There’s a mystery afoot in Essex. Don’t call for Scotland Yard. Nobody’s car has been spray-painted, yobs aren’t congregating around the village cross, the fields are free of flytipping.What has the people of Colchester talking is philanthropy. An anonymous donor has been stuffing hundreds of pounds through letterboxes, with shades of the returned convict Magwitch’s secret support of Pip in Great Expectations.

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