ByDavid Stacy
Disabled teenager Andrew Crowe has achieved his ambition of passing his driving test at the first attempt in a specially adapted car. Andrew, 19, of Horse and Groom Lane, was paralysed from the neck down following an accident four years ago, but thanks to his courage and determination plus the love and support of family…
ByDavid Stacy
Fox hunting supporters turned out in force on the Common for the Boxing Day Meet of the Essex Farmers’ and Union Hunt. A handful of anti-hunt protestors were on the scene but there were no clashes. The hunt and its followers met by the Horse and Groom around 10am but proceedings were delayed because of…
ByDavid Stacy
Dawn Jacobs of Cannon Leys has been named Midwife of the year by Practical Parenting magazine after saving a mother from a rare life-threatening birth complication. Dawn was attending Maxine Geurts during the birth of her fourth baby at St John’s Hospital. Maxine collapsed with a condition known as Amniotic Fluid Embolism and it was…