Annika Reeder

Annika Louise Reeder was born September 28, 1979, Harlow, Essex, Great Britain) is a British gymnast. She is one of Great Britain’s most accomplished gymnasts in history. She was the first gymnast from Great Britain to compete in two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000. Just like her sister, Kirsty, she started gymnastics young – [...]

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Tina Cousins

Tina Cousins is from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, born April 20, 1971. She started off her career as a model, but is now known as a diva and great electric pop singer. She has had many UK top 20 hits both as a solo artist and with other artists and she is very popular in Australia, where [...]

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Sally Gunnell

Sally Gunnell, born Sally Jane Janet Gunnell, OBE, was born 29th July 1966 in Chigwell, Essex. She is a former Olympic champion in the 400m hurdles and has also worked as a television presenter, mainly for the BBC until January 2006.

Sally’s entrance to athetics started out with the Essex Ladies club as an accomplished long [...]

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Martina Cole

Martina Cole was born (1958) in Essex and brought up in Aveley. Her first novel, DANGEROUS LADY, was an instant bestseller and became a highly successful TV drama series, as was ‘The Jump’. As of 2006, she is the bestselling author of thirteen novels set in London’s crime underworld, and two of her recent paperbacks, [...]

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Caring daughter nominated for award

Nicolette Ester, 15, a caring teenager who helps look after her severely disabled father has been nominated for an unsung heroes award.(the Intercounty Young People of the Year in Essex contest).

From Harnham Drive , Great Notley, she cares for her father Alan, 45, who has suffered from multiple sclerosis since the age of 17 and [...]

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Haverhill – the Peoples' Quiz

Stephanie Bruce, from Haverhill, Essex, was the sixth person to qualify for the grand final of the People’s quiz, having battled long and hard to make it through the Brain Chain round. 2006

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Penny weds Rod

Penny Lancaster married the rock singer Rod Stewart on June 16, 2007.

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Jodie's search for a husband!

Essex girl Jodie Marsh, of Brentwood, visited Adventure Island for her new TV show, Totally Jodie Marsh, which follows her search for a husband.

She was with Matt Peacock, ex-boyfriend of Jodie’s arch enemy, Jordan.

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Making a mess in our neat gardens

Professor Germaine Greer spoke at the launch of the Festival of Essex Countryside at RHS Hyde Hall Gardens, Rettendon.

She told guests, including the Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Lord Petre: “Biodiversity is what will keep us alive. It is what will get us through global warming – if indeed we get through global warming.”

April 2007

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Helen Mirren visit

Jamie Huggins, 25, of Barncombe Close, Benfleet, is a former Appleton School pupil. He plays a medieval peasant in Helen Mirren’s latest film, ‘Inkheart’. As all the main actors had already shot their parts, he was stunned when she visited the set at Shepperton Studios, Middlesex. She had made the trip to see the rest [...]

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