End of life care at Southend Hospital has been boosted by a £30,000 donation from a former mayor. Councillor Nigel Folkard, former mayor of Southend, and his fundraising committee has handed over ...

Private renters across Southend could see housing standards improved as part of plans to expand a landlord licensing scheme ...

Thousands of diabetes patients across Basildon have seen their healthcare transformed through flexible one-stop check-up clinics ...

David Burton-Sampson, MP for Southend West and Leigh, welcomed national plans introducing fines for nuisance actions including loud music and vaping. Transport authorities can issue penalties of up to ...

Anderson’s 25-year spell at the county is over after the club decided against offering the 44-year-old a new contract.

Duckett apart, it was a poor batting display, with Tom Banton and Joe Root miscuing to fielders in the ring off Pakistan captain Shaheen Shah Afridi before Brook, fresh from his record-breaking double ...

The incident happened on the M11 southbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 8 near Stansted Airport, resulting in 50-minute delays. Traffic officers attended and there are four miles of congestion ...

Volunteers from a south Essex museum joined colleagues across the country to celebrate decades of firefighting heritage ...

More than 30,000 homes across Scotland are experiencing power outages after Storm Boelo battered the country overnight. As of 11am on Sunday, just in excess of 24,000 Scottish and Southern Electricity ...

A young girl has died after falling from a block of apartments near Barking Town Centre. Emergency services swarmed St Paul’s Road, near Chand House, yesterday (October 24) at 11am following reports ...

Ibrahim Araci will look on with pride when his red, white and blue silks line up at Keeneland as Libertango aims to banish Breeders’ Cup heartache from 12 years ago in the Juvenile Turf Sprint.

A fallen tree has blocked a railway line, causing disruption to train services. The tree is blocking the line between Marks Tey and Sudbury, affecting Greater Anglia trains in both directions.