A mental health charity has moved in to a much-needed new home, thanks to an article in the Essex Chronicle.

Services provided by the Dove Centre, run by Chelmsford and District MIND, were under threat because it was unable to find new premises when the lease ran out on the old base.

The Chronicle highlighted the group’s crisis, and as a result a new home has been found.

Centre manager Sue Haynes said: “We are delighted that thanks to the feature in the Essex Chronicle the Dove Centre has a new home.

“We urgently needed to find somewhere, as we had to move out of our premises in Broomfield Road and just could not find a suitable alternative.

“After the story appeared the West Ham Central Mission approached us to offer the first floor at Sadlers House.

“It is an ideal place in a lovely peaceful, but central, location. It has given us more space, with extra rooms and we have been able to plan the layout to our own specification.”