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NEWS:  03 Jul 2022
Average UK house price hits a new record, but there are signs of a slowdown

The average price of a UK property has hit a new record, but there are tentative signs of a slowdown revealed in the latest monthly figures from Nationwide. The average price now stands at £271,613 – representing a £26,000 rise in the past year, with...

NEWS:  03 Jul 2022
Average UK house price hits a new record, but there are signs of a slowdown

The average price of a UK property has hit a new record, but there are tentative signs of a slowdown revealed in the latest monthly figures from Nationwide. The average price now stands at £271,613 – representing a £26,000 rise in the past year, with...

NEWS:  28 Jul 2022
ESSEX DEVELOPER REMINDS CHILDREN WHERE NOT TO GO ‘SITE’ SEEING THIS SUMMER

Now that the school summer holidays are underway, Barratt and David Wilson Homes Eastern Counties is warning youngsters in Essex about the dangers of playing on building sites. New homes developments under construction may look like exciting places to explore, but the developer is warning...

NEWS:  18 Aug 2022
Royal Hospital School Pupils Achieve Top Results to Secure Future Pathways

Royal Hospital School (RHS) in Ipswich are delighted to announce that their Year 13 cohort have performed extremely well, with the majority securing their first choice of future pathway. The number of grades at A*/Distinction* to B grade (72.4%) is the highest the school has...

NEWS:  08 Jun 2021
Michael Landy’s Welcome to Essex exhibition heads to Colchester

This summer Firstsite will host a major exhibition of brand new works by Michael Landy CBE RA (b.1963), that explore the urban myths, received wisdoms and blatant stereotypes about the county of his birth, Essex. For his first major public gallery exhibition in the UK...

NEWS:  13 Sep 2022
London-based singer-songwriter Anna Bea releases new single ‘What If’

London-based singer-songwriter Anna Bea is releasing her new single ‘What if’, which is also the title track of a forthcoming EP, out in January. An upbeat pop song with a Latino touch, ‘What if’ is “a song about missed opportunities & wondering what would have...

NEWS:  07 Oct 2022
FCA fines Sigma Broking Limited £530,000 and bans and fines its former directors following market abuse reporting failures

Sigma Broking Limited (Sigma) has been fined £531,000 for failing to make reports crucial in fighting potential market abuse and three directors have been fined amounts totalling over £200,000, two of whom have also been prohibited. Between December 2014 and August 2016, Sigma did not...

NEWS:  19 Jul 2021
Self-care in the age of anxiety, psychologists offer advice as Covid-19 restrictions lift

Psychologists have encouraged people to find their own version of ‘self-care’ amid post-lockdown anxiety as lockdown restrictions in England lift today. In his keynote speech at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology’s annual conference this weekend, Professor Simon du Plock highlighted the importance...

NEWS:  26 Jul 2021
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance unveil unique Supporter Sculpture

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) unveiled a unique sculpture at its Earls Colne Airbase on Thursday 22nd July 2021. The installation “Supporting Us, Supporting You”, which will take pride of place at the airbase entrance, is the result of the charity’s sculpture Design Project,...

NEWS:  15 Sep 2023
Rough Trade announces partnership with mental health charity CALM

Independent music retailer Rough Trade has announced its partnership with Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) in support of suicide prevention and mental health. Founded in 2006, CALM is dedicated to ‘offering life-saving services, provoking national conversation and bringing people together to reject living miserably.’ CALM...