Safeguarding your children over the Summer holidays
With the school summer holidays now here, the council’s sport and leisure team, in partnership with the NWG Exploitation Response
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Martin covers 10km a day for The Fire Fighters Charity
Martin Chester, ICT service delivery manager at Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, couldn’t walk a matter of weeks ago.
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New statistics show East of England’s lockdown ‘relationship realisations’
New research released by Relate, the leading relationships charity, paints a divided picture of relationships in the East of England
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Southend Coronavirus Action helpline provides a lifeline
Unlikely friendships and heaps of gratitude are the happy by-product of the Southend Coronavirus Action Helpline as it is confirmed
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Transgender nurse Angel shares her Pride
A nurse at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, has shared her story this Pride Month about the
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‘Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here, we might as well dance’
To celebrate this year’s International Nurses Day (Tuesday May 12), St. Luke’s Hospice in Basildon is sharing the inspiring journey
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E17’s breathtaking street art
Wood Street is the epicentre of Walthamstow’s thriving street art community. Here are just some of the amazing E17 murals.
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Leigh’s Famous Potatoes celebrate four decades
Leigh-on-Sea barn dance band The Famous Potatoes are celebrating forty years of music-making and entertainment featuring largely their original line-up
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The NSPCC’s Helen Marriner, Schools Service Coordinator for Essex, discusses Anti-Bullying Week
From November 11 – 15 the UK focuses on Anti-Bullying Week. To support this the NSPCC and Childline has launched
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Eight years of Essex parkruns inspire 78,000 people to take part
The parkrun phenomenon is celebrating it’s eighth anniversary in Essex after inspiring over 78,000 people to take part, running and
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