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Supporting Content

• Discover incredible stories about life in Essex during WW1

  

• Appeal for volunteers to help Sudanese refugees

  Hundreds have arrived in the UK via Stansted Airport, and help is needed.

  Duration: 7:10

• Hundreds without phone or internet in Danbury

  A vehicle crashed into the exchange box, causing the internet and phonelines to go down.

  Duration: 6:24

• MP calls for more support for Colchester Zoo

  The Conservative MP for Witham Priti Patel spoke about Colchester Zoo in Parliament.

  Duration: 10:50

• Tree lands on cars in supermarket car park

  Seven cars were damaged when the tree fell in the Tesco car park in Chelmsford.

  Duration: 0:54
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• Part of the Family - Dave Monk's Story

• About the programme

  Tune in to Dave every weekday afternoon between 4pm and 7pm with the biggest Essex stories of the day.

  Our Â鶹Éç Essex roving reporters will be out and about in the county to bring you breaking news as it happens. All this plus great music, good humour and your stories.

  Many use Â鶹Éç local radio as a starting point for their broadcasting careers, but Dave regards it as an end in itself. He has had a varied background; including owning his own firm of solicitors, a wine bar and bistro, run a disco and worked in nightclubs, as well as lecturing in law.

  Dave is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Essex.

  To take part in the programme please call 0800 111 40 41 (freephone) or text 81333, start with the word 'Essex'.

  When you text 81333 you will be charged at your standard message rate.

  You can email Dave anytime using  essex.monk@bbc.co.uk

• Pub Quiz competition - The Rules

  Dave Monk will advise and remind the listener what time the lines open. 

  Here's the rules…

  • To enter, ring 0800 111 4041 - the first person to call through gets to answer the first question, if they get it wrong we move on until we get a correct answer.
  • Whoever gets the most correct answers in a row each week will win a glass tankard.
  • If two or more people get the most correct answers they all get a tankard. We'll send the tankard in the post - so will need your address.
  • After "last orders" - we don't accept calls but everyone who gets through before that will get a go.
  • As the "Pub Landlord", Dave's answers are final.
  • As ever, you only get one chance each week - no repeat callers please.