A LORRY careered into a home leaving a family homeless with a dad “cheating death” as he escaped injury. The vehicle rolled down Clifford Close, Laindon smashing into the home and causing a huge amount of damage at about noon on Wednesday. Images from the scene show the lorry stuck in the front of the home and damage left by the crash. While the home is now boarded up and a repair mission is set to take place to make it safe again.
Crash - the lorry in the front of the home The homeowner, a 30-year-old key worker, said he feels lucky to be alive. He said: “I had been out washing the car and had gone back inside and walked out the front door again to see that parked there.
TENDRING councillors have promised to repay the trust placed in them by voters and be a voice for residents across the district after being elected. Elections designed to determine the make-up of Essex County Council took place on Thursday with results filtering in overnight and on Friday afternoon. In total there were 75 seats up for grabs throughout the county, of which there were a total of eight Tendring divisions being contested. These were Brightlingsea, Frinton and Walton, Harwich, Clacton East, Clacton North, Clacton West, Tendring Rural East, and Tendring Rural West. Following the counts on Friday morning at the Clacton Leisure Centre, the district’s new Essex County Council representatives were officially revealed.
TENDRING councillors have promised to repay the trust placed in them by voters and be a voice for residents across the district after being elected. Elections designed to determine the make-up of Essex County Council took place on Thursday with results filtering in overnight and on Friday afternoon. In total there were 75 seats up for grabs throughout the county, of which there were a total of eight Tendring divisions being contested. These were Brightlingsea, Frinton and Walton, Harwich, Clacton East, Clacton North, Clacton West, Tendring Rural East, and Tendring Rural West. Following the counts on Friday morning at the Clacton Leisure Centre, the district’s new Essex County Council representatives were officially revealed.
DISGUSTING messages were scratched into cars in what police are treating as a racially-motivated hate crime. Essex Police received reports a dark grey Mercedes E Class and a blue BMW M2 had been damaged in St Osyth Road, Clacton. The victims had found insulting and offensive words had been physically scored into the two vehicles. The attack, which occurred overnight between April 6 and 7, is being considered to have been a racist hate crime. Andy Wood, Essex County Councillor for North Essex, has condemned those responsible for the very personal attack. “I am absolutely disgusted that something like this would happen in Clacton and in my ward,” he said,
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