Mr Ping's Chinese Restaurant Thorpe Bay, Essex

 

Mr Ping’s starter selection

 We have been to Mr Ping’s in Thorpe Bay, Essex many times now and always ask for no MSG and they are happy to omit it. Service is attentive and the atmosphere is comfortable and modern. This particular evening we had scallops to start which were fabulous (black bean and ginger and [...]

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Clarence Yard Bar and Bistro, Southend on Sea, Essex

Clarence Yard bar and bistro

Clarence Yard is a great meeting place, as well as an eating place. The day we had lunch there, we were in a rush, but it was such a relaxing place I was a little sad to leave. It is modern, yet rustic and all the chairs and tables are [...]

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Danielle Dax

Singer with the Lemon Kittens born in Southend-on [...]

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Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet was born in Billericay, Essex and brought up in Basildon, Essex. She was involved with various punk, rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the 1970′s/1980′s, including ‘The Vandals’ and ‘The Vicars’. She came to fame as half of the electro pop duo ‘Yazoo’ (with former Depeche Mode member [...]

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Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren DBE was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov on July 26, 1945, in Ilford, Essex, England. Helen’s grandfather Piotr Vasilievich Mironoff was a Tsarist (White Russian) aristocrat who was in London negotiating an arms deal for the World War I when the 1917 Russian Revolution stranded him there. His wife and son (Helen’s father) [...]

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On the great north run on Tyneside

Karen Hewitt
Good luck Tom Hewitt in the run and hello to all the theatre staff at BUPA Wellesley, Southend on Sea Essex

SARAH CURTIN
GOOD LUCK TO TRACY BEAVEN AND FRIENDS. COME ON THE ESSEX GIRLS AND GUYS.XXX

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Joyce Long meets David Beckham

Joyce Long, from Thundersley, Essex, is a fundraiser for Southend Hospital. Already, she has raised over £500.00. She rubbed shoulders with soccer superstar David Beckham as she was made an MBE by the Queen following years of charity work.

She said the she saw David Beckham, at the palace, who was being made an OBE, and [...]

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Tina tries to protect Westcliff seafront home

Pop star Tina Cousins was very annoyed at the Southend Council decision to demolish her former 1948 home on Westcliff seafront. She lived in the beautiful property 4 years previous, with her boyfriend, and stated that the seafront character is under threat due to the old fashioned buildings being torn down and replaced with modern [...]

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