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Three people arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia

Two men and a woman have been arrested at two separate addresses in Grays, Essex, on suspicion of assisting the Russian intelligence service.

Evening Standard

Teacher sent sexual messages to pupil and encouraged him to smoke cannabis

Charlotte Doman, 32, was a history teacher in Grays when the inappropriate contact with the boy began

The Independent UK

‘It feels like we never left’: resentment builds in one of UK’s firmest Brexit-backing areas

Keir Starmer says Britons have moved on but many in Thurrock think they were lied to in debate about leaving EU

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Four-foot caiman among items seized in police search as two arrested

The animal was found by officers executing a warrant at an address in Aveley, near Grays, on Thursday.

Evening Standard

New train station beside 4,000-home redevelopment of former Ford factory delayed until end of 2027

Beam Park station due to have c2c trains to Barking, Grays and Fenchurch Street

Evening Standard

White Hart Inn: Pub in Essex that displayed golly dolls closes after backlash and supplier boycott

Landlady of White Hart in Grays ‘has been crying all week’ after decision to close following backlash for displaying offensive dolls

Evening Standard

Pub closes after row sparked by seizure of golliwog dolls by police

A collection of the dolls were removed from the White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex.

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Essex pub that displayed golly dolls seized by police is vandalised

White Hart Inn in Grays, which has been the subject of a reported hate crime, daubed with graffiti and has windows damaged

The Guardian - UK

Police probe ‘racist’ Facebook posts by landlord displaying golly***s in pub

Essex Police officers seized the offensive dolls at the White Hart Inn in Grays

The Independent UK

Pub owner embroiled in racist dolls controversy posted vile 'hanging' comment

Chris Ryley's pub The White Hart Inn in Essex had its display of offensive dolls removed by police - and now an unearthed Facebook post from 2016 appears to show the landlord making a vile joke about lynch mobs WARNING: STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

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Essex pub landlady replaces golliwog doll collection that was seized by police

Benice Ryley plans to display new dolls despite police investigation into an alleged hate crime

The Guardian - UK

Landlady puts ‘golli***’ dolls back on display days after police raid

Landlady Benice Ryley says she is ‘grateful’ for home secretary’s intervention, adding: ‘She’s totally right’

The Independent UK

Racist dolls row landlady defies police to put dolls back on display

Golly dolls have long been accepted as deeply offensive to Black communities as images from the The White Hart Inn, in Grays, Essex, show some of the dolls being hung by their necks from the top of the bar WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

Daily Mirror

Essex police deny Braverman rebuked them over pub seizure of golliwog dolls

Force rebuffs claim home secretary said they should focus on ‘catching criminals’ after items taken from White Hart Inn in Grays

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Suella Braverman criticises police for sending officers to seize offensive dolls from pub

The pub was also reported to the local council in 2018 for displaying the dolls, but did not take them down

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Police force deny scolding by Home Secretary over seizure of pub's offensive dolls

Essex Police seized several golliwogs from the White Hart Inn in Grays last week as part of an investigation into a hate crime. The Daily Mail claimed Suella Braverman had reprimanded the force, but the police deny the claim.

Daily Mirror

Woman attacked by dog that ran up as she got out of car leaving permanent scars

The victim was getting out of her car in Grays, Essex, when she was attacked by Peter Fricker's dog. She was badly bitten suffering eight deep wounds to her legs and needed urgent surgery

Daily Mirror

Police admit delay adding missing student nurse to internal system due to 'human error'

The student nurse was last seen at her home in Grays, Essex on July 4 and then reported missing to police at 12.50pm on July 6. She was found eight weeks later in Hampshire

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Climate activists ‘won’t leave tunnel until Government makes meaningful promise’

Just Stop Oil campaigners have dug and occupied the tunnel underneath St Clements Way in Grays – a key delivery route for a nearby oil terminal.

Daily Mirror

Missing student nurse Owami Davies found alive 7 weeks after disappearance

Owami Davies left her home in Grays on July 4 and was reported missing to Essex Police on July 6 and was missing ever since - until police confirmed she has been found alive and well today

The Guardian - UK

Owami Davies: timeline from nurse’s disappearance to being found

Davies left her home in Grays, Essex six weeks ago and has now been discovered ‘safe and well’

Daily Record

Police reveal they had contact with student nurse Owami Davies on day she went missing

Owami, aged 24, disappeared from her family home in Grays, Essex, almost six weeks ago.

Daily Mirror

'Trust your instinct' plea issued in desperate search for missing student nurse

Owami Davies, 24, has been missing for over a monthafter leaving her family home in Grays, Essex on July 4, and as then last seen on CCTV three days later

The Independent UK

Woman banned from road after driving at Insulate Britain protesters

Sherrilyn Speid, from Grays, Essex, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving over the incident last October.

Evening Standard

Terrifying CCTV footage captures teenager driving wrong way through Blackwall Tunnel as he is jailed for four years

Johal Rathour, 18, of Grays, Essex, caused the crash in the early hours of August 6 last year and fled the scene

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