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  • Jobs relief as Peacocks stores saved from axe in takeover

    MORE than 40 jobs across Tendring have been saved after a troubled clothing chain was bought out. The Peacocks stores in Clacton, Frinton and Harwich will all remain open after the takeover by the Edinburgh Woollen Mill today. Each of

  • Village hall still needs volunteers to help run events

    A plea for extra help to run a village hall has fallen on deaf ears, according to the building’s management committee. Earlier this month Ramsey War Memorial Hall treasurer David Smith appealed for villagers to come forward and help the current committee

  • Car rolls over in crash

    A WOMAN has been taken to hospital with head injuries after being involved in a car crash. A green Renault Clio rolled over at 8.30am today in East Bergholt. The incident happened between Putticks Lane and East End Road. Suffolk Police said the woman

  • Paramedics miss response time targets

    Paramedics failing to hit a government target of getting to victims of serious injuries in under 20 minutes have been defended by a health campaigner. Figures compiled by the Trust and the Department of Health for December 2011 show the East of England

  • How the builders are tackling restoration of West Street homes

    WHILE victims of the West Street fire sort through their recovered belongings, builders are hard at work clearing rubble from the five homes and making them safe. It has been a careful and tedious mission, with Rose Builders, from Manningtree, treading