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Time to vaccinate against chicken pox?

Vaccination – a new report is calling for all children to be inoculated against chicken pox

5:00pm Thursday 28th August 2008

chicken pox is often viewed as a rite of passage, which children must face as they grow up.

Exciting art on the way

5:00pm Thursday 28th August 2008

ABSTRACT art enthusiasts are in for a treat when what is being described as a vibrant display of work opens at a Westcliff gallery.

Crash driver abandons badly-injured passenger

5:00pm Thursday 28th August 2008

POLICE are still trying to trace a driver who fled the scene of a crash in which a woman passenger suffered serious spinal injuries.

Fake rape woman is spared jail sentence

Graham Tysoe

1:00pm Thursday 28th August 2008

A WOMAN who lied about her ex-fiance raping her has been spared jail.

Royal meeting for high-speed camera firm

5:00am Thursday 28th August 2008

A LEADING Southend company has been honoured by the Queen for developing a high-speed video camera that can record the path of bullets fired from guns.

Updated: Stuck lorry causes train delays in Thorpe Bay

The lorry near the bridge

1:05pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

A LORRY became wedged underneath a railway bridge causing delays for trains.


National Sport News

De Guzman move unlikely - agent

Jonathan de Guzman

Updated 5:07pm Thursday 28th August 2008

Arsenal target Jonathan de Guzman is unlikely to leave Feyenoord this summer, according to his agent.


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