Staff at leading Essex based solicitors Thompson Smith & Puxon, were ‘in the pink’ when they swapped business suits for something more colourful to help raise funds for Cancer Research UK.

The widow of a keen footballer who died of heart failure on the football pitch has won undisclosed damages against Southend Hospital NHS Trust. Edward Patten from Southend-on-Sea in Essex died on 23rd March 2002, a few days before his 53rd Birthday during an amateur match for his team Westcliff Football Club. His son Ben (aged 15 at the time) was playing in the match when his father died.

120 solicitors from firms in Suffolk and north Essex gathered for the annual Suffolk and North Essex Law Society (SNELS) dinner held at ColchesterTown Hall. The event was hosted by SNELS President for 2005-2006, Mark Cooksley, a Partner at Essex firm Thompson Smith & Puxon.

UK record holder and Colchester based athlete Sarah Claxton, the fastest British women’s hurdler, has helped her local sponsor, solicitors Thompson Smith & Puxon, to launch a new healthcare package by Westfield Health for employees.

A Colchester company, Computerwise Limited, which was established twenty-five years ago by Doreen and Tony Friedlander to service the needs of the business community when PC’s were in their infancy, has combined its business operations with TMB solutions Ltd under a common holding company. TMB Solutions is a Hampshire-based accounting software reseller.