Just seen a comment on FB from a chap in #Essex whose dad is in the #RNLI - his dad has been told by the #security team *not* to wear uniform off duty for his own safety due to the level of backlash against RNLI helping #migrants (from people who have 0 idea of how #maritime operations work, and that the whole concept of that service is to retrieve humans (and sometimes other creatures) who have ended up in the sea / tidal waterway but didn't intend to be there)..
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Sir Rod Stewart is right - I was in South #Essex myself a week ago, having turned off the #A12 on a fruitless search for a loo (I later found one at #Chelmsford), and regularly found myself having to drive almost in the crown of the road to avoid #potholes , and this is in a modest #VW #Polo (stock springs, not lowered or anything like that) - not a #Ferrari (I dread to think how much that would cost if you scraped it, even a millionaire may baulk at the garage bill)
BBC NewsRod Stewart may sell sports cars over Essex pothole woesThe singer says his five beloved cars might have to go as the roads are too bad for him to drive them.
I got some of the shopping centre names wrong as I rarely go into South #Essex and have not been to #Basildon since 1990 (and was ejected from the Eastgate shopping centre by security for wearing a hoodie and hanging around with local youths I'd befriended) - but I seem to spend a fair bit of time in the area recently (including long drives along the #A12 as its the only route out of this part of #EastAnglia to SE England)
PSA: Secure your #doggo safely in the #car when you are driving! One old man in #Essex is now dead, and a second going to #prison for first time in life at age *82* (until then never had a criminal record nor any motoring offences) as he didn't do this and knocked down a #motorcyclist trying to get the #dog back under control
BBC NewsArdleigh crash driver Norman McAndrew jailed for killing bikerA court hears how Norman McAndrew, 82, swerved across the road when the pet jumped up at him.
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I'm more intrigued as to why the middle aged lady drives from #Leigh on Sea to #Braintree just to get #petrol - she would use more fuel than she saves doing this and would have to sit in #A12 traffic during busy times (maybe she has friends or family there?)
Also she's too young to have been driving around the time when #attendedservice was commonplace (it had already stopped in most areas by the 1970s)
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-petrol-station-thats-cheap-10004700
Essex Live · Essex petrol station that's so cheap drivers come from 30 miles away to fill upQueues form outside the station and staff even help customers fill up their cars
#Colchester in #Essex is apparently 9th most surveilled area in the UK, according to counts of #Council #CCTV camera schemes..
I guess this is what comes of ignoring the long term effects of #ToxicMasculinity for 30 years (and also being a town with an active #military #barracks) - nearly 20 years ago a young lass told me how the city streets were a warzone at night due to angry men on 'roids and #cocaine
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24977056.colchester-revealed-9th-surveilled-area-uk/
Gazette · Colchester revealed as 9th most surveilled area in the UK
Two men in #Essex #nicked and sent to #jail for #keyless #car #theft of £1,3 *million* of high value vehicles across the county (several SUVs and a modified #FordFiesta ) as well as running a #chopshop in #WalthamAbbey - the worst part of this is looking at the pictures of their lockup, they could easily have made an honest living in the motor trade (I wonder if they had been stalking car enthusiasts via #socialmedia ?)
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/armed-police-surrounded-lockup-closed-10000944
Essex Live · Armed police surrounded lockup as they closed in on £1.3m car theft duoThe men stole keyless cars using one particular method
18 years ago today: At the Fat Surfer All Dayer (no 6) in Grays with the cream of Essex's mid-2000 punk scene: Ask Sophie, Punch Judy, Fahrenheit 451, Fashoda Crisis, Late Night Episode, 9 Days Down, The Jays and Kuru Smile #indie #punk #postpunk #alternative #indiemusic #alternativemusic #resurrection #communityradio #radio #podcast #essex #england
The main impact of the #farmers #protests to me is when I encounter a #tractor on #A14 / #A12 driving at normal speed (which is by necessity and law much slower than a motor car), I am now suspicious even when 90% of the time its very likely to be on the road for genuine #farming purposes around #Suffolk and #Essex (before that I just accepted them as part of the traffic, given I live and work in a semi rural area)
Free #breakfast and #childcare for #school #children in parts of #Essex and #London as part of a trial from the new government..
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/full-list-essex-schools-free-9969820
Essex Live · Full list of Essex schools where free breakfast and childcare is being offeredFind out if your school is included in the trial
Its good they are setting this up for the teens and their parents, but why the fuck did we import the #highschool #prom into this country in the first place? It also imports the dysfunctional culture wars of USA #highSchools on top of our own social problems (such as youth seeing #TOWIE and #LoveIsland folk as role models)
https://www.essexlive.news/whats-on/shopping/pop-up-store-open-brentwood-9968365
Essex Live · Pop-up store to open in Essex providing free prom clothesThe shop is taking donations of prom dresses and suits
It looks like the #celeb couple were actually in the house, activated the panic button/called nines (old bill were on scene within 8 minutes which is not too bad a response) so the #burglars fled empty handed - but it still doesn't seem a good idea to constantly post pics of your £3,5 *million* dream house on #Instagram - sooner or later you *will* slip up and put up a picture that makes it easy to locate, and #Essex is divided by #inequality
Went for a little bike ride this afternoon, and found myself at the Great Holland Pits nature reserve. It's a lovely bit of land with beautiful paths leading up and down, hither and dither. So many birds chirping and screeching, and things in the water and brambles.
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Not you. The person who proudly boasted the xe was the pencil.
You do raise the interesting question of the local rate of Keiths in South Woodham Ferrers, though. Higher or lower than the national mean. These are the important things that the ONS should be telling us, not spending thousands of pounds to get a computer to tell us the news that it has worked out that Wolverhampton is a built up area.
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By the 21st century, the PR people had mastered that there Nike stereo, improving the quality of the advertising immensely, as you can tell.
Amusing reminiscence from the erstwhile Essex County Council staff member in the comments.
The really clever thing about this video is not that they've lost the film master and had to digitize from tape, but how they have re-created on YouTube the true 1980s telly experience of the set only having one speaker, to the side of the screen.
It just needs some proper mains hum.
Spot the person in the comments section who recognized xyrself, by the way.
The whole inner portion of the city of #Colchester in #Essex was locked off by #Police with a dispersal order (officers can order anyone to leave immediately) following a rise in #violence #CriminalDamage and #AntiSocialBehaviour (presumably a bit more than an average weekend in the area, for such measures to be taken)
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/night-antisocial-behaviour-colchester-ends-9930824
Essex Live · Night of 'antisocial behaviour' in Essex city ends in police crackdownPolice said incidents would 'not be tolerated'
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There have been *that* many #crashes in #Essex in last few weeks alone my own relatives (who live in SE England) were worried about my safety #driving back through the area after the lunar new year celebration (even though most of the #collisions are in towns/cities rather than on the #A12 highway (although there have been incidents there too). I've seen comments elsewhere (including from #EmergencyServices workers) that bad/reckless driving can be a warning sign of #SocialBreakdown