chairman has said.
Sport
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Danny Cowley wants Colchester United to turn promising attacking play into goals
Colchester United manager Danny Cowley on Gillingham game
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'I learnt a lot from him': Kien Connolly reveals advice from ex-England striker
Colchester United striker Kien Connolly on Andy Carroll and a first U's start
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Cowley v Ainsworth: Why experience could hold the key when U's host Gillingham
Danny Cowley’s Colchester United take on Gareth Ainsworth and Gillingham this weekend
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Colchester player facing months out as Williams pulls out of international duty
Colchester United boss Danny Cowley has revealed the latest on Kaion Lisbie and Jay Williams amid the club's mounting injury crisis
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Jo Chapman and Molly Thomson: Chance EncountersChance Encounters brings together Jo Chapman and Molly Thomson, two artists whose works reveal the intelligence of making in very different ways.
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Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent - The Minories, ColchesterA landmark exhibition of street art, featuring 28 original artworks by Banksy.
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Simon Carter: From the LandscapeStep inside a giant painting and get lost in a landscape inspired by the Essex coast.
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