Laura Fidler

2 weeks ago | essexlive.news | Laura Fidler

Every day foster carers across Thurrock provide safe, loving homes for children who cannot live with their birth families, whether for a few nights, several months or even years. The decision to become a foster carer may come with plenty of questions about how it could affect your life, but often it will be one of the most fulfilling choices you could ever make. Foster carers, Dave and Rachel, started fostering in 2021, and the decision changed their family's life.

2 weeks ago | essexlive.news | Laura Fidler

Network Rail warns customers of upcoming work that will impact some routes in Essex over the first May bank holiday. Passengers travelling on Network Rail trains may be affected from 4-5th May while works are conducted. While most of the railway network across East Anglia will be open for passengers to travel, some services will be affected by planned engineering work.

2 weeks ago | essexlive.news | Laura Fidler

As the sunshine teases us in typical English fashion, getting some almost guaranteed warm weather on a break away seems like an ideal antidote. With summer just out of our grasp, taking advantage of our upcoming May bank holidays for a city break might be the answer. Skyscanner, a holiday comparison site, has an offer that you can’t refuse with flights to Rome over the first of the May bank holidays– in just over a week.

2 weeks ago | essexlive.news | Laura Fidler

Rob Freeman was 23 and working alongside his dad as a quantity surveyor in Chelmsford when he developed a cough over Christmas in 2010. According to his brother Toby, who lives in Colchester and was only two years younger, Rob was in the prime of his life, building a career alongside university studies and busy being “ridiculously good at any sport and a great drummer and musician.” The following ten months changed everything, after Rob was diagnosed with late stage cancer.

2 weeks ago | essexlive.news | Laura Fidler

An Essex boy was left in "constant pain" and "unable to sit down" due to a tumour. Jacob Bird, 16, was diagnosed with a perianal haemangioma - a benign tumour growth made of extra blood vessels in the skin around his lower back and spinal area - when he was just six months old. He spent the next eight years as an outpatient at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) undergoing regular MRI scans - while they monitored his growth as it shrunk naturally over time.