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Taylor Wimpey is preparing to begin work at the former Cantel Medical Ltd site in Shoeburyness.

Ricky, eight, pleads with the King to help save trees threatened by a housing development.

RESIDENTS are furious with plans to fell more than 60 mature trees to make way for a 70-home development in Shoebury.

By Stephen Ayers A haystack in Lammas Meadow at Walthamstow Marshes in July 2013. Credit: Community Haystacks and Kathrin Bohm. From ancient times until the early 20th Century, local people had traditional rights to farm most of the open expanse of fertile peaty marshland bordering the River Lea. In spring and the first half of summer, the marshes were farmed as hay or corn meadows by local residents, rich or poor, for themselves or fo...