Stuart Bailey
BBC News

Hello and welcome to Friday's live updates for Essex.

It's 28 July and we'll be here until 18:00 with the latest news, sport, weather and travel for the county.

A full weather forecast is on the way shortly.

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Kent win a rain-affected T20 Blast match against Somerset, while Brendon McCullum is in devastating form as Middlesex beat Essex.

That's it for another day of live updates, thank you for your company.

We'll be back again from 08:00 tomorrow, with all the news, sport, travel and weather for the county.

Until then, here's a quick recap of some of the stories we've been covering - scroll down for more:

• Boy corrects national museum's dinosaur error
• Teenager says death punch was "to defend friend"
• Figures rise for assaults on staff and prisoners at Chelmsford Prison.

Have a great evening. Those dark clouds captured in the BBC Weather Watchers picture below look pretty ominous!

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

The Duke of Cambridge has started his last shift for the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

Prince William joined the emergency service two years ago, but is leaving to concentrate more on royal duties on behalf of the Queen.

Listen to live BBC local radio commentary as Hampshire face Essex in the T20 Blast.

Essex batsman Tom Westley made 25 on his England debut.

Together with his county colleague Alastair Cook, he helped England to an encouraging start, moving the home side to 62 for one at lunch on the first day of the third test against South Africa at the Oval.

He was caught at slip in the first over after the restart by the visitors' skipper Faf du Plessis.

Cook remains not out. There is a break in play due to rain with the score at 114-3.

Charlie "knows his dinosaurs" and spotted an incorrectly labelled one at the Natural History Museum.

A young dinosaur fan noticed an incorrect image on a museum sign about Oviraptors.

A 10-year-old boy has corrected the Natural History Museum over a sign which was incorrect.

Charlie Edwards, from Canvey Island, was at the attraction when he noticed the description of a dinosaur did not match its image.

He had gone to the London venue as a birthday present and was nine at the time.

The museum, external has admitted the schoolboy was right and the sign is now being changed.

Charlie said: "The dinosaur was claiming to be an Oviraptor but it most likely looked like a little dinosaur that probably came from the Triceratops family."

Image source, Charlie Edwards

Image source, Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum has admitted one of its dinosaurs was "wrong", after a 10-year-old boy spotted the error. Charlie Edwards, from Canvey Island, Essex, noticed an incorrect image on a sign about Oviraptors. His mother Jade Edwards said that due to his Asperger syndrome, he "will try and find out everything" about a subject when he likes it. The museum was "very impressed with Charlie's knowledge," a spokesman said, and the sign will be corrected.

The victim "was weaving around and saying 'fight me'", the court hears.

Debbie Tubby
BBC Look East

A 16-year-old boy accused of killing a drunk Polish man with a "superman punch" has told a jury he hit him "to defend my friend".

Image source, Essex Police

The defendant, who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged attack and cannot be named for legal reasons, denies the manslaughter of Arkadiusz Jozwik.

Mr Jozwik, 40, who was known as Arek, had been with two friends outside a row of takeaway shops in Harlow, Essex, at the time of the incident, shortly after 23:30 on 27 August last year.

The defendant told Chelmsford Crown Court, external the Polish men were being "aggressive and loud" and urged him and his friends to fight them.

He said they grabbed one of his friends and used abusive language against him.

The defendant said he was "scared" and hit Mr Jozwik.

He said he did not mean to cause harm. After the blow, he said he ran off, adding: "I just felt like it was a big nightmare."

The trial continues.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Prince William will tonight leave his job as a pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance after two years.

Over the years he been spotted in playing fields and schools, attending some very injured people.

Here's the prince explaining the highs and lows of the job...

New figures released by the Ministry of Justice show assaults on staff and prisoners at Chelmsford Prison last year were at an all time high.

Image source, PA

The data, external shows there were 122 reports of attacks on officers in 2016 compared with 80 in 2015.

Six prisoners have also taken their own lives in the last two years.

Nationally, the figures show a rise in violence with 26,643 assaults in the year to March 2017 - 20% more than the previous year.

Of these, a record 7,159 were attacks on staff - equivalent to 20 every day.

Justice Secretary David Lidington said: "Boosting the frontline is critical to achieving safety and the number of prison officers we are recruiting is rising, with the number of new prison officers joining the service at its highest level since 2010."

The chairman of Cambridge United has asked for fans to "come together" when his side face Southend United in a friendly on Saturday.

A league fixture at Roots Hall in March 2015 was the match which ended with Cambridge fan Simon Dobbin getting attacked and left brain-damaged after the game.

Twelve people have now been jailed for that attack with a 13th due to be sentenced next month.

All proceeds from the match will go to Simon and his wife Nicole to help improve Mr Dobbin's quality of life at home in Mildenhall.

Dave Doggett said he wants to show that "football has a good side".

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

One of UKIP's MEPs for the east of England, Patrick O'Flynn, is standing down from his party's front bench in an apparent row over the future direction of the party.

Patrick O'Flynn says he doesn't want to be economic spokesman anymore because he's worried that the party is becoming too right wing.

"I have always argued for UKIP to be at the common sense centre of politics, rather than defined as being on the right wing," he said in a statement.

"It is clear to me that UKIP's activist base wishes to go in a more libertarian, shrink-the-state and Thatcherite direction.

"It is regrettable that the more centrist approach argued by the likes of me ....is falling by the wayside."

Mr O'Flynn, a former newspaper journalist, was one of the new breed of party activists who had influential contacts and made UKIP look more professional.

One of the party's "big hitters", he has often appeared on television debates and was seen by some as being a future leader.

He says he will stay on as an MEP and looks forward to seeing brexit being completed.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

So as we've mentioned, today will see the Duke of Cambridge work his last shift with the East Anglia Air Ambulance.

The night shift, which begins at 16:30, will bring an end to two years with the emergency service, which is a charity supporting the NHS East of England Ambulance Service.

Here are a couple of "thanks" on Twitter...

Essex batsman Tom Westley is set to make his England debut today in the third Test against South Africa at The Oval.

Image source, Getty Images

The selectors confirmed the 28-year-old will bat at number three in place of Gary Ballance, who broke a finger in the second Test.

The four-Test series is level at 1-1 following South Africa's 340-run win at Trent Bridge.

Westley has scored 478 runs at an average of 53.11, including two centuries, for County Championship leaders Essex this season. He averages 37.44 in his first-class career.

He hit 106 not out for England Lions against a full-strength South Africa bowling attack at Worcester last month.

Excitement is building for Clacton Airshow as organisers announce more acts to its line up.

Image source, Tendring District Council

The event, which is celebrating its 26th year and is one of the longest-running free airshows in the country, will be held on 24 and 25 August.

Titan the Robot, external will return to perform on the West Greensward three times on the Thursday and a further two acts will follow on the Friday.

RAF Tutor will also be back in the skies at the airshow.

Mick Skeels, Tendring District Council, external’s cabinet member for leisure and tourism, said that the overall line-up is really starting to take shape - with more announcements to come over the next few weeks.

“We are now less than a month away and the excitement is starting to build for what promises to be another high quality Clacton Airshow,” he said.

“It is a premier event on the calendar and pulls in flight fans from far and wide and they will not be disappointed with the programme of events on the ground and in the air."

BBC Essex will have commentary on both days on 103.5FM and 729 medium wave.

Police have released CCTV images a month after an Essex man was killed in a fight at a motorway service station.

Image source, Surrey Police

Hughie Saunders, 20, from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, was attacked at the petrol station of Cobham services on the M25 in Surrey on 26 June.

Mr Saunders, nicknamed "Quhey", suffered serious head injuries and died in hospital two days later.

Surrey Police said the images show four people who made purchases within the service station store between 15:00 and 15:30 on Monday, 26 June.

Officers are also keen to trace the driver of a distinctive green Model A Ford that was on the petrol station forecourt.

Simon Baker, 22, of Green Lane, Outwood near Redhill is due to appear at Guildford Crown Court in connection with Mr Saunders' death on 13 November.