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- Essex County Council held its annual full council meeting at County Hall in Chelmsford
- It was the first full council meeting since Reform UK took control
- Council leader Peter Harris signed two executive decisions to scrap the £1.15 library reservation charge brought in by the previous administration and to declare a 'pothole emergency' in Essex
- Newly appointed chair Councillor Karen McIvor declared all county council meetings would begin with the Lord's Prayer and end with the national anthem
