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How will museums of tomorrow tell the Covid pandemic story?
Covid’s arrival in early 2020 threw organisations and businesses into turmoil. But while most workers grappled with furlough, social distancing and working from home, a…
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The leafy street in Leigh-on-Sea that 80 sham firms call home
If you believed the paperwork, Henry Drive in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, would be a thriving business metropolis specialising in the wholesale clothing market with entrepreneurs from…
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The cemetery where iron crosses mark people with disabilities
In a small village cemetery, 34 tiny iron crosses poke up through the soil. Many are twisted and a few are missing completely. On some,…
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How many other Hemsbys are waiting to happen?
Coastal erosion claimed three homes in Hemsby last weekend and a further two properties in the village are deemed at serious risk. Are there other…
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The place where one in ten homes is largely unused
“I will never be able to buy my own home here,” says Polly Robins, a third-generation resident of Wells-next-the-Sea, a North Norfolk town sitting in…
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Inside the floating polar research laboratory
The vessel the public once hoped to name Boaty McBoatface is poised to return to Antarctica after making its first voyage to the continent a…
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The village where the women are still in charge
Nearly 100 years ago the long-defunct Westminster Gazette told its readers about a village “run by women”. The village in question was Lawford, which adjoins…
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The tower block residents who want their old cladding back
Housing providers up and down the country have been removing potentially dangerous cladding in the aftermath of the Grenfell disaster which left 72 people dead.…
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Why are old post boxes suddenly vanishing?
There are more than 100,000 post boxes across the UK. But in recent weeks, villages across East Anglia have reported their post boxes missing. Why?…
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What do the new inflation figures mean for those already struggling to make ends meet?
New figures show that soaring food costs and the energy bill crisis are driving up prices at their fastest rate in almost 30 years, squeezing…