Another woman says she had her eyes set on a little cottage in Leigh-on-Sea near Southend.

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She has been named as 64-year-old Janet Gilson, a Salvation Army worker from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

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The report on the Leigh-on-Sea woman indicated a history of domestic abuse reports during her 56-year marriage.

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Havens Hospices had said the two-storey building at Leigh-on-Sea would respond to "an urgent need" for extra capacity.

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Susan Hatton, 61, says she was punished for stopping for "eight seconds" in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in December 2011.

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Mr Fowles was born in 1926 in the Essex suburb of Leigh-on-Sea, the son of a cigarmaker and tobacconist.

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Omer Kaya, 33, of Leigh-on-Sea, was shot in the neck on Tuesday while sightseeing in San Pedro Sula, the Central American country's second city.

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Susan Hatton, 61, from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, has so far refused to pay the fine for the "eight second" offence in her hometown in December 2011.

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Mrs Hatton, who lives in Leigh-on-Sea, said timed footage of the incident showed her door was open for eight seconds while her father exited the car.

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The injury happened after detonators - which are used as fog signals - were taken from a depot in Leigh-on-Sea and put on on a bonfire at a nearby park.

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"We don't really focus on it too much because at the end of the day we're aiming for gold at the Olympics and not just to beat the Brits, " said the Leigh-on-Sea sailor.

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