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Wingstop Lakeside new Essex site to open in expansion

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Popular restaurant chain to open third store in Essex as business to expand outreach - Southend Echo

The ambitious expansion plans come a month after Wingstop’s UK arm was taken over by a US private equity firm, for more than £400 million.

Wingstop UK said that at least ten new locations will open in the first half of the year.

These will include a new dine-in restaurant in Lakeside in Thurrock, marking the third in Essex, with sites already in Southend and Chelmsford.

Other restaurants planned are in Swansea, Newcastle, Streatham in south London and Cardigan Fields in Leeds.

The brand will also open a further delivery kitchen in Brighton.

Stansted Airport pistol imported from Florida seized

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Drug dealers jailed after trying to smuggle pistol through Essex airport - Southend Echo

Two drug dealers who attempted to acquire a handgun have been jailed following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

The Taurus self-loading pistol was intercepted and seized by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport on July 27, 2023.

It was hidden inside the packaging for a metallic safe box, along with two empty 9mm magazines.

McNeil Colly, 48, from south London, and Keston Redhead, 35, an asylum seeker from Trinidad and Tobago, were found guilty of importation of a firearm and conspiracy to import class A drugs following a seven-week trial.

Men jailed after trying to smuggle gun through Essex airport

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Two men jailed after trying to smuggle pistol through Stansted Airport - Southend Echo

Two drug dealers who attempted to acquire a handgun have been jailed following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

The Taurus self-loading pistol was intercepted and seized by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport on July 27, 2023.

It was hidden inside the packaging for a metallic safe box, along with two empty 9mm magazines.

McNeil Colly, 48, from south London, and Keston Redhead, 35, an asylum seeker from Trinidad and Tobago, were found guilty of importation of a firearm and conspiracy to import class A drugs following a seven-week trial.

Thorney Bay Village evicted couple moved to 'unsuitable' home

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Couple evicted from south Essex static home park moved into 'unsuitable' home - Southend Echo

Andrew Edhouse, 64 and his partner, Carol Streatham, 66, were hit with an eviction notice from their static home on Canvey’s Thorney Bay Village and were ordered to leave by October 22.

The couple, after failing to move into a flat in Basildon, were place in the Campanile Hotel with no kitchen, fridge or microwave by Castle Point Council – something they appealed against as they feared being forced to pay themselves for their stay.