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  • MP wades into PCSO car bill row

    A ROW over who pays the £1,500-a-year bill for a community police car has been taken to the top by Mannintree’s MP. Manningtree, Mistley and Lawford councils had been asked to stump up the cash for a car used by their two police community support

  • Museum having record year with time to spare

    MUSEUM staff are celebrating after welcoming their 2,000th visitor of the year. The Harwich Society Maritime Museum on Harbour Crescent has seen the footfall quadruple from 2013 with time to spare and curator David Horn is delighted with the turnout

  • Chance to meet weather girl in school poetry contest

    YOUNG poets and photographers have the chance to meet a television weather girl as part of a competition. Good Morning Britain’s meteorologist Laura Tobin will judge the Weather and Wildlife photography contest and Wild Weather Poetry competition

  • Searching High for lighthouse sisters

    LIGHTHOUSE bosses are trying to trace former residents as part of a history project. Sue Daish, who is the keeper at the Harwich Society’s High Lighthouse, is trying to trace three sisters named Latham who lived there during the Second World War

  • Anger as developers’ cash goes to Clacton instead

    HARWICH has lost out on a £100,000 council cash windfall after it was spent on a project in Clacton instead. The money was generated from a housing development in Dovercourt. Developers of the Taylor Wimpey estate, off Heron Way, handed over