Free parking in Wickford is set to return after councillors vote through alternative funding at a heated area committee meeting.

A JUNIOR school is celebrating after receiving the highest grade possible from Ofsted inspectors. Hadleigh Junior School, in Church Road, received the top “outstanding” rating this week following an ...

A PARKING scheme brought in to protect residents’ parking spaces from beachgoers is damaging businesses, it has been claimed ...

Bob Mays, from Leigh, was invited to the St George’s Day reception with the PM by Leigh and Southend MP David Burton Sampson yesterday ...

A community pub in Leigh is partnering with an experienced catering company to launch an exciting new food menu after being brought back from ...

Two brothers from south Essex are set to race across Europe in a car decorated as Big Bird from Sesame Street in a bid to raise money for charity. John and Mark Everett, from Leigh and Wickford, will ...

A police watchdog has complained to Ofcom over an episode of Panorama about the shooting of Chris Kaba. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had gone to the broadcast regulator ...

An inquest will be held on Thursday into the death of a 10-year-old girl who was killed in a mudslide while she was on a school trip. Leah Harrison was killed at Carlton Bank on the edge of the North ...

A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed on Wednesday evening. Moises Sandoval Mendoza received a lethal injection at