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Essex
6 Items
The discovery is Britain's largest ever hoard of Iron Age gold coins.
2 mins
Kimberley Chambers grew up in Dagenham and only wrote her first novel in 2008.
The Essex hamlet that vanished
The buildings, people and myths that made way for Hanningfield Reservoir in the 1950s.
26 Jun 2026,·9 mins
Douglas Adams
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Douglas Adams
06 Feb 1994,·40 mins
A new TV adaptation of the much-loved detective novels is in the pipeline.
3 mins
A new lower Thames Crossing will connect Kent and Essex, but how did we get to this point?
4 mins
