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Half a million pounds project includes an e-bike hire scheme

Uttlesford District Council's offices in Saffron Walden. Picture: Will Durrant

Uttlesford District Council

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The measures are part of an Uttlesford clean air project

MM24 smoking

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Should the legal smoking age rise year on year?

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New defibrillator, Stansted, Essex: Group includes mum Alison Bradnick

Life-saving kit that residents hope they will never use

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Child holding animal feed near smiling parent, with chickens in a cage, Rainbow Rural Centre, Barnston, Essex

Farming | Gallery

Yarn spinning, bicycles and Spring lambs at Care Farm day

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A Dagenham girl, 16, was found guilty of criminal damage and theft at a T.K. Maxx store Picture: Cla

TK Maxx and Home Sense recall products after safety concerns

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File photo dated 03/10/14 of an NHS hospital ward. A lack of exposure to a common virus during Covid

Why are child hepatitis cases rising in the UK?

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A pedestrian wearing a face mask in Norwich amid the coronavirus pandemic. Picture: Denise Bradley

Coronavirus

Nine new Covid symptoms added to official list

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Shoppers wearing face masks

Coronavirus

Who will get free tests under new Covid plan?

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Poster for the mental health and wellbeing event at Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport, Essex

Joyce Frankland Academy

Health and wellbeing event for Uttlesford parents

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Lateral flow tests could cost Essex people £500 per person per year

Coronavirus

Essex: The costs by district of scrapping free Covid lateral flow tests

Piers Meyler, Local Democracy Reporter

The Prodigy's frontman Keith Flint performing on stage

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Charity single The Fire Is Out in memory of The Prodigy's Keith Flint

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People with Covid no longer have legal requirement to self-isolate

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Broomfield Hospital award winners Gary Pearce and Karen Cook with their award certificates

Broomfield Hospital staff are the first to win a new award

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce the easing of Covid Plan B restrictions.

Coronavirus

Boris Johnson announces end of all Covid restrictions and free testing

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A person receiving a Covid-19 jab

Second Covid-19 booster vaccination to be rolled out in Spring

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Dr Mike Gogarty, who led Essex County Council's response to the Covid-19 crisis, has retired

Essex County Council

Retires: Essex's public health director praised for 'saving lives'

Piers Meyler, Local Democracy Reporter

A message to self-isolate, with one day of required isolation remaining, is displayed on the NHS cor

Coronavirus

Self-isolation rules could be lifted a month earlier than planned

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Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow

NHS

NHS to spend £1m to recruit new maternity staff at one Essex hospital

Charlie Ridler, Local Democracy Reporter and Will Durrant

Carolyn Ollenbuttel and Vanessa Bell at Broomfield Hospital accepting gift bags from Oa Hackett of Littlelifts

NHS

Boxes of treats for Broomfield Hospital's breast cancer patients

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Melanie Chambers, deputy director of nursing and Victoria Bird, senior sister on Pegasus Ward, Broomfield Hospital, Essex

NHS

Broomfield Hospital's new children's ward opens

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Children on scooters, Great Dunmow, Essex

New Dunmow Saturday club launches for children

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St John's Ambulance volunteers in Essex

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St John's Ambulance launches volunteer appeal in Essex

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An Essex Police officer sprays Blok-it onto a surface in Braintree

Essex Police

Anti-drug spray trialled in Braintree's clubs, pubs, and public loos

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File photo dated 29/10/21 of a care home resident holding hands with her daughter. The Government ha

Coronavirus

Care home visitor limits to be lifted next week

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Benedict Punchard, senior charge nurse at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex

NHS

Critical care patients can rest and relax in new hospital garden

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Shoppers in Norwich staying safe in face masks.
Picture: Sonya Duncan

Coronavirus

How are England's Covid restrictions changing after Plan B?

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File photo dated 30/11/2021 of Health Secretary Sajid Javid who has announced Hotel quarantine for t

Coronavirus

'We must learn to live with Covid' says health secretary on Plan B's end

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement ahead of Prime Minister's Questions in the House of C

Plan B measures to be scrapped across England

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Close up of someone wearing a blue medical top with a stethoscope around their neck

NHS

Fears that Covid may cause Essex hospital staffing to get ‘very difficult’

Piers Meyler, Local Democracy Reporter

Sajid Javid was made Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in the January

Coronavirus

Covid self-isolation period to be cut to five days

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