A plan to turn a large Victorian house in Chalkwell into assisted living accommodation has been approved. Despite concerns ...

A target set for the East of England Ambulance Service to meet the national standard for its emergency requests has ...

A developer’s bid to slash the number of affordable homes at a controversial development in Shoebury has been thrown out ...

Police have secured a Criminal Behaviour Order for the next two years against a man in. Forty-five-year-old Gareth Atkinson, ...

More than 2,300 houses of multiple occupation are operating across Southend, it has been revealed as a plan to curtail ...

A woman has received £250,000 from Essex County Council after suffering serious injuries when part of a ceiling collapsed on ...

A Chelmsford man has been charged with ten offences including rape. A 48-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday May 27 ...

World Cup icon Sir Geoff Hurst officially opened the Sir Geoff Hurst Academy on Thursday, a new special school located ...

1626: An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people. 1640: Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens dies aged 62.

Vue Cinema in East Square, Basildon, which opened in July last year, has applied to extend its opening hours, saying longer ...

Southend must find space to build 24,000 homes under Government targets, despite the council identifying land for just 9,500 ...

Waltham Forest councillors have elected the new mayor for 2025/26. Tony Bell, a Labour councillor in the Hale End and ...