... * * * * Latchingdon is to - build £3,000 village hall. * Essex ploughing matches will be held on Boreham Airfield. * * * Blackberry crop in Mid-Essex promises a record. * * * * Gift for a Maldon bride from her friends at work was an alarm clock. * * Girl ...

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... embellish the decoration use coloured foliage and berries, golden privet, piltosporum, Andromeda. Berberis, etc. In beries, blackberried privet, Pernettya, Symphoricarpus or snow berry, the latter is particularly good this year. If you use holly with its red ...