Sea-based charity supporting families facing childhood cancer, is encouraging the community to learn the signs and ...

Forget the tights. Forget the jaunty arrows, the merry men, the romantic gallivanting through Sherwood Forest and the suspiciously well-fed peasants raising tankards to their favourite outlaw. Michael ...

476: Romulus Augustulus abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional end of the Roman Empire. 1571: Catholic rebellion in Scotland. 1682: Astronomer Edmond Halley observes the comet ...

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Redbridge Council is already predicting more than a £5million overspend by the end of the financial year, according to data from May. A report published this week reveals the council’s general fund is ...

A shortage of care workers in Southend, plus a rising number of people who need home care, has forced council bosses to add £5.5 million to next year’s social care budget. The shortage of staff has ...

A popular Grays pub could face fresh licence restrictions or even closure after complaints about anti-social behaviour, noise and suspected criminal activity triggered a formal review. Thurrock ...

Plans to demolish a Wickes Extra store in Barking and build 850 flats have been given the green light by councillors. The development in Hertford Road includes six towers between 18 and 31 storeys ...

Orsett & Thurrock held their nerve and batted out for a share of the Essex League Division Two spoils to leave Old Southendian & Southchurch frustrated at the Peter Butler Oval, Garon Park. The home ...

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Plans are being drawn up for more than 1,300 new homes in a south Essex town. Great Wakering could see around 1,310 new properties built as developers are eyeing up two large plots of land in the town ...

The head judge at east London’s only crown court has been appointed “Honorary Recorder of Redbridge”. The point of the title is to mark the link between the administration and the judiciary and is ...