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Essex
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In 2014, the sitcom actor spent a summer with the UK’s oldest weekly repertory company.
4 mins
Absent Friends 2024
June Spencer
Archers actress June Spencer is castaway by Kirsty Young.
22 Dec 2024,·45 mins
Jaywick Sands has been named England's most deprived neighbourhood for a fourth time.
2 mins
The Witham Rail Disaster
How three heroic Essex signalmen saved hundreds of lives when a train derailed.
02 Sep 2025,·8 mins
Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood grew up in an Essex village near Colchester.
A movement began last summer as a sign of protest and a show of patriotism.
