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Colchester News November 21, 2024

'I suffer unimaginable pain every month from incurable disease - it's like barbed wire is cutting my insides'
by newsdesk@essexlive.news (Laura Fidler) on December 4, 2024 at 12:00 pm
She says the relatively common condition is "utterly soul destroying"
The Essex area one of the UK's kindest places where thousands arrive from overseas
by newsdesk@essexlive.news (Matt Lee) on December 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Almost 5,000 people arrived here from overseas
Historic Essex park to be transformed into magical festive light trail for Christmas
by newsdesk@essexlive.news (Jodie Bradley) on December 3, 2024 at 1:00 pm
It is a perfectly instagrammable Christmas location
Essex music producer who lost hearing from Covid found new life with medical earpiece
by newsdesk@essexlive.news (Ellis Whitehouse) on December 3, 2024 at 8:30 am
He suffered a variety of symptoms after getting the virus in 2021, but is now seeing improvements in his life
Colchester Zoo given early Christmas present with birth of adorable leopard cubs
by newsdesk@essexlive.news (Matt Lee) on December 2, 2024 at 10:44 am
The cubs were born just in time for Christmas

UK army chief warns world on brink of third nuclear age
by Tom Watling on December 4, 2024 at 11:56 pm
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin says Russia has increasingly issued wild nuclear threats since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Two wounded and suspected gunman dead in shooting at California elementary school
by Josh Marcus on December 4, 2024 at 11:55 pm
Police still working to identify gunman
Elon Musk wants to abolish daylight savings time, and it might actually be a good idea
by Io Dodds on December 4, 2024 at 11:55 pm
After 58 years of springing forward and falling back, evidence is mounting that it’s bad for our bodies, reports Io Dodds
Surveillance footage captures missing Maui woman Hannah Kobayashi buying bus ticket to Mexican border
by Michelle Del Rey on December 4, 2024 at 11:55 pm
Hannah Kobayashi, 30, has now been declared a ‘voluntary missing person’ by authorities
Man convicted of killing and dismembering 3 people in Texas is sentenced to death
by Via AP news wire on December 4, 2024 at 11:53 pm
A jury in Texas has sentenced a man for killing and dismembering three people whose bodies were found in a burning dumpster in Fort Worth in 2021

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