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A man entered Woolpack News, in Wool Pack, and shut the door behind him before pulling out a knife. He threatened a woman by Piers Meyler “This latter omission is a shame, as inside and demanded money this would have enabled us to retain from the till then left the store Local democracy reporter three-quarters of the business rates col- with a three-figure sum of lected locally and then decide our- cash and cigarettes. AN “extra” £28million promised selves, in Essex instead of in Whitehall, He is described as white, 5ft to Essex County Council will come where and how that money should be 10ins, of medium build and entirely from local taxpayers, govern- spent. was wearing a black hooded ment figures suggest. “There are still significant challenges jumper, black bottoms and The council has also bemoaned the ahead. Austerity might be ending, but black trainers. He had a black decision from the Government not its effects remain with us. scarf covering his face. to include it as a business rate pilot “We will need to make some tough Anyone with information is scheme – which would have allowed choices, but the right choices for the asked to call Southend CID it to keep 75 per cent of business rates. long-term good. on 101, quoting crime refer- A funding package for councils “So we will carry on doing the right ence 42/190557/18, or you can unveiled last week for 2019/20 sees thing – building an Essex for the future, report information online by councils share an extra £1.3billion. changing how we work to fit with peo- visiting www.essex.police.uk/ Communities secretary James ple’s lives. do-it-online. Brokenshire said the settlement “Providing services today in the way Alternatively call would see the “core spending power” that we provided them 20 years ago Crimestoppers anonymously of councils across England increase won’t work; we live in a digital world on 0800 555 111. from £45.1bn in 2018/19 to £46.4bn where we work differently, bank dif- in 2019/20. ferently, shop differently – we need l POLICE Figures released as part of the to embrace that, so we offer services would like to announcement showed Essex’s “core which are relevant to how people live talk to this spending power” would increase from DISAPPOINTED: Cllr David Finch FIGURES: James Brokenshire today. man in con- £901.8m to £930.2m – a boost of and vulnerable adults, recycling, and years of funding cuts. “There is also the ever-present need to nection with £28.4m. education. Councillor David Finch, leader of continue to look after our most vulnera- an incident Close inspection of the data suggests, Core services are those that a council Essex County Council, said: “The ble; ours is an ever-ageing, ever-grow- where a dog however, that all of that money will be must, by law, provide. headlines from the finance settlement ing population with ever-more complex walker was coming from local taxpayers, and not Mr Brokenshire’s figures assume for Essex make for disappointing read- needs. But we are as committed to attacked in Southend. the Treasury. Essex will raise £672.6m in council ing – there are no changes or improve- protecting Essex’s vulnerable children A woman was outside a shop Core spending power is worked out tax in 2019/20 compared to £635.6m in ments to what we were expecting, there and older people as ever. in Southchurch Avenue when by adding together money that councils 2018/19 – an increase of £37m. were few surprises other than the small “These are challenges which we need a man approached her and receive from the government and money It means Essex will have £8.6m less slice of a national business rates sur- to face and overcome as we finalise our got into an argument with her they raise locally through council tax. in other funding in 2019/20 than it had plus, and there is no opportunity for budget for the coming financial year. about her dog at 2.40pm on It represents all the cash that coun- in 2018/19. Essex to benefit from becoming one of “I know that we will. Because we Saturday, December 22. cils have to provide all core services Councils have been warning for years the business rate pilot schemes which have the track record of having done so The man claimed the dog, – including social care for children that they are struggling to cope with the Secretary of State announced. over the past decade.” described as a Jack Russell, had scared a young child that was with him. Police appeal after man stabbed in targeted attack He then attacked the woman, punching her a number of times in the head. POLICE are appealing for witnesses 7.45pm when three men got out of a workers within the shop who rang 999. dashcam footage should call Southend Anyone with information is after a man was stabbed in Leigh-on- black vehicle wearing balaclavas and The victim remains in hospital in a CID on 101, quoting crime reference asked to call Southend police Sea on Saturday, December 29. punched him. serious but stable condition. 42/191137/18, or report information station on 101, quoting crime The victim, aged in his 30s, was One of the men then stabbed him in Police are treating it as a targeted by visiting www.essex.police.uk/do-it- reference 42/187558/18, or walking towards the Co-op store the chest before they drove away. attack. online. 