Summary

  • The latest updates on the 2019 local elections in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk

  • The Liberal Democrats unexpectedly win Chelmsford from the Tories, and North Norfolk from No Overall Control

  • Conservatives lose Basildon, Southend, St Albans, Tendring and Peterborough to No Overall Control

  • The Tories also fail to take one of their target councils, Colchester, where group leader Darius Laws lost his seat to the Greens

  • Conservatives hold Epping Forest, Castle Point, Rochford, Braintree, Maldon and Brentwood

  • Labour hold Ipswich, Harlow and Cambridge

  • Independents make gains in Thurrock, which remains in No Overall Control

  1. Erosion-threat home's owner won't stop sea battlepublished at 19:56 Greenwich Mean Time 12 February 2020

    Lance Martin has hired a digger to help shore up sea defences near his home in Hemsby.

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  2. State primary boarding school gets approvalpublished at 18:21 Greenwich Mean Time 12 February 2020

    Pupils will get free education, but parents will still have to pay for accommodation and food.

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  3. Trust completes re-thatching of Tudor barnpublished at 10:14 Greenwich Mean Time 8 February 2020

    The 16th Century building was used to store grain which had to be given to the Church as a tax.

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  4. Climate campaigners stage pollution mock funeralpublished at 18:17 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2020

    Members of Extinction Rebellion carry a coffin into the offices of Ipswich Borough Council.

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  5. Council 'naive' over unpaid business centre loanpublished at 16:32 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2020

    An investigation finds council did not check how a £2.5m loan would be paid back.

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  6. Car park plans 'entirely commercially motivated'published at 11:16 Greenwich Mean Time 6 February 2020

    Cambridge City Council is missing a "huge opportunity" with the £80-90m development, it is claimed.

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  7. Ex-Ford HQ sold for £40m with plans for 400 homespublished at 17:10 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2020

    The car giant's site was the centre of its UK operations for more than 50 years.

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  8. Man dumped TV under council 'no tipping' signpublished at 14:51 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2020

    The fly-tipper is fined after being caught dumping rubbish at a council building

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  9. Family-run High Street shop to get freedom of citypublished at 08:15 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2020

    A mayor grants the honour for a firm's contribution to a city over centuries.

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  10. 40mph limit proposed to stop A14 bridge closurespublished at 10:55 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January 2020

    The Orwell Bridge currently closes when winds get above 50mph (80km/h) - causing traffic chaos.

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  11. Preferred route announced in final rail link planspublished at 18:40 Greenwich Mean Time 30 January 2020

    The route could see two new railway stations built to support "economic growth", bosses say.

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  12. Council leader opposes multi-million pound bypasspublished at 17:19 Greenwich Mean Time 30 January 2020

    Matthew Hicks says the project could not proceed "with any degree of success".

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  13. Town's name-change will put it back 'on the map'published at 15:29 Greenwich Mean Time 30 January 2020

    Purfleet is to be named Purfleet-on-Thames to make it a "more desirable place to live".

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  14. Tudor tithe barn appeal launchedpublished at 11:59 Greenwich Mean Time 30 January 2020

    A group trying to save an early Tudor tithe barn from redevelopment launches a £250,000 appeal.

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  15. 'Majority' against northern bypass proposalspublished at 15:56 Greenwich Mean Time 28 January 2020

    Some 15,000 homes would need to be built to make a new road around Ipswich viable, say planners.

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  16. Town floods 'could have been prevented' - reportpublished at 13:03 Greenwich Mean Time 28 January 2020

    The leaked report was written nine years before a tidal surge hit Lowestoft town centre.

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  17. Stansted Airport expansion rejected by councilpublished at 19:36 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2020

    Councillors voted against plans to increase passenger numbers at the Essex airport.

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  18. Lorry driver arrested over cyclist's deathpublished at 13:08 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2020

    A man in his 60s dies after a crash with a lorry on a dual carriageway.

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  19. Shock at trust's 'cynical' email over care deathpublished at 18:43 Greenwich Mean Time 23 January 2020

    A mental health trust claims it "got away with it again" over news coverage of a woman's death.

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  20. Woman died after care home attack despite warningspublished at 06:43 Greenwich Mean Time 23 January 2020

    Great grandmother Doreen Livermore broke her hip when she was assaulted at a King's Lynn care home.

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