Photo: CHRIS WHITE. A cake specially baked for the celebration day
Laughter may not be a sound associated with hospices.
But it is the first sound heard when you open the doors at Farleigh Hospice's day centre in Heybridge.
Founders, patients, volunteers and staff past and present came together to help celebrate 20 years of brightening lives.
Read full report in this week's Maldon and Burnham Standard.
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