NHS Staff discovered her rings had been replaced with low-value “tin” bands

Essex Police have launched an investigation after reports of the theft from the elderly woman who was being treated at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

Family 'distraught' after wedding rings stolen from finger of dying woman

Preparing for the championships in Chelmsford

Chelmsford is hosting the UK unicycle trials championships  - it's the third time the county has played host to the event the event

Forget the Olympics - Essex hosts extreme unicycling championships

NHSBT Blood and Transplant blood and plasma donation

A campaign is being launched today to get more people to donate their blood plasma for medicines.

Health bosses plea for people to donate blood plasma for life-saving medicines

A series of anti knife crime events are to take place in Chelmsford in the next couple of months, ahead of the arrival of the "Knife Angel" sculpture. 

"Knife Angel" to bring a message to Chelmsford

A high school in Chelmsford has been fined after a young child died when a locker in a changing room fell on top of him. 

Essex school fined after locker fall fatally injured boy

A court heard how the trust was made aware of suicide risks in its units, but that little to no action was taken over eleven years

Essex mental heath trust fined £1.5m for failings that led to 11 deaths

Essex County Council has said that the Indian variant of Covid-19 has been detected in a small number of households in the Chelmsford area.

Indian variant detected in Essex, testing ramped up

A pair of metal detectorists who kept iron age coins worth thousands of pounds for themselves have been sentenced for not declaring the treasure. 

Essex metal detectorists sentenced for not declaring whole Iron Age coin hoard

A bag of plasma hangs above an apheresis machine, which separates plasma from blood, as people donate blood plasma for medicines for the first time in more than 20 years at the Twickenham Donor Centre, south-west London, after a ban on the procedure was lifted in February. The ban was origina

Donations of blood plasma in England for use in the manufacture of medicines  have begun after the lifting of a ban which lasted for more than two decades.

Chelmsford one of 14 centres in new blood trials

A mental health trust in Essex, which previously admitted failures of care involving the deaths of 11 patients, has been told to make improvements.

Watchdog tells Essex mental health trust that it must improve safety

Families whose loved ones died under the care of Essex mental health services are urging the government to grant them the inquiry

Demand for public inquiry into Essex mental health deaths to be debated by MPs

A former Butlins entertainer was so desperate to see her dad during the first lockdown she volunteered at his care home and is still bringing joy to residents.

Former Redcoat volunteers at care home to be near her father in the pandemic

Police were called to the Linden Centre in Chelmsford, Essex, after the patient  fled on October 23. The man was struck by a train just  after 10pm the same day

Patient dies  after absconding from mental health centre

Prof Stephen Bustin and new testing machine

A professor from Anglia Ruskin University has created a brand-new Covid-19 testing device that can return results in less than 20 minutes.

Anglia Ruskin professor helps create 20-minute Covid-19 test

Cars will be parked more than two metres apart as they watch the show.

The Birmingham Stage Company is putting on drive-in shows at car parks across the UK inspired by the Horrible Histories children's books. 

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