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An Army dog handler, attached to the Colchester-based 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, is named.
A fifth person is arrested in connection with the death of woman in an arson attack in Essex.
Police arrest 25 people after executing a warrant on a scrap yard as part of a crack-down on metal thefts.
More than 50 people leave their homes when a fire starts in a four-storey block of flats in Southend, Essex.
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