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Wivenhoe near Colchester is praised by The Telegraph as an Essex hidden gem, with a historic waterfront, wildlife, River Colne and direct London rail links.

Ahead of Hospice Care Week 2026, the Gazette visited St Helena Hospice. Opened in 1985, the hospice supports people with life-limiting illnesses across Colchester and the surrounding area, at home and in its inpatient unit.

The Meffs, Essex punk-rock duo Lily Hopkins and Lewis Copsey, celebrate as new album Business reaches number one on the UK Independent Album Breakers Chart.

The Great British Schools Guide identified the 10 hardest-to-access primary schools in the county.

Essex Recovery Trust supports 2,000 people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, tackling loneliness and stigma through community, training and events.

Wivenhoe near Colchester is praised by The Telegraph as an Essex hidden gem, with a historic waterfront, wildlife, River Colne and direct London rail links.

Ahead of Hospice Care Week 2026, the Gazette visited St Helena Hospice. Opened in 1985, the hospice supports people with life-limiting illnesses across Colchester and the surrounding area, at home and in its inpatient unit.

The Meffs, Essex punk-rock duo Lily Hopkins and Lewis Copsey, celebrate as new album Business reaches number one on the UK Independent Album Breakers Chart.

The Great British Schools Guide identified the 10 hardest-to-access primary schools in the county.

It's the bi-annual Beckham pilgrimage to Paris to cheer on Posh as she shows off her new clothing collection at the city's fashion week.

The late actress kept the sentimental piece of jewelry after the called-off engagement to Klitschko, now 50, in 2018.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The state of New Mexico asked a judge on Thursday to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data on Facebook in a case that came out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Attorneys for New Mexico made the request at a hearing in a lawsuit brought following revelations that the British political consulting firm, which worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, harvested personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app without their consent. The jury returned its verdict on September 25. Judge Francis Mathew, who oversaw the trial in Santa Fe, will decide how much Meta must pay in financial penalties. [...] State law allows the judge to decide how much to fine Meta per violation, up to $5,000. At the hearing on Thursday, Randi McGinn, a lawyer for New Mexico, said applying the full $5,000 penalty to the number of violations would create too large of a penalty under the US Constitution's protections on due process. But the judge should order a significant payment that will impact the company, McGinn said. "This court should speak to Meta in the only language it understands, which is money, and the value of its stock price," McGinn said. She said $35 billion to $40 billion, which represents about 20% of the possible penalties that could be awarded under state law from the verdict, would impact the stock price while complying with Meta's right to due process under the Constitution. At the hearing on Thursday, Matt Nicholson, a lawyer for Meta, called the state's request an "astronomical penalty that would obviously violate a host of constitutional provisions." In court filings, Meta urged Mathew to cap the penalties at $3.45 billion. The jury may have said it found Meta's statements misleading, but the evidence shows that Meta does not sell user data and New Mexico did not prove that any consumer had actually been misled, the company said in court filings. The judge said he expected to issue a ruling later this month.

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Zelensky said that according to intelligence intercepted by Kyiv, the Russian president had eliminated the restrictions that governed earlier air campaigns.

Dr Mark Fowler, 69, who oversaw the botched execution of murderer and accused Satanist Christa Pike in Tennessee was spotted for the first time at his home on Thursday.

In central London, can a walk-in-only, word-of-mouth hit Cantonese live up to the hype?

It's 2020 and I'm sat at a hospice window. Behind it, paralysed due to terminal brain cancer is my wife Helen. My phone rings: 'Your address has just been posted on Twitter by a City fan, making threats.'

A simple spin on a classic Italian baked pasta

Several Green councils in London have already vowed to stop cooperating with Home Office officials launching immigration raids across the capital.

Harrison Glynne Jones was just steps away from the front door of his home when he was hit by a white Ford Transit Tipper in Llanfairfechan, Conwy county, north Wales, on Thursday afternoon.