Maddi Thurgood, the teenager whose family is in a race against time to fund research to beat her wasting disease, is now hoping to have surgery to help her to walk.

A former mayor of Dunmow, who once managed a rubber plant in Malaysia and arranged for the town to be twinned with the capital of a pacific ocean island, has died, aged 79.

Local care home residents, community groups and members of the public have worked together to knit and crochet nearly 8000 poppies in five months, which now deck Dunmow’s town centre.

The new BBC Two drama, Trust, about the kidnap of John Paul Getty III, hitting British TV screens tomorrow, was partly filmed at Audley End House in Saffron Walden last year.

More than £3,000 was raised for a ‘miracle child’ at a High Easter fun day.

This is a sweet play about a poignant, true story. The performances are virtuoso from actors who are masters of their craft.

The fourth, full length feature from English director Andrew Haigh, Lean on Pete tells the story of 15-year-old Charley as he forms an unlikely friendship with a fading race horse.

This third film from British writer/director Martin Mcdonagh stars Frances McDormand in the lead role of Mildred Hayes a grieving mother coming to terms with the brutal murder of her daughter. She hires three billboards outside her home town of Ebbing, to advertise the fact the local police department has yet to catch the killer.