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- Live updates as junior doctors walk out of Essex hospitals in a row over pay and conditions.
- They will walk out for the first of three strikes at 8am this morning.
- Junior doctors are set to provide emergency care only for 24 hours from 8am this morning.
- 4,000 routine operations and procedures have been cancelled due to the strike.
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