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Jan 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Cameron Hill
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Fundraiser - Stephen and his daughter Isabella (Image: Stephen Salmon) A VETERAN who tragically lost the use of both his legs while serving in the British Army is embarking on a remarkable challenge to complete a double-marathon in a wheelchair. Stephen Salmon was enlisted in the British Army for five years before falling ill with a neurological infection in 2008 that caused paralysis in his legs and led to his discharge.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Unchanged - Plans for the hotel will go before the council next month (Image: Newsquest) MAJOR plans to create flats at a 248-year-old hotel in Southend High Street will be decided on next month with developers confident the ambitious proposals will get the green light.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
THE site of a devastating inferno that ripped through several businesses and burnt for 36 hours could be restored under fresh plans for a new warehouse. Developer Progress Warehouses Limited has submitted fresh plans to Southend Council for a large warehouse in Progress Road, Eastwood. The area has remained vacant since a fire in 2023 that destroyed a packaging business and car parts business.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Updated plans - The old Barclays building (Image: Newsquest) TWO empty business in Leigh - including the former Barclays bank - could be transformed into homes under fresh plans. Proposals have been submitted to Southend Council this week to see the old bank, on the Broadway, turned into three flats while the former Boni-Vee hardware shop, on Leigh Road, could become one flat.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Expansion - Wallasea Island will be expanded (Image: PA) A marshland nature reserve built with the help of more than three million tonnes of soil from the Crossrail scheme is to be expanded by the size of 140 football pitches. RSPB Wallasea Island, in Rochford, includes vast amounts of material excavated during the construction of tunnels beneath London for the Elizabeth Line.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Campaign - Campaigners to save All-Saints Church (Image: Doodleshots) CAMPAIGNING residents are upping their fight to save a 178-year-old church from the threat of closure as they prepare for crunch meetings with bosses this week. All Saints’ Church, on Fambridge Road, South Fambridge, has been at the centre of a campaign by parishioners and residents since October when they were told it could close over declining numbers and the need for costly repairs.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Furious residents form action group as yobs 'caught' killing squirrels in Leigh park (Image: Google Street View / Provided / Stock image) FURIOUS residents have formed an action group in a bid to protect wildlife after yobs were “caught on camera” killing squirrels in a park. A group of three men were spotted on Saturday shooting catapults at squirrels in trees in Belfairs Park, Leigh, with horrified onlookers claiming multiple animals died as a result.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Crash - A man was hit by a car on London Road (Image: Newsquest) A man has been hit by a car on a road in Hadleigh The crash, which saw emergency services flood London Road at around 4.30pm yesterday, closed off access to for more than an hour. An ambulance was dispatched to the scene and assessed that the man did not need to be taken to hospital. It is understood that the crash was at a low-speed.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
echo-news.co.uk | Cameron Hill
Hospitalised - Teddy Snelling (Image: Jasmine Snelling) A FAMILY have been hit with another hammer blow after their one-year-old son was readmitted to hospital with sepsis and pneumonia just days after being released. The Snelling-Smith family, from Basildon, have faced a torrid three weeks with three of their children spending Christmas in intensive care.
