Andy Coulson, who had just resigned as David Camerton’s Communbications Director amid allegations of phone-tapping, grew up in Wickford.
To quote the Guardian:
Born in 1968, an early childhood spent in an Essex council house and subsequent education at a local comprehensive in Wickford put his origins at odds with the profile of the majority of senior journalists, let alone the privileged backgrounds of most other members of David Cameron’s inner circle.