Chelmsford

American

[chelms-ferd, chelmz-] / ˈtʃɛlms fərd, ˈtʃɛlmz- /

noun

a city in NE Massachusetts.

Chelmsford British

/ ˈtʃɛlmzfəd /

noun

a city in SE England, administrative centre of Essex: electronics, retail; university (1992). Pop: 99 962 (2001)

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He was mistakenly released by HMP Chelmsford in October, before being re-arrested and deported.

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The 36-year-old from Chelmsford, Essex, works as a spacecraft engineer for Airbus in Germany, which has built the propulsion system for the Orion spacecraft on Nasa's Artemis II mission.

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Cleaver said she was always interested in astronomy while a pupil at Chelmsford County High School and later studied physics at Durham University.

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But a judge at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court overruled this, stating the council ignored evidence proving Marsh was a suitable keeper.

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Sascha Dua, from Dunmow in Essex, features on the Channel 5 series The Surgeon, with crews following her on the job around the wards of Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

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