Heavy rain greeted groups who clustered on Garvaghy Road in Portadown ahead of the scheduled start of the parade on Sunday.

The first major blow came in October 1973, when the Rayleigh Rockets held their final speedway meeting. Supporters said ...

People hoping to get onto the property ladder are being invited to a free event in Basildon designed to make buying a first home easier to understand ...

Plans for a new Corringham train station have been included in Thurrock Council’s draft Transport Strategy, as officials look to expand transport links and support major housing growth over the next ...

Shahida Sarwar told Essex Police she was cocaine dealing to fund car repairs when neighbours women vandalised her car because ...

Organisers of a new market in Hadleigh have submitted an application for a premises licence. Hadleigh Market Ltd has ...

Echo archive photos offer a nostalgic glimpse of Southend's retail scene in the 2000s and early 2010s. Before the rise of ...

Westcliff heroin dealer Ron Whyte was caught with a gun after attacking a Southend man and leaving him permanently scarred.

The Palestinian death toll from the almost three-year Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 74,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. While a ceasefire which took effect last October 10 has halted the ...

Local leaders will get stronger powers to take possession of empty and derelict homes so they can be brought back into use, Angela Rayner has announced. The Housing Secretary revealed the plans on the ...

According to the Tories, no foreign criminals have been sent back to Iran, Sudan, Eritrea or Syria despite 839 of their ...

I took a drive over the Gallows Corner flyover - and after 15 months of build-up it was over in less than a minute.