Welcome to live coverage for Essex in a new weekpublished at 08:03 British Summer Time 10 April 2017
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
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Georgina Burnett will be here shortly with the forecast and it's a chilly start to the day with a cooling northerly breeze so the weekend warmth is not likely to be repeated.