Ben Raine is doing his best to counter-attack for Durham, taking two boundaries from a Jack Leach over.

Brydon Carse is also looking to score whenever he can and if this pair can chip away at the deficit, the visitors might yet find a route back into the game.

Meanwhile, Somerset are rotating their spinners to good effect, with Archie Vaughan back on for another spell alongside Leach.

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Essex 281-7 v Worcs 266

Essex's Michael Pepper takes three runs off Joe Leach to reach 50 from 64 balls.

The home side have been accumulating slowly since the interval and have a slender lead of 15 over the Pears.

Four overs into the evening session at Headingley and it won't come as any surprise that they've all been bowled by spinners.

Two each for Dom Bess and Dan Moriarty, who will presumably shoulder most of the bowling burden in this Middlesex innings.

So far, the visitors have increased their total by six runs, with Mark Stoneman on 27 and Sam Robson 26.

As Daniel Bell-Drummond and Harry Finch try to mount a rearguard action, it's worth looking at Kent's struggles with the ball.

This is their 11th Championship game of the season and they have conceded more than 400 in the first innings in 10 of those games.

The exception was bowling Lancashire out for 92 at Old Trafford in May - the only game they have won this summer.

It is impossible to win matches when shipping so many runs, so consistently.

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Notts 57-1 v Surrey 525

A filthy full toss from Cameron Steel is sent to the midwicket boundary by Haseeb Hameed.

It's a very quick 50 partnership between the captain and Freddie McCann.

They are now only 468 runs behind!

A late tea at Old Trafford, but those two wickets from Liam Dawson have again shifted the match in Hampshire's favour.

The dismissal of Keaton Jennings for 56 was huge to end the partnership of 90 between him and Josh Bohannon for the second wicket.

Bohannon is 40 not out and much responsibility will be on him in the final session.

Expect Dawson to wheel away for most of it. His 2-15 can go with his 104 not out this morning.

Jack Leach has three wickets already - and he very nearly added a fourth in his last over, whizzing deliveries narrowly past the edge of Bas de Leede's bat.

The first of those prompted an appeal for caught behind, which was rejected by the umpire, but Leach really has the bit between his teeth at the moment.

Brydon Carse doesn't look as though he fancies hanging around, having already clubbed the spinner over the top for a boundary since his arrival at the crease just after tea.

Positive stuff from Notts in the two overs since tea at Trent Bridge.

A pair of fours for Haseeb Hameed and one for Freddie McCann gets the scoreboard ticking along nicely.

Surrey skipper Rory Burns is on the attack, so there are gaps in the field.

A few games are in play but here's a look at the scores approaching 4pm on day two.

Division One

• Somerset 492 v Durham 150-4
• Warks 420 v Kent 156 & 6-0 - in play
• Essex 275-7 v Worcs 266
• Lancashire 104-2 v Hampshire 389 - in play
• Notts 34-1 v Surrey 525

Division Two

• Glamorgan 318-5 v Leicestershire 251
• Yorkshire 601-6 dec v Middlesex 55-0
• Sussex 607-8 dec v Derbyshire 52-4 - in play

Ben Compton has been joined by wicketkeeper Harry Finch to open this Kent second innings.

Ollie Hannon-Dalby begins with a maiden to Finch, before Compton gets the score up and running with a flick for four off Chris Rushworth.

Tea is called and Essex have found a way to get their noses in front after some testing periods courtesy of the Pears' bowling attack.

The evening session is set up nicely, can Essex kick on to build a significant lead or will Worcestershire take those last three wickets quickly?

Mark Stoneman takes a single off the final over before tea, from Dan Moriarty, and Middlesex have safely negotiated their first hurdle - but still have a very long way to go.

Stoneman has 22, with Sam Robson on 25 and the deficit is 546 - so just the trifling matter of 397 to avoid the follow-on.

Michael Pepper's unbeaten 45 has moved Essex in front at Chelmsford.

He and Shane Snater have put on almost 50 together.

When last wicket Simon Harmer departed, Essex were wobbling a bit as Worcestershire picked up wickets.

After seven overs of seam, Yorkshire decided to deploy their double-pronged spin attack and we'll have Dan Moriarty and Dom Bess in tandem until tea - and most likely beyond.

There was a scare just now for Sam Robson when Bess turned one away and it sailed into the hands of Jonny Bairstow at leg slip, but the ball brushed pad rather than bat on its way through.