Drink and needle spiking could become a key consideration in licensing applications under proposed changes to Thurrock’s ...

An alleged £500,000 fraud against Southend Council’s adult social care service is among 85 cases currently being handled by ...

Southend Council is racing to clear a backlog of around 1,800 social housing repairs by Christmas as it works to ...

It comes as Rochford District Council is working its draft local plan which will determine where the district council thinks ...

A ground-breaking Essex secondary school says a major redevelopment project will help create a “modern school that inspires ...

Fresh talks aimed at restoring the Tilbury-Gravesend ferry have been hailed as a positive step forward with key organisations ...

A taxi driver who drove into his passenger moments after dropping him to his Basildon home has been found guilty ...

Celebrity Masterchef winner and RuPaul’s drag race champion Ginger Johnson is back with a brand new show, Show Pony, which ...

Tottenham Hotspur recorded their first Premier League victory of the season, at the seventh attempt, by seeing off ...

A banned driver behind the wheel of a Porsche which had been involved in an earlier pursuit was left with nowhere to run thanks to Essex Police officers and a police helicopter. On the afternoon of ...

More than 40 binmen across Havering will strike for five days over what they call unbearable working conditions. The Unite ...

An east London NHS trust has secured £42m in funding to rebuild the A&E department at a struggling hospital in ...