Braintree and Witham Times

HEALTH and safety watchdogs are to prosecute a mental health trust after a probe into hanging risks on inpatient wards.

RESIDENTS have been warned to be on their guard after scammers posing as workers from the NHS Test and Trace service made calls asking for payment for coronavirus tests.

A WARNING has been issued about crooks using a test and trace scam to con people out of cash.

ESSEX Cricket Club have apologised and admitted their trophy celebrations did not meet the club’s “inclusive values” after a Muslim player was sprayed with alcohol.

SOME pupils at a primary school who have been self-isolating will be allowed to return to class tomorrow, bosses have confirmed.

* North Primary School headteacher Alan Garnett gives an update in his latest diary.

POUNDLAND has come under fire for selling Ouija boards in UK stores.

POLICE are appealing for help as they search for a man who went missing last week.

WELL now we know.

OBJECTIONS have flooded in against plans to built 130 homes on the edge of a village.

SCHOOL students will be returning to virtual learning this week after they were forced to self-isolate due to a confirmed case of coronavirus.

Braintree Council used ASBO-style orders aimed at tackling nuisance behaviour on just two occasions last year, figures reveal.

THE countdown is ticking to the opening night of a new in demand Halstead restaurant which is set to open next week.

Health bosses are fearful of two Essex towns as coronavirus cases rise.

THE number of recorded coronavirus cases in Essex has jumped by 45 over the past 24 hours, official figures have revealed.

I can imagine how Victor Sawyer feels about the parking fine he received following a visit to the Primary Care Centre (Gazette Letters, September 17, “Anger at £70 fine for parking at clinic”).

A FORMER volunteer police officer claimed cash for shifts he never completed.

A FUNDRAISING page to save a town’s historic foot ferry which was “severely damaged” in gale-forced winds has been launched.

SCHOOL pupils and staff will be required to self-isolate following a confirmed case of coronavirus.