AN eyesore site could be turned into a 60-bed care home and learning disability unit, a mum hits out over school bus travel, and Peter Halliday sensationally resigns as leader of Tendring Council.
Plans for concrete blocks and wire cages on Dovercourt seafront are slammed as "cheap and tacky", and railway club is broken into.
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