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Sharon and Rob Howlett in their garden. 'We would like to grow more colourful plants in the border, but the soil conditions do restrict this. In time, our homemade compost will hopefully improve the conditions.'

Winners of Havering’s Best Lockdown Garden
Do you “buy” this? Sharon and Rob Howlett insist they “aren’t serious gardeners” ? simply enjoying their time together outside.

The former Culver Square Woolworths in Colchester: still empty in August, 2009 Picture:

Andrew Partridge

Woolworths: 10 years on. Are you still missing its pic ’n’ mix sweets?
Marlene Lever worked at Sudbury’s North Street Woolies for 27 years. Then the company collapsed. When Marlene went, she took her locker with her...

The former Culver Square Woolworths in Colchester: still empty in August, 2009 Picture:

Andrew Partridge

Woolworths: 10 years on. Are you still missing its pic ’n’ mix sweets?
Marlene Lever worked at Sudbury’s North Street Woolies for 27 years. Then the company collapsed. When Marlene went, she took her locker with her...

The former Culver Square Woolworths in Colchester: still empty in August, 2009 Picture:

Andrew Partridge

Woolworths: 10 years on. Are you still missing its pic ’n’ mix sweets?
Marlene Lever worked at Sudbury’s North Street Woolies for 27 years. Then the company collapsed. When Marlene went, she took her locker with her...

The Grand Hotel in Lowestoft in 1953. Picture: Archant

Stepping back in time to era of opulence at the seaside
Did you ever step from a sandy beach and sink into the deep-pile carpet of a luxurious seaside hotel complete with chandeliers, soaring staircases and a piano-player tinkling the ivories? (Places like the old Grand at Southwold, say.) Steven Russell on a golden age

The Grand Hotel in Lowestoft in 1953. Picture: Archant

Stepping back in time to era of opulence at the seaside
Did you ever step from a sandy beach and sink into the deep-pile carpet of a luxurious seaside hotel complete with chandeliers, soaring staircases and a piano-player tinkling the ivories? (Places like the old Grand at Southwold, say.) Steven Russell on a golden age

Actress Judi Dench was a famous customer at a country show. She had a lovely sense of humour, says Stephie Papworth.

Just what was it that caught the eye of Dame Judi Dench?
'If someone says 'Can you do me a pink leather bag with sequins on it?' I have to say that's not really what my strengths are' ? Mark Papworth of White Buffalo Crafts

Actress Judi Dench was a famous customer at a country show. She had a lovely sense of humour, says Stephie Papworth.

Just what was it that caught the eye of Dame Judi Dench?
'If someone says 'Can you do me a pink leather bag with sequins on it?' I have to say that's not really what my strengths are' ? Mark Papworth of White Buffalo Crafts

Actress Judi Dench was a famous customer at a country show. She had a lovely sense of humour, says Stephie Papworth.

Just what was it that caught the eye of Dame Judi Dench?
'If someone says 'Can you do me a pink leather bag with sequins on it?' I have to say that's not really what my strengths are' ? Mark Papworth of White Buffalo Crafts

Flashback to 2011, as authors, judges and sponsors gather for the 2011 New Angle Prize for Literature dinner at the Belstead Brook Hotel in Ipswich

Is your favourite book among the six titles celebrating the best in East Anglian writing?
The six shortlisted books have been unveiled for the 2017 New Angle Prize – a competition for literary work associated with or influenced by East Anglia.