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Sunday to Friday 8am-11pm, Malinois, has served with Essex Police Saturday 8am-9pm since March but was retired from duty after sustaining life-changing injuries. Tides Baloo and her handler, PC Ross Ashcroft, were deployed to a theft of a motor vehicle incident in October where Baloo was struck by a vehicle after cars made off from the scene. Baloo was left with a broken pelvis and a badly broken leg which needed emergency surgery. An investigation is ongoing. The force said: “We have been High tide at Southend Pier (GMT): overwhelmed with the response we’ve Thu: 1027 5.30 2300 5.30 had to rehome PD Baloo. We have LOYAL SERVANT: Fri: 1119 5.40 2346 5.40 received hundreds of requests to give Police dog Baloo had Baloo a loving home and the team will to retire due to injury Sat: 1204 5.50 spend the next few days working to Sun: 0025 5.50 1244 5.60 find her a suitable home. role, he will be unable to keep Baloo While Baloo’s career has been short, Mon: 0100 5.50 1322 5.60 “Thank you to everyone for your and with a heavy heart, he has been she has made a big difference to the Tue: 0134 5.60 1359 5.60 support and we will keep you updated looking for a loving home for her. residents of Essex, helping to bring Wed: 0207 5.50 1435 5.50 when Baloo is settled into her new Baloo is a playful dog who loves justice to those attempting to escape home. Please do not send any more nothing more than a cuddle. She is also police and to find missing people in High tide at Tilbury: emails to our team, we will make great with children and other dogs. their hour of need. Thu: 1059 5.90 2331 6.00 further appeals to rehome Baloo if PC Ashcroft said: “She has been a She sniffed out two violent suspects Fri: 1151 6.10 needed.” brilliant dog both at work and at home. trying to hide from officers after they Baloo had to have one of her front “As confident as she was at work, she attacked a woman with a weapon. Sat: 0017 6.10 1237 6.20 legs amputated and will not be able to was an absolute softie when taken out She has also tracked suspects for long Sun: 0057 6.20 1318 6.20 continue her career as a police dog. She of work who wanted nothing more than distances and found them hiding under Mon: 0133 6.20 1356 6.30 has recovered well from her injuries attention and cuddles. She was a very cars and in bushes, and the clever canine Tue: 0207 6.20 1433 6.30 and rehabilitation is ongoing. loyal protective dog and loved life as a has sniffed her way to find discarded Wed: 0240 6.20 1508 6.20 Due to the nature of PC Ashcroft’s police dog.” weapons including large knives. Friday, 4th January 2019 5 yellowad.co.uk NEWS FREE Airport terminal Line Dancing set for expansion Classes A PLANNED extension to the terminal at Southend Airport is Easy Moves - Great Music to be made larger after planning permission was granted. Come Alone or Bring a Friend Rochford District Council approved the airport’s planning your first class is Free when you bring this advert application at a development committee meeting last month. Normal price £5 The airport received the go-ahead for an original Beginners Classes application a year ago, for a single storey extension to both the northern and southern elevations of the terminal. WICKFORD: STARTS 21/1/19 Mon 1.45pm Our Lady’s Hall, Opposite Dentist 61 London Rd. SS12 0AW But an additional storey will be added to the northern side WICKFORD: STARTS 25/1/19 Fri 1.45pm Our Lady’s Hall, Opposite Dentist 61 London Road. SS12 0AW of the extension, latest plans ROCHFORD: STARTS 23/1/19 Wed 6.30pm Clements Hall Leisure Centre, Clements Hall Way, Hawkwell. SS5 4LN revealed. A report before the meeting GROWING: Southend Airport SOUTHEND: STARTS 23/1/19 Wed 6.30pm Clements Hall Leisure Centre, Clements Hall Way, Hawkwell. SS5 4LN said almost 4,200 square will now be an extension to Glyn Jones, chief executive STOCK: STARTS 22/1/19 Tue 9.30am Stock Village Hall. Common Rd, Nr Doctors & Bakers Arms Pub. CM4 9NF metres of space are planned to the existing single storey part officer of airport owners be created on the first floor. of the terminal building rather Stobart Aviation, said: “We’d STOCK: STARTS 25/1/19 Fri 6.30pm Stock Village Hall. Common Rd, Nr Doctors & Bakers Arms Pub. CM4 9NF It added that the airport is not than a demolish and rebuild like to thank Rochford BRENTWOOD: STARTS 24/1/19 Thurs 7pm Warley Village Hall, Nr Greyhound Pub, Magpie Lane. CM13 3DZ certain on how the space will proposal that was contained in District Council for granting BRENTWOOD: STARTS 25/1/19 Fri 10.30am Knights Way Centre, East Ham Estate, 32a Knights Way. CM13 2AZ be used but said the most likely the original plans. us permission to extend the uses would be retail or food The extensions will provide terminal building. BRENTWOOD: STARTS 21/1/19 Mon 10.30am Knights Way Centre, Three Arches Estate, 32a Knights Way. CM13 2AZ outlets, airport-related offices space for baggage reclaiming “This development is all RAYLEIGH: STARTS 21/1/19 Mon 7pm Grange Centre, Little Wheately Chase, Nr New BP Garage. 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He’d been raised there he came to dread her accusatory throb. Mick hunched deeper into his although his father and grandmother “Michael!” shoulders as he trudged down Leigh were now long dead. The loss of his job signalled the by Susan Grant, Broadway. It was getting dark and he When Mick’s mum had died, his end of the marriage. He lost contact needed to find somewhere to spend father had dulled the tsunami of with his children in the chaos of a life the night. his grief with alcohol. His father’s unravelling. from Rochford At The Grand, he noticed a gap sudden rages used to paralyse him In a life marked by loss, it seemed in the fence. Although the building with terror as a child. Life got easier congruent that even The Grand had was boarded the recessed porch was when he went to live with nan. gone now. A faint hum of chatter accessible. That would afford better He vividly remembered the spicy invaded his thoughts. Turning, the shelter than a shop doorway, at least warmth of baking day. Her carrot familiar smell of beer assailed him he’d be hidden from irate shopkeepers cake was his favourite. Mick used to through the brightness as his dad or PCSOs moving him on. take nan to The Grand when he was boomed: “Hoi, Mickey Boy!” His nan He didn’t go to Southend anymore. older, teasing her gently about her was smiling, her arms outstretched. Too many homeless people fighting customary port and lemon. PC Joyce Durville surveyed the turf wars for the prime spots. Too Mick’s wife had insisted on calling scene. First glance suggested that much violence. Too many drunks him Michael. He liked it at first death had been by natural causes. urinating on his sleeping bag. as it marked distance between the “Poor bloke. Pity he didn’t get to The homeless hostel was “dry” and painful associations of his childhood eat that piece of carrot cake,” she they’d smelt alcohol on him. He felt “Mickey-boy”. But over the years, murmured. SECOND: Mary by Rachel O’Brien, from Southend SHE held her hands over Turning to leave, she with it.” she was horrified to see a JOHN’S fingers paused for a second her ears as the deafening noticed a shape reflected in Mary was obviously large knife embedded in her above the keyboard, before hitting the shriek reverberated around the mirror next to the bed and deranged and out of control. chest. notes for the final chords of the National the house. recoiled in horror. The cat’s Who knows what she She fell to her knees and Anthem. What had Mary done now? body was sprawled against would do next? They could screamed. He rose slowly from his seat, to receive She cautiously opened her the wall, his fur saturated in be in danger. She decided to The door opened, it was the rapturous applause from the audience bedroom door glancing blood. contact the doctor herself. two policemen and a man she of hundreds that had come to hear him play towards Mary’s room where She screamed: “Mum! She couldn’t let this go on recognised. his last concert. the door was ajar. She’s gone too far this time! regardless of Mum trying to “Thank God” she cried. Ever since he was young and played his Peering with trepidation She needs professional help! protect her. “Doctor, look what Mary’s Mum and Dad’s old upright piano in the around the opening there was First the rabbit and now this.” That night in bed, she heard done now! Please help!” war years, he was only truly happy when no sign of Mary, but a strong Her mum put her head in a muffled shout from her The man knelt next to her he was “tickling the ivories” as he put it. metallic smell was present. her hands in despair. “Don’t mother’s room. She charged and in a quiet voice told her He met his wife to be, Grace, on a concert The austere room con- worry, I’ll sort it out, you go down the corridor to her that they would help but tour. They married but never had children. tained only a bed, mirror and downstairs” mother’s open door. needed her to go with them Their life was spent touring, playing and a wardrobe, which she slowly “You can’t keep protecting Mother lay across the to keep her safe. teaching the piano. opened. her, she’s dangerous!” bed, a pillow over her face, As he helped her stand she She died five years ago, he never really She sighed with relief as Her mother pushed her blood seeping into the covers realised her hands and night- got over her death but consoled himself by only a few hangers were all firmly towards the stairs say- below. ie were drenched in blood. still playing their favourite pieces. that it contained. ing: “I told you I will deal Pulling the pillow away, There was no Mary. lContinued on page 7 P R M I P AC R T E O C MH I S E MINIMO PLUS 4 For enhanced stability • 4 mph • 12.5 miles range • Metallic bronze or white Exclusive to this area* *Exclusive to SS postcodes SOUTHEND: BASILDON: POTTERS BAR: 01702 417088 01268 520233 01707 247200 THE VICTORIA CENTRE SOUTHEND-ON-SEA SS2 5SP 45-49 MARKET SQUARE BASILDON SS14 1DE 7 ENTERPRISE CENTRE CRANBORNE ROAD, POTTERS BAR EN6 3DG Friday, 4th January 2019 7 yellowad.co.uk NEWS From previous page Hospital says parking fees This concert was dif- ferent though. He had decided to stop doing public appearances as his arthritic hands made it too painful to have not risen for two years play for long. He had been lucky to have been born with such a talent for music came so easy to him. He would hear a tune, by Charles Thomson out that the charges often hit staff as well then place his fingers as patients, saying: “For staff working on the keys and behold [email protected] shifts, public transport is often not an a few moments later he option, so nurses and support workers would play it. SOUTHEND Hospital has defended its have no choice but to pay parking charges Years ago he even parking charges after it was ranked eighth that rise year on year. appeared in The Royal in a list of the most expensive trusts in the “Struggling hospitals should not try to Albert Hall at The UK to park for an hour. make money from their staff. Their good- Proms, happy times. The revelation came as Labour said it will won’t last forever.” The audience were would abolish all hospital parking charg- But Yvonne Blucher, managing director still clapping and es, after the Patients Association said peo- of Southend Hospital, said: “Parking fees shouting “encore, ple should not be “charged for being ill”. at Southend University Hospital have not encore” and had stood The cost to park at Southend Hospital increased since 2016. to show their appreci- for one hour is now £3.10. “Thirty minutes’ free parking is availa- ation. John, who had Shadow health secretary Jonathan ble to all visitors, and for those patients stepped away from the Ashworth said: “These car parking charg- and visitors who need to attend regular- piano, returned and es are a tax on the sick. The next Labour ly for certain treatments we also have sat down. He flexed government will axe them.” concession tickets allowing seven days’ his fingers then start- Rachel Power, chief executive of the FEES: Southend Hospital trust says it does not make a profit from parking charges parking for £10. ed to play one last Patients Association, added that whilst fill holes in hospital budgets. unwell. We believe that patients should “The trust does not make a profit from tune. It was his wife’s she understood parking charges generated She said: “Charges for car parking at not be effectively charged for being ill.” parking charges. Instead, fees are reinvested favourite Engelbert revenue in the face of “immense” financial hospitals are a charge on people who are Tom Sandford, director of the Royal into ensuring our parking areas and roads Humperdinck’s The pressures, it should not fall on patients to unwell, levied on them because they are College of Nursing in England, pointed are safe, well-lit and well-maintained.” Last Waltz. The audience Ban for drug-driver who had unsecured child in car although a bit surprised at his choice started joining in with the A WOMAN caught drug-driving with an found a young child not properly secured Jenna, of Whittingham Avenue, son for the South Operation Raptor team words. unsecured young child in the car has been or on a booster seat, but the 23-year-old Southend, was due at Southend said: “Not only did Jenna put the safety “That my dear, was given a three-year ban. driver Ellie Jenna smelled of cannabis. Magistrates’ Court on Monday, December of other road users and herself at risk by the best performance of Southend Magistrates’ Court heard Officers carried out a roadside drug 17 but failed to appear. driving under the influence of drugs, but your life. Thank you officers from Essex Police’s South swipe of Jenna who tested positive for She was arrested in Harlow on Boxing she also had a young child in the car who for playing my favour- Operation Raptor team were patrolling the Class B drug. She was arrested and Day and taken to Southend Magistrates’ was not properly strapped in. Every day ite tune.” Grace turned, Bournes Green Chase, Southend, on July charged with driving whilst under the Court the same day. Jenna admitted the Operation Raptor are out on the streets smiled at John and 13 when they noticed a child in the back influence of drugs and driving a vehicle charges and was banned from driving for of the county targeting those involved in took hold of his slender of a VW Golf was not strapped in. with a child passenger aged between three 36 months and fined £235. drug-related crime. We will continue to do pain-free hands. When they pulled the car over they and 13 who was not wearing a seatbelt. 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Benfleet Business leaders and leaders generations PM May’s deal in financial organisations will 2018w as the year nThe #MeToo movement nNow the most divisive all be putting pressure on MPs where every- would have you believe that issue since the English Civil I DON’T know what all the to accept Mrs May’s deal and one seemed there are two genders: War. I’ve said before that fuss is about leaving the EU better than a there is of course the threat of to get offended by absolutely women and sex pests. I voted remain in the EU with no deal. That’s what the a general election with Mrs anything and everything And there lies the problem referendum and that I did 17.4million people voted for. no-deal Brexit May as the leader of the Tory became politically incorrect to with campaigns that spring up it, not through a belief in the There is no room for a Party with a very bad record a level where anyone deemed over one incident. Suddenly European Union (the idea of a guilty of straying from the new the net gets thrown out and European army and a minister second referendum, it would OF course Jeremy Corbyn on winning elections. puritan path was not just criti- some dolphins get trapped who would have the authority only cause serious disorder DID say that Theresa May was The preparations for a cised, but vilified. with the catch of smelly fish. to challenge decisions made with riots and bloodshed. a stupid woman and although no-deal Brexit is of course This has left meat eaters on Operation Yewtree was the by sovereign parliaments What rubbish I speak. What I am no supporter of him and a further tactic to encourage either side of the Brexit debate same with every celebrity goes way beyond the trading rubbish those who propose this think that he is a total idiot, MPs to vote for her deal and is with any vestige of a libido or from the ’60s and ’70s target- collective it was created to speak I have to say, what’s the fuss a worthwhile expense to help even a sense of humour walk- ed as a potential child abuser. be and I want no part of that) I speak as an 82-year-old, about? win the day. ing a very thin line indeed. OK, Savile always struck me as but because I have seen too who perhaps hasn’t many If the Prime Minister was a So I suspect that the Prime Nothing winds me up more creepy, but there are others many of my fellow journalists more years left. man and he said stupid man, Minister’s deal will be voted than being told how I should whose reputations were lose their jobs over the past 10 To be honest whatever would it be a problem? in and if not those that voted behave. Most of us just try to destroyed without any solid years for reasons flimsier than happens in the next month Or if a female member of against it will be rushing to live our lives to acceptable evidence and they were seen Brexit. will have little or no effect the opposition called her a the toilets when the result is standards, but let’s face it as collateral damage as the We need to let go of who on me and my wife, but it stupid woman would that be announced. none of us are perfect, and authorities tried to make up voted which way or who will have serious implications offensive? Failing this we need to this has been the year where for letting the guilty get away told lies. If breaking election for my son and daughter and I believe in total sexual settle for a no-deal Brexit and too many fingers have been with it for so long. promises was illegal then even more so to my four equality but isn’t it all getting that will certainly sort all of pointed by self-appointed That torch and pitchfork every surviving party leader grandchildren. a little silly? our problems albeit at a high moral arbiters. philosophy has continued past and present would have I don’t care who or what since the Harvey Weinstein been inside by now. Toxic Tony I was around during the Mrs May, however, is not financial cost. you chose to worship, what scandal. might have got out in time for Second World War and was stupid in my opinion. One thing is certain, if gender you prefer to sleep As a result, some men who Christmas, but after the past scared. She is cleverly guiding the there is a call for another with or what you eat. That’s at worst have at times in few weeks he would certainly I was around during the Government into a situation referendum it will be an insult entirely your business and the past maybe acted a bit be in breach of his parole. Cuba crisis and was petrified. where her deal with the to the British people and so long as it’s legal I respect inappropriately by the stan- The vote is in the past. The I am around in this Brexit era EU will be difficult to vote failure for democracy and a whatever choice you make. dards of today (which just most important thing now is and I seriously fear the likely against. move towards dictatorship. My belief system is simple: about covers all of us above to work together and if par- “no deal” economic crisis, but No one wants a no-deal exit Surely even the remainers those in dire need of help 40) have endured character liamentarians can’t get their I am not fearful of my fellow from the EU and she is forcing would not want this? should get it out of common assassination as if they had heads out of their backsides countrymen and women being a situation where the only way Keith Little decency and our differences been exposed as rapists or at and do the job we pay them unruly and riotous simply to stop this is to vote for her Benfleet are ultimately inconsequential. the very least dangerous sex- for it’s time to put an end to because they are being asked deal, which in my opinion is But any salad muncher ual deviants. this shameful episode and look who thinks it’s acceptable to As I enter 2019 in a new... at a People’s Congress. n We welcome letters and e-mails on all subjects. Please keep them to fewer than 250 words shout at me in a restaurant or (too soon to call it the R-word) Let’s see how some of those and include your full name, address and daytime telephone number, wherever possible, for at a supermarket butcher’s I’m damned if I’m going to career politicians take to verification. Anonymous letters will not be accepted for publication. counter is crossing a line and allow activists to make me redundancy. Contributions may be edited for reasons of space or legal considerations. I will take great pleasure in worry about any innocent Solidarity needs to be all of chewing open mouth on a interaction I have with the our resolutions amid this mad- The opinions expressed on this page are not necessarily those of this newspaper. juicy sirloin right in their sanc- opposite sex being seen in the ness of political incorrectness. 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