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Twenty years after The Devil Wears Prada, the cast's faces have changed, but subtly, thanks to high-tech procedures and skilled maintenance.

Three pubs populate Great Bromley, all with incredible menus and commendable histories: The Cross Inn, The Courthouse and The Snooty Fox.

Here is every National Trust site in Essex ranked according to reviews on Tripadvisor.

A sprawling six-bedroom home in a picturesque village with a large garden is on the market for offers over £1,200,000.

Witham's much-loved River Walk is getting a thrilling new attraction as a series of wooden sculptures is installed along the popular green route.

Three pubs populate Great Bromley, all with incredible menus and commendable histories: The Cross Inn, The Courthouse and The Snooty Fox.

Here is every National Trust site in Essex ranked according to reviews on Tripadvisor.

A sprawling six-bedroom home in a picturesque village with a large garden is on the market for offers over £1,200,000.

A team of four women from Maldon have completed a gruelling historic first Hyrox event, raising money and awareness for Crohn’s disease and breast cancer.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Wood heating is reintroducing lead into the air of local communities and homes, a systematic investigation by academics has found. Overwhelming evidence of lead's neurotoxicity meant the metal was banned as an additive in petrol more than 25 years ago. The research by academics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst began by analysing samples of particle pollution from five suburban and rural towns in the north-east US. They looked for tiny particles of potassium that are given off when wood is burned and also particles containing lead. Samples from seven winters revealed associations between potassium and lead. When there were more wood burning particles in a daily sample, there was more lead in the air, with clear straight-line relationships in four of the five towns. The project was extended to 22 other towns across the US. The relationships between lead and potassium varied from place to place, being strongest in the Rocky Mountains. By factoring in the effects of temperature, moderate to strong associations in their analysis strengthened the conclusion that the extra lead came from wood burning. The lead concentrations were less than the US legal limits, but any exposure to the metal is harmful. [...] Although less than legal limits, lead particles are routinely measured in UK cities in winter when people are also burning wood. This is normally attributed to waste wood covered with old lead paint, but the Umass Amherst study suggests the metal is coming from the wood itself. This means that any wood burning could increase exposure in neighborhoods and at home. Tricia Henegan, a PhD student at Umass Amherst and the first author on the research, said: "The most logical answer [to the question of how lead ends up in wood] is that it comes from uptake in the soil, probably riding along with the nutrients and water that trees need. Once in the tree, it deposits in the tree's tissues and remains until that tree is burned." Other research has found that it can then become part of the smoke. "The use of wood as an energy source is a relic of the past, one that should not be relived if given a choice. Although wood fuel use can feel nostalgic, it does have negative consequences on air quality, and therefore public health."

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TG Jones, the chain created after private equity firm Modella bought WH Smith's high street business last year, currently operates 180 Post Office branches.

The group, from Italy , had set off on a diving expedition on Thursday morning to explore the Vaavu atoll but never resurfaced.

Late one Friday afternoon in March last year, the curtain in the 'witness room' of South Carolina's state execution chamber opened to reveal convicted murderer Brad Sigmon strapped to a chair.

Officers were sent on Friday to Whitechapel Road in Tower Hamlets after an online video circulated of the suspect making threats and slurs.

Venezuela Fury has said she and fiancé Noah Price do not any plans to start a family, as the young couple prepare to tie the knot on Saturday. 

In a stark contrast to them being pictured looking distracted at their phones in Venice earlier this week, the couple only had eyes for each other as they travelled on the luxurious train to Paris.

More than 16 years have passed since Malcolm McLaren's death. But, somehow, the impresario of punk, fashion designer, artist and music producer is still causing chaos.

The British actress, 44, returned to work with her glamorous chat show appearance just three weeks after welcoming the tot with boyfriend Oli Green, 29.

A week after the local election results verified just how much it is despised by the electorate, the Government has ceased to be a functioning entity.