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Brightlingsea's famous feline Max has been immortalised in print – on a calendar produced by local photographer Stephen Johnson. Max, famous for his friendly nature, adventurous spirit and travels that have seen him end up miles from home, has been bit.ly/3DYLEtQ

A local survivor of childhood sexual abuse has helped to develop a new Essex-wide initiative to support trauma survivors. bit.ly/3T35g4u

The new owners of a swimming pool in the back garden of a house Robinson Road have applied for permission to hire it out for children's swimming lessons. Up until Jethel House changed hands this summer, the indoor pool had been hired out to swimming bit.ly/3WuQmGX

Brightlingsea looks set to have a special public toilet and changing room built for people whose physical or learning disabilities prevent them from using existing disabled facilities. Tendring District Council (TDC) bit.ly/3sAIpm3

Brightlingsea residents who may be struggling with the cost of heating are being offered a warm welcome in St James' Church from next week (November 2). The church's Warm Wednesday initiative will see the building's heating on from 9am to 4.30pm bit.ly/3N8AG8g

The success of businesses run by two Brightlingsea women has been recognised in the Tendring4Growth awards. Sarah Capon, the landlady of Brightlingsea pub The Railway Tavern, and Lucy Weaver, who runs Pink Parrot Pottery in Great Bentley, were both bit.ly/3MMe8Kh

Free school meal vouchers will be available for around 50,000 eligible pupils across Essex this October half-term (24-28 Oct) thanks to renewed funding from the Department for Work and Pensions. The funding of £750,000 has been allocated by the County bit.ly/3DfrrzF

Lovely roundup of a great little festival! bit.ly/3DeYgNq

Organisations supporting children, young people and families in Essex have just two weeks to apply for well-being grants of up to £20,000. Essex Voluntary Services' VVU community grant fund is open to local, ’not for profit’, voluntary or community bit.ly/3ESZXBl

A fish and chip supper event, organised by the Brightlingsea and District RNLI and attended by around 70 people, raised £1,115.25 for the lifeboat charity. The event, in the YMCA on Saturday night (October 15) featured a concert by local shanty group bit.ly/3S9uy0l

Brightlingsea Info reader Pam Gillett managed to catch this little visitor on video. She identified the bird as a Diamond Dove, a native of the deserts of North and Central Australia - so either it'sflown a very long way or, more likely, escaped from bit.ly/3ery3BC

Sheltered housing in Tendring will be used to support patients leaving hospital in a move designed to relieve some of the pressure on health services in North Essex. The initiative, funded by Essex County Council (ECC), bit.ly/3CLghCu

The Suffolk and north east Essex area is outperforming every other area in England for its delivery of the autumn Covid booster vaccination programme. Latest figures published (October 10) for the NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board ( bit.ly/3g191d3

Tendring residents will soon be able to enjoy free festive events – and the Colchester Film Festival – thanks to Essex County Council’s (ECC) Arts and Cultural Fund. bit.ly/3STirpc

Tendring residents will soon be able to enjoy free festive events – and the Colchester Film Festival – thanks to Essex County Council’s (ECC) Arts and Cultural Fund. bit.ly/3STirpc

The Environment Agency (EA) has suggested that the gassy smell that has plagued the town over recent months might be coming from drains or pumping stations. In a briefing note released on September 29, the EA says that "no odours were detected that we bit.ly/3CClQmL

Hundreds of people enjoyed an afternoon of fresh air and fun at Brightlingsea's first Fresh Air Festival on Sunday (October 2). bit.ly/3Edep6T

Hundreds of people enjoyed an afternoon of fresh air and fun at Brightlingsea's first Fresh Air Festival on Sunday (October 2). bit.ly/3Edep6T

"History has to start somewhere," Brightlingsea Mayor Mick Barry told guests at the first Brightlingsea Oyster Feast – which marked the first harvesting of Brightlingsea native oysters for decades. The feast – a lunch at Brightlingsea Sailing Club on bit.ly/3ya5fEn

"History has to start somewhere," Brightlingsea Mayor Mick Barry told guests at the first Brightlingsea Oyster Feast – which marked the first harvesting of Brightlingsea native oysters for decades. The feast – a lunch at Brightlingsea Sailing Club on bit.ly/3ya5fEn