In this week's Standard:

Councillors and residents vow to fight library cuts, Betty Holbrook trends on social media with 38,000 likes, and Harwich set to host it's first drug addiction seminar.

Police issue warning after three men are found wandering unaccompanied inside a care home, Catholic school to become first primary in Harwich to be an academy, and an animal campaigner visits a garden centre to check on the reindeer.

Plus picture specials of Acorn Village's Christmas market and the u-boat parade to mark a centenary since the surrender.