Saffron Walden News from the Saffron Walden Reporter

A COLD snap predicted on the weekend has meant Essex County Council s winter gritter teams are on high alert. The gritters are preparing to salt the primary Essex highway network with temperatures expected to reach minus 2 degrees. A few sleet showers ar...

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New pipes could cause traffic misery

14:05 - 21 November 2008

A WATER company has announced a plan to dig up and replace almost 10kms of pipes, potentially causing traffic misery for up to six months on village roads. Stansted Mountfitchet is one of the three villages that will benefit from the £1.5 million being s...

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Children In Need at Stebbing Primary School

Gallery: Children in need

YOUNGSTERS baked cakes, wore colourful clothes, and dressed in spots to raise money for the BBC s Children in Need Appeal on Friday. Children at the Mucky Moments playschool, based at Sewards End Village Hall on Tuesday mornings, enjoyed a Pudsey Bear-the...

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Slideshow: Good turn out for Halloween screening

SKELETONS, witches, pumpkins and spiders arrived for a special Halloween screening on Friday. Nearly 100 people of all ages dressed up to watch Tim Burton s animated film Corpse Bride at Saffron Screen in the Saffron Walden County High School. Cinema mana...

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Bloods are 'too lightweight'

Thetford Town 2, Saffron Walden 1 THE Bloods were muscled off the ball by a strong Thetford side in a 2-1 defeat in the Ridgeons League First Division on Saturday. Assistant manager John Butchart said his team were too lightweight to compete agai...

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Much needed win for Walden

Harlow 15, Saffron Walden 21 WALDEN improved their chances of avoiding the drop with a narrow win at Harlow on Saturday. Harlow kicked off and were soon on the attack and for the first quarter of an hour they looked the dominant side scoring a penal...

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Want to treat your loved one to some pampering? Then why not enter today s Christmas Wrapped Up giveaway because it could be your mum sitting in the stylists chair having a complete cut and colour thanks to the Salon Group. With branches in Saffron Walde...

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Is there are Strictly fan in your family? Why not surprise them this Christmas by giving them a pair of tickets to the Live Tour which is showing at Wembley Arena in February? Series Two champion Jill Halfpenny, comic Julian Clary, last year s smooth mov...

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