Essex Chronicle published Residents evacuated at Braintree Nursing Home after overnight...

"HEROIC staff" pulled residents from their beds in an overnight fire in a Braintree nursing home.Fire alarms sounded in the Braintree Nursing Home, Coggeshall Road, at 2.15am this morning (December 30) and seven members of on duty staff rushed upstairs to help 13 ill and disabled residents as the corridors filled with smoke.Home manager Fiona Kemp said: "The staff were very heroic. It is to their credit that they kept everyone calm. They are all safe and sound and they have now...

Nik_Nak12 published Nik Nak's Weekly Teaser — 30th December, 2015: Back In The...

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NHS Choir score Christmas number one

A choir of nurses, doctors and other NHS staff beat Justin Bieber and X Factor winner Louisa Johnson to the Christmas number one spot.

SamBalls published VIDEO: Watch how quickly a Christmas tree erupts into flames in...

A shocking new video of a burning Christmas has been released as people across the county prepare to put up their festive decorations this weekend. The video below, which shows that once alight a Christmas tree will become a fireball in a just a few seconds, was released by the Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.Christmas decorations are notoriously flammable, and it is hoped the video serves as a reminder to people to make fire safety a top priority at this time of year.Andre Turner, officer...

matt_harris published FA TROPHY: Ten man Chelmsford City progress after narrow win over...

Chelmsford City are through to the FA Trophy first round after beating Gloucester City 1-0 in their third qualifying round replay.Striker Michael Thalassitis scored his first for the Clarets on seven minutes before the visitors were reduced to ten men four minutes after the break when skipper Mark Hughes saw red for picking up a second yellow card.However, the Clarets held on and will return to Whaddon Road, where tenants Gloucester play, to face Vanarama National League side and landlords...

JoeSturdy published How to pick the perfect Christmas tree

There's an ongoing debate at the Chronicle about when to dust off the Christmas decorations and pick out a tree. Some of us have the lights twinkling from today (December 1, others wait until a week before to give their home a Christmas spruce-up.But there's one thing we all agree on: it's damned hard work finding the perfect tree.From firs that seemed green until the needles suddenly dropped off to pungent-smelling pines that made their way straight to the top, we've all got tree horror...