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Kirsten Robertson feature for September 6 (World Foodbank Day) with Epping Forest Foodbank

Donations running dry: the real story from inside Britain's foodbanks

Channel: UK UK September 6, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson
The VW ID Buzz electric vehicle in yellow

I discovered the secret to an (almost) stress-free electric car road trip

Channel: Travel Travel September 2, 2024 By Claie Wilson
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Dramatic footage shows couple rescued during storm on 40ft yacht

Channel: UK UK August 30, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
People leaving Reading Festival in sunny weather in the UK bank holiday

Met Office has say on 'heatwave that will make UK hotter than Spain'

Channel: UK UK August 27, 2024 By Jen Mills
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Manhunt for serial 'dine and dash couple' on the run after dodging bail

Channel: UK UK August 25, 2024 By Danny Rigg
Healthcare Worker Has been Arrested In Probe Of Baby Deaths At The Countess Of Chester Hospital

Footballer convicted after violent assault left toddler with brain damage

Channel: Football Football August 22, 2024 By James Goldman

Mum killed by her own dog just weeks after her daughter's sudden death

Channel: UK UK August 15, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
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Security guards watch on as machete-wielding youths fight at seaside town theme park

Channel: UK UK October 14, 2024 By Katie Boyden
Sean Harper and his wife Shiza Harper outside Chelmsford Crown Court where they are on trial alongside Mark Christopher and Matthew Martin, charged with conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. The court was previously told that the group of four defendants had gone to the coroner's court in Chelmsford on April 20 2023 in search of Essex senior coroner, Lincoln Brookes. Picture date: Friday July 19, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Coroner. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

'Cult' members guilty of trying to kidnap coroner for 'performing necromancy'

Channel: UK UK July 31, 2024 By Katie Boyden

'Doomsday shipwreck' stuffed with explosives could unleash a Thames tsunami

Channel: UK UK September 27, 2024 By Tom Sanders

Man charged after grandmother was mauled to death by two XL Bullies

Channel: UK UK July 25, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

'Cult tried to kidnap coroner from court for performing necromancy'

Channel: UK UK July 18, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
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'Illegal XL bully puppy farm' with 13 dogs in home with children raided

Channel: UK UK July 13, 2024 By Josh Milton
Play Video a fire raging at the Lakeside Shopping Centre this afternoon.

Iconic shopping centre hit by fire

Channel: UK UK July 8, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

Nigel Farage heckled and called 'racist' in first speech as Reform UK MP

Channel: Politics Politics July 5, 2024 By Ben Ashton
Lorry driver who killed four minibus passengers in M25 crash jailed for just three years

Lorry driver who killed four minibus passengers in M25 crash jailed for just three years

Channel: UK UK July 4, 2024 By Lucy Skoulding

Woman, 36, admits murdering her own parents four years before they were found

Channel: UK UK July 4, 2024 By Katie Boyden
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Mark Wright fans staggered by how tiny his lawnmower is for 'massive' mansion garden

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz June 23, 2024 By Rebecca Sayce
Aerial View of Chelmsford suburbs.

City with ‘no character’ named one of the best value commuter spots in the UK

Channel: Property Property June 19, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce
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Nigel Farage gets milkshaked by 'OnlyFans model' one day into campaign

Channel: UK UK June 5, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen