Leigh on Sea News

Legal Eagle Q & A: Right's on name changing


When seperations take place, what right's are there to children's name changing?

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Jimmy Carr: The Best of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits Tour

Phew - new date added!

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Picture of the week - 16th February 2018

Does it get any better than this? 

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Foodie Rich European Tour... The Final Instalment

Pizza you’ve beaten me, I’ve really been put through the ring. I wrote last week, and I quote ‘Lou and I ate pizza every day; yeah that’s right EVERY DAY, and sometimes more than one!’

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Legal Eagle Q & A: Is a Valentines Day gift for keeps?

The most romantic day of the year is nearly upon us, but can the romance, be undone?

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Fatal hit and run driver gets 5 years

Driver who fled scene receives prison sentence

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HisotricaLeigh: Jumping the Shotgun!

Was it bigamy in Leigh in the 1700's? 

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Kids Review: 'Coco'

A little something to do this half term...

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Competition: Win tickets to Fat Friends The Musical

Win tickets to the musical of hit TV show Fat Friends

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Fat Friends The Musical

The hit TV show Fat Friends from award-winning national treasure Kay Mellor (creator of Girlfriends, Love, Lies & Records, Band of Gold, The Syndicate and In The Club) has burst onto the stage in a brand-new musical, with original music by Nick Lloyd Webber. 

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Pop-up Essex Writers House

For the whole of March, Chalkwell Hall in our dear Chalkwell Park is being turned into a pop-up Essex Writers House thanks to Metal Culture and a partnership with Essex Book Festival.  

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Competition: Win tickets to Peppa Pigs Adventure at The Cliffs Pavilion

Peppa Pig and friends are back in the brand new live show Peppa Pig’s Adventure and you lucky lot can win a family ticket!

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Foodie Rich European Tour Part 2

Here it is! Part two of my European tour! Lou and I are in Italy, Rome to be precise, and what a chic place it is. I’m sure we all have that preconception of Italians; whatever the occasion they just look extremely stylish. Gents wearing razor sharp suits, ladies in glamorous outfits, smart shoes, oh and always wearing sunglasses.

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HistoricaLeigh - The Coliseum of Leigh (not Rome)

The Coliseum stood (and still to a certain degree stands) where today is Strangeways hairdressers and flats above in Elm Road. 

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Votes for Women in Leigh on sea!

On 6 February 2018 it will be exactly 100 years since some women were granted the right to vote in the UK for the first time.

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Enough is Enough

For those of you that aren’t aware our lovely, bubbly, confident and ever so ditzy Lisa has been knocked for six. 

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Foodie Rich European Tour - Part 1

Those regulars to Leigh-on-sea.com may remember last year we jetted off half way round the world to visit Aussie friends; the year before that we were in India.  So, whilst most others were dragging themselves back to work, Lou and I were sunning it up and sipping cocktails by the pool.

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Sunset Boulevard : Theatre Review

Well, I have to admit, I am still tingling after last night’s performance of the Sunset Boulevard at Southend Cliffs Pavilion. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award®-winning show is darkly intense and completely mesmerising, thanks to its incredible cast and staging. 

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Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

A well-established quiz night in London, Manchester and Brighton, and they came to little old Southend on Sea last weekend.

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Topping the tables for new GCSE measures

Statistics published yesterday by the Department for Education (DfE) confirmed Southend-on-Sea as an overall area performed well above the national* average under the Government’s new GCSE measures, coming 16th out of 151 local authority areas for the new Attainment 8 measure, and 13th for students achieving Grade 5 or above in English and maths combined (54.1% compared to 42.6% nationally).   

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