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  • Expenses case peer must face court

    FORMER Essex County Council leader Lord Hanningfield will stand trial accused of fiddling his expenses, a judge has ruled. Mr Justice Saunders rejected arguments by Lord Hanningfield and three ex-Labour MPs – David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine

  • Leisure card is on the cards!

    CHELMSFORD Council has moved a step closer to introducing a leisure card scheme. Councillors at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday agreed to give a further £77,000 to the project to enable it to be in operation early next year. Residents are being asked

  • My Fair Lady at the Civic

    IT will be lovely. That is what Springers is hoping people will think when they see its production of My Fair Lady at the Chelmsford Civic Theatre. The amateur group will be staging a production of the timeless musical from June 15 to June 19. It will

  • Bands set for charity show

    SIX Chelmsford bands will be performing a charity concert this weekend (June 12). The mini rock festival takes place at Galleywood Memorial Hall and all funds raised will go to the Daylove school for street children in Nairobi. The bands taking part

  • Sobers visits cricket clubs

    ONE of the world’s greatest cricketers dropped into Chelmsford. West Indian all-rounder Sir Garry Sobers – famous for being the first to hit six sixes in one over – visited Springfield Cricket Club, pictured, on Thursday last week to meet members of