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Prince Philip with Trinity House's Jeremy De Halpert in Harwich in 2004 PRINCE Philip was a frequent visitor to north Essex both as escort to the Queen and in his own right Buckingham Palace announced Prince Philip’s death just after midday on Friday issuing a statement about how the royal family will join with people across the globe “mourning his loss”. The Duke of Edinburgh, 99, was master of Trinity House from 1969 and 2011 and kept a keen interest in its work. He visited Harwich in 2004 to lay the first stone for the lighthouse authority’s £10 million development in Geor...

Prince Philip with Trinity House's Jeremy De Halpert in Harwich in 2004 PRINCE Philip was a frequent visitor to north Essex both as escort to the Queen and in his own right Buckingham Palace announced Prince Philip’s death just after midday on Friday issuing a statement about how the royal family will join with people across the globe “mourning his loss”. The Duke of Edinburgh, 99, was master of Trinity House from 1969 and 2011 and kept a keen interest in its work. He visited Harwich in 2004 to lay the first stone for the lighthouse authority’s £10 million development in Geor...

ONE of the highlights of the north Essex calendar has been given the green light this year, much to the delight of a town councillor. The Tour de Tendring is usually held around May and has raised vital funds for charities over its 28 year history. It was cancelled last year due to covid. But Tendring Council has now confirmed the event will go ahead this year but will be postponed until later due to covid restrictions. The race offers six, 20 or 60-mile distances and usually sets off from the swimming pool in Dovercourt before the routes set out across the Tendring countryside.

The iron law of Ulster Unionist politics is that sectarian solidarity ultimately trumps everything else. So, in accordance with that commandment, after delaying for two whole days, the Ulster Unionists joined all the other unionist parties in demanding the resignation of Simon Byrne, the Chief Constable of the PSNI. In doing so, Sinn Fein must have given a huge sigh of relief, as the unionist parties had wrongly focussed their collective ire not on Sinn Fein's outrageous misbehaviour at the Bobby Storey funeral, but at the Chief Constable. It is a classic case of firing at the wrong target. I...

ONE of the highlights of the north Essex calendar has been given the green light this year, much to the delight of a town councillor. The Tour de Tendring is usually held around May and has raised vital funds for charities over its 28 year history. It was cancelled last year due to covid. But Tendring Council has now confirmed the event will go ahead this year but will be postponed until later due to covid restrictions. The race offers six, 20 or 60-mile distances and usually sets off from the swimming pool in Dovercourt before the routes set out across the Tendring countryside.