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Thaxted Festival - Credit: Michael Bailie Essex Life's pick of the top events across the county this month, from the return of live music and theatre to film, book and food festivals  Words: Julian Read & Victoria Purcell 1. Jazz on a Summer Evening at RHS Hyde Hall June 26 The Rotary Club of Wickford has hosted this musical event for 32 years to help raise vital funds for St Luke’s Hospice in Basildon. As part of RHS Hyde Hall, Hyde Hall Live (June 25-27) celebrates opening up after lockdown. Enjoy the Sunshine Kings Jazz band in the open-air environment with your picnic. From 6.15p...

With the first Bank Holiday out of lockdown looming you might be wondering- what shall we do? After months in lockdown you might be itching to get out and make the most of the long weekend. So we have put together a list of some of the best things to do in the district: Braintree Village Fancy treating yourself to some bargains? Braintree Village has welcomed eleven new stores in the last year, including Armani, Timberland and Calvin Klein. Earlier this month the shopping outlet welcomed customers back with additional Covid safety measures. Great Notley Country Park Home to Esse...

In defence of England's most misunderstood county... Gillian Darley For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo I’ve spent a lot of time defending Essex. Too close to London? Too built-up? Too loud? Too dull? I’ll knock every negative to the ground. Being near London makes Essex easy to get to. Always did – for centuries, movers and shakers poured city money into country retreats, and Colchester oysters came the other way on roads built by the Romans.  The trip’s easier these days: all those trains running out of Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street, m...

Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 08.55 EST Tyne and Wear For millions of readers around the world, the image of the country between the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear was woven by Catherine Cookson, the region’s most prolific and popular author. Cookson’s was a landscape of collieries, shipyards, rumbling coal trains, sooty-faced kids and the instantly nostalgic tones of pithead silver bands playing Haydn. While fragments of her world remain – mainly in the doughty cheerfulness of the locals – over the past four decades, as heavy industry has receded, a more distant past has emerge...

Essex County Council is set to increase the cost of a wedding - Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The cost of booking weddings though Essex County Council (ECC) is set to rise as part of across-the-board increases in fees and charges levied by the council. The cost of booking a ceremony and reception during high season on a Friday and Saturday is set to increase this year from £4,880 to £5,700. A ceremony only wedding in high season will increase from £1,080 to £1,260. ECC has already started developing its visitor, weddings and conference facilities at Cressing Temple which now has an in-...