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Volunteers’ Week is a national celebration of all the people that offer their time to become volunteers. It is always 1st to 7th June - and this year is the 25th anniversary of the week. 
There are hundreds of celebrations throughout the county including a Volunteers Fair at the Kursaal in Southend-on-Sea on 5th June from [...]

The following report has been received from MaryEllen Tribby, the CEO & Publisher of Early to Rise. The information and video is provided by Jenny Thompson of the Health Sciences Institute. These are American companies and the figures are based on studies in the US.
But our young girls in the UK are also being offered [...]

Would you like to Change Your World? Then why not start by making a pledge to swap one of your normal car trips and walk, cycle, take public transport or car-share instead?
Change Your World week is 29th June to 4th July and from 1st June you can make your pledge at www.changeyourworld.org.uk. If everybody did [...]

Did you join in the Big Garden Birdwatch? Over half a million people took part in the survey in January - and now the RSPB are launching a similar campaign to monitor ALL the wildlife in our gardens.
All you need to do is spend one hour somewhere between the 8th and 14th June and count [...]

With honey bee numbers falling by 10-15% over the past two years, Defra and the Welsh Assembly have joined forces with the bee keeping industry to draft a 10 year plan to reverse the trend by helping beekeepers adopt effective bio-security.
Publication of the ‘healthy bees’ plan follows the investment of an additional £4.3m to gather [...]

Breakfast cereals containing huge amounts of sugar, particularly those targeted at children, have always been one of our pet hates. We are delighted that the consumer magazine Which? has now named and shamed 100 big brand cereals, all available in supermarkets throughout the country.
Bearing in mind that the following relates to refined sugar (not natural fruit [...]

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is delighted to announce that recycling in the town has now reached 40%. A large part of this is due to the new food waste collection which has diverted 1,800 tonnes of food away from landfill since the scheme started in October 2008.
And just to make sure you can continue recycling, extra [...]

According to US scientists, certain bacteria can be used to break down plant-based (cellulosic) biomass into sugars and ferment it into ethanol without the need for specifically grown feedstock.
Ethanol provides the bulk of biomass fuels, but certain lobbies are concerned that the amount of land being converted to growing corn for the purpose of producing [...]

More research evidence has emerged that demonstrates homeopathy is more effective than conventional medicine in the treatment of chronic disease. 
The study found that patients with chronic diseases, ranging from headache, low back pain, depression, sleeping disorders, sinusitis, atopic dermitis, allergic rhinitis and asthma, benefited more from homeopathy than conventional medicine. The German researchers studied 315 [...]

Many of you will know that we do not support the regular mammography screening program, although we fully recognise diagnostic mammography as the ‘gold standard’ for evaluating and clarifying pre-existing cancer suspicions.  Our concerns are further fuelled by the current publicity in Essex to increase the breast screening programme. Why we wonder is the NHS not looking at the safer, [...]