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'Extremely insulting' says group as statutory inquiry plea rejected

Melanie Leahy with her late son Matthew. Picture: Leahy family

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Piers Meyler, Local Democracy Reporter

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Families are campaigning for answers into why loved ones died, and are disappointed the latest ruling is a 'no' to a statutory inquiry
Ben-Julian (BJ) Harrington will be the next Chief Constable of Essex Police. Picture: ESSEX POLICE

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'Please let's not mess this up' - Police chief on restrictions easing

Louise Dunderdale

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Toby Freeman of Colchester for The Robin Cancer Trust

Record break attempt for self-check for testicular cancer

Louise Dunderdale

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Saffron Walden Library. Picture: SAFFRON PHOTO

Coronavirus

Essex libraries offer take away self test Covid kits

Louise Dunderdale

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Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Covid - A Year On

New clinical trial to prevent deaths after Covid patients leave hospital 

Andra Maciuca

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R4U Councillor Arthur Coote

Covid - A Year On

Councillor's reflection a year after Covid fight

Andra Maciuca

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Emma Kemsley of Newport, Essex

Here's what I wish I had known - Emma's letter to her younger self

Louise Dunderdale

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Dr Rina Gupta

Covid - A Year On

Covid - A Year On: Covid care staff cheered by kind words

Reporters, Dunmow Broadcast

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Care at home: what is it, and how can it help?

Abigail Brown

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The world is becoming more reliant on technology

Covid - A Year On

Reader survey reveals Dunmow is ready to go back to eating out and to...

Louise Dunderdale

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Hundreds of people died with Covid in the Braintree district area

Covid - A Year On

Covid: All the deaths in Braintree towns and villages over a year 

Andra Maciuca

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Uttlesford Covid-19 deaths in towns and villages between March 2020 and March 2021

Covid - A Year On

Covid: All the deaths in Uttlesford towns and villages over a year 

Andra Maciuca

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The COVID-19 vaccines work by mimicking the infection, tricking the body to believe you’ve got the infection so you then...

Coronavirus

Hundreds classed as clinically vulnerable yet to get Covid jab

Piers Meyler, Local Democracy Reporter

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Recycling and waste collection crews have been left messages of thanks and support from householders

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Reader survey on Covid impact: please share your views

Louise Dunderdale

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Woman receives vaccination to upper arm

Coronavirus

Hatfield Heath, Hallingburys and Rodings have highest percentage of...

Andra Maciuca

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Still from the new film being created about healthcare workers and the Covid pandemic, by Anglia Ruskin University's...

Anglia Ruskin University

Healthcare workers Covid-19 experiences are being turned into a documentary

Louise Dunderdale

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vial of Covid-19 vaccination

Essex County Council

Unpaid carers urged to come forward for Covid-19 vaccinations  

Andra Maciuca

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Hudson with his Nana Sengar Haydon of Felsted

Nana's generous gift gives Hudson a new liver - and a lot more energy

Louise Dunderdale

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Gavin Francis and Rachel Clarke

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Literary festival to mark lockdown anniversary with live online event

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The new Cambridge Festival

Mental Health

Experts to discuss mental health at new online festival

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The Wellcome Sanger's DNA Pipelines team are sequencing coronavirus

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Tracking Covid at the Sanger Institute

Alison Cranage, Science Writer at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Man fined for driving to Dunmow to exercise dog

Louise Dunderdale

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Stansted teacher Kayleigh Trainor suffered a stroke aged just 27.

Stroke at 27 - now teacher is giving something back

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Charlie Cornish, the Chief Executive Officer of Manchester Airports Group, owners of London Stansted Airport

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Airport group's CEO reacts to Covid roadmap and says Budget offers hope

Louise Dunderdale

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Kemi Badenoch MP

Saffron Walden MP on Covid vaccine successes and new planning rules

Kemi Badenoch MP

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In Cambridge Festival event 'Empathetic Machines: can chatbots be built to care?' Dr Shauna Concannon examines what it...

University of Cambridge

Robots and artificial intelligence explored in new festival

Alan Davies

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Group with helicopter

Essex and Herts Air Ambulance receives keys to the new airbase

Louise Dunderdale

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Hall being used for vaccination programme

Coronavirus

Covid jab success in North Uttlesford

Louise Dunderdale

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Visits to A&E in Essex have continued to fall, with the numbers attending the newly merged Mid and S

NHS

Broomfield hospital improvements to help patients

Louise Dunderdale

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Group of staff

NHS

App allows hospital patients to self-test and monitor their health

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