Secrets still clinging to the mud
	3:00am Fri 11 Jul 08
	THE mud of Benfleet Creek hides a tragic secret to which only one person has ever held the key. She is, or was, Violet Wright, universally known as Vicci Wright.
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	What’s in name? History
	6:05pm Thu 3 Jul 08
	WHAT do a hill overrun with rats, a herd of greedy she-goats, a bunch of cherry-plum trees, and the man who sounds like Brad Pitt's ancestor, have in common?
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	Hidden gem still holds court
	11:10pm Thu 26 Jun 08
	IF Howzat?! is the cry of the cricket pitch, Wherezat?! may be the most common response to the words Westcliff Lawn Tennis Club.

	Search for father led me to Oz
	5:59pm Fri 20 Jun 08
	THE rewards of researching your family history are many and varied, but seldom quite as spectacular, or as up-to-date, as the prize scooped by Kathy McCloud.
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	I served the Queen on Britannia
	4:04am Fri 13 Jun 08
	BETWEEN her launch in 1953 and her decommissioning in 1997, Royal Yacht Britannia sailed more than one million nautical miles. For 164,252 of those miles, one of her permanent crew members was Charles Saxby.

	What happened next?
	3:26pm Thu 5 Jun 08
	EVER watched a thriller series on TV, only to miss the final episode? Or found the last two pages missing from a whodunit mystery?

	The day 007 flew in to southend
	3:00pm Thu 5 Jun 08
	SADLY, Southend isn't the sort of place James Bond would frequent by choice.
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	An Ekco of Southend’s past
	11:00pm Thu 29 May 08
	IT was hard to miss the Ekco company of Southend. In the Fifties and Sixties, millions of people spent their evenings staring at TV screens with Ekco embossed across the front.

	arms found in alms
	9:46am Thu 22 May 08
	ROCHFORD'S almshouses were built so old people could enjoy a serene retirement. But the buildings were not always peaceful places, to judge by evidence embedded in their walls.

	When salvation was by the sea
	1:58pm Wed 14 May 08
	THE word Utopia is Greek for "no place". Sir Thomas More used it ironically when he wrote his book Utopia, about an ideal society, an earthly paradise without poverty, crime, social division or war.
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