Stories for 10 March 2002

Essex Sport

Soccer: Worcester City 1-1 Chelmsford City (Dr Martens League Premier Division)

Chelmsford returned from St George's Lane with a useful point on Saturday, holding hosts Worcester City to a 1-1 draw.  more...

Soccer: Canvey Island 3-3 Bedford Town (Ryman League Premier Division)

Canvey's title hopes suffered another setback on Saturday as Bedford left Park Lane with a deserved point in a 3-3 thriller.  more...

Soccer: Chesham United 3-5 Grays Athletic (Ryman League Premier Division)

Grays kept up their superb recent form, rocketting five past Chesham United in a Buckinghamshire goal spree.  more...

Soccer: Purfleet 3-2 Braintree (Ryman League Premier Division)

Captain Jimmy McFarlane clinched the Essex derby on Saturday yesterday with an injury time winner for Purfleet against Braintree Town.  more...

Soccer: Gravesend and Northfleet 1-0 Billericay Town (Ryman League Premier Division)

Billericay gave a good account of themselves on Saturday though eventually fell to Ryman League title favourites Gravesend & Northfleet.  more...

Soccer: Heybridge Swifts 0-2 Boreham Wood (Ryman League Premier Division)

A goal either side of half-time saw visitors Boreham Wood record a deserved 2-0 success at Heybridge on Saturday.  more...

Soccer: Ryman League Round-Ups (Divisions Two and Three)

Great Wakering Rovers stayed third in Ryman Division Two with the top three all winning on Saturday.   more...

Soccer: Bishop's Stortford 3-0 Thame United (Ryman League Division One)

There were no troubles for Bishop's Stortford on Saturday, with a comfortable 3-0 win against Thame - a result which sees them climb to 2nd in the Division One table.  more...

Soccer: Walton and Hersham 1-1 Harlow Town (Ryman League Division One)

Harlow Town's promotion hopes faded on Saturday as Marcus Rose scrambled in an injury time equaliser for Walton & Hersham in a 1-1 draw at Stompond Lane.  more...

Essex,Basildon,Southend News

Hospital Workers Celebrate

STAFF at Basildon and Southend Hospitals were celebrating today after scoring five stars each in a guide to hospital services across the UK. The two Essex hospitals featured in The Mail on Sunday's Good Hosptial Guide - which covered every hospital in the country. The top scoring hospitals over all were the Royal London and St Bartholomew's hospitals, which are jointly managed as the Barts and London NHS, the two hospitals both scored ten stars. Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, and Oldchurch Hospital, in Romford, both achieved on star. Full report in Monday's Echo   more...

Basildon Babe Denise Van Outen in top 100 of the most beautiful women of all time

BASILDON babe, Denise Van Outen has been voted among the top third of the 300 most beautiful women of all Time. The former Big Breakfast presenter, who recently landed a part in the New York hit musical, Chicago, came 65th in the Sunday Express survey. Elizabeth Taylor was voted number one beauty of all time by the fifty-strong juding panel, which included Peter Stringfellow, Alan Titchmarsh and Vanessa Feltz. Full report in Monday's Echo.   more...