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  • 3 days ago | bbc.com | Lewis Adams

    Damaged bridge traffic lights rack up £367k billLewis AdamsLewis Adams/BBCNational Highways has used temporary traffic lights to enforce a lane closure on the bridge in ColchesterMore than £365,000 has been spent running traffic lights on a bridge damaged five years ago, the BBC can reveal. The eye-watering bill was racked up by National Highways on Severalls Lane bridge, which runs over the A12 in northern Colchester, Essex.

  • 5 days ago | bbc.com | Lewis Adams

    Bikers to honour victim of Nottingham attacksLewis AdamsSuppliedGrace O'Malley-Kumar enjoyed riding her Vespa scooterMotorcycle enthusiasts are due to gather in memory of a 19-year-old student killed in the Nottingham attacks. The event, in Harlow, Essex, will raise money for the Grace O'Malley-Kumar Foundation on 1 June. Miss O'Malley-Kumar, who once played cricket for Essex, was fatally stabbed along with Barnaby Webber, 19, and 65-year-old Ian Coates in June 2023.

  • 6 days ago | bbc.com | Lewis Adams

    Cost of living crisis hits donations to charityLewis AdamsLeigh MilnerSteve Huntley/BBCCharles Storer says his charity is "feeling the strain" of declining donationsA humanitarian charity warned supplies were "badly needed" as the cost of living crisis continued to affect donation levels. Hope & Aid Direct founder Charles Storer said it was "feeling the strain" of dwindling support from households and businesses.

  • 1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Lewis Adams |Eric Johnson

    Image source, Wadi FuneralcareImage caption, Plaques dedicated to babies and children were destroyed or damagedDamage to 61 graves in the Muslim section of a cemetery is "as bad as it can get", a public meeting has been told. No witnesses had come forward but forensic samples were being analysed, the force said at the meeting in Bushey on Wednesday.

  • 1 week ago | bbc.com | Lewis Adams

    Lewis AdamsBBC News, CambridgeshireA major hospital is checking if patients have been exposed to mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - after a person with the infection visited its emergency department. Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, has contacted 30 patients and 20 staff in an effort to detect if the rare virus has spread.

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Live updates from the sentencing of triple murderer Nicholas Prosper, who gunned down his own family in Luton. Police caught him before he carried out a mass school shooting, something he planned to "achieve lasting notoriety as a mass killer" https://t.co/PdEKRp91Uy