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Life-saving kit that residents hope they will never use

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

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Residents rally round to support life-saving fundraiser

Woman in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, with drip in her arm: Scharrowne Farmer was bitten by a cat

Pets

'Cat bite could have killed me': Many operations for rescuer

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Pug dog called Cheka at a Forget-Me-Not session for dementia support in Saffron Walden, Essex

Pets

How 4-legged volunteers help dementia support sessions

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Street view of the Saffron Community Link building in Market Street, Saffron Walden, Essex

Menopause Cafe comes to Saffron Walden for first time

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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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Cambridge Children's Hospital and Max Rowlandson, who fundraised for the unit in November

NHS

Green light for major new Cambridge Children's Hospital

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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

Saffron Walden receptionist Cindy Whife with the steps chart, a fundraiser for Brain Tumour Research

Fitness

Walden dental receptionist's Brain Tumour Research challenge is complete

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The Prodigy's frontman Keith Flint performing on stage

Music | Video

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

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Saffron Walden resident Richard Ansell wearing his Cancer Research UK t-shirt

Charity Fundraiser

Walden man backs cancer charity's 10,000 daily steps campaign

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

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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

Alice Bromell, a poet from Great Chesterford near Saffron Walden

Books

Saffron Walden recital to mark Alice Bromell's debut poetry collection

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Cindy Whife who will walk 10,000 steps every day in February, Saffron Walden, Essex

Addenbrooke's Hospital

Walden receptionist: From wobbly to walking 10,000 steps challenge

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St Clare Hospice’s nurses and nursing assistants standing around a reflective garden ornament, Hastingwood, Essex

8th birthday for St Clare's team that runs Hospice at Home

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St John's Ambulance volunteers in Essex

Charity News

St John's Ambulance launches volunteer appeal in Essex

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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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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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Schoolchildren wearing masks as they head into school.

Coronavirus

Essex parents fear return to remote lessons amid school staff shortage

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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