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Brightlingsea is an easy seaside escape less than half an hour’s drive from Colchester, offering a quiet day out in Essex.

Mersea Island in Colchester has been named among the best islands for a UK staycation by Conde Nast Traveller.

A controversial plan to redevelop a poultry unit in Shalford Green has been approved by councillors despite warnings over potential impacts.

Using a new league table from The Telegraph, we have crunched the data and revealed the top 10 best secondary schools across Essex.

A round-up of selected recent cases heard at North Essex Magistrates’ Court in both Chelmsford and Colchester.

Brightlingsea is an easy seaside escape less than half an hour’s drive from Colchester, offering a quiet day out in Essex.

Mersea Island in Colchester has been named among the best islands for a UK staycation by Conde Nast Traveller.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different -- and typically smaller -- reactor designs, only one of them has been fully licensed so far, and there are no plans to actually build any instances of that design. The executive order directed the Department of Energy to have three different reactor designs reach criticality in a bit over a year. On Thursday, a startup called Antares announced that a test reactor it had placed at the Idaho National Laboratory had reached criticality, making it the first new design to cross this threshold. Criticality means that the nuclear reactions inside the hardware had become self sustaining; it does not mean the reactor had started to generate power. [...] At the moment, Antares is just testing what it calls a Mark 0 reactor, which is not connected to the power-generation portion. Instead, it's being used to validate the company's modeling of the physical conditions in its reactors and generate safety data that can be used during licensing applications. Attempts to run the entire system, including electrical generation, are expected to happen next year. While the work was done at a Department of Energy Lab, the company is working with the Department of Defense's Project Pele program for developing a mobile nuclear reactor. The company has also received support from NASA.

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As we mark the 82nd anniversary of D-Day and the Allied landings on the beaches of Northern France, there will be an especially poignant moment at the British Normandy Memorial.

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Head, who died on Thursday at age 72, shared daughters Emily and Daisy, with animal welfare advocate and author Sarah Fisher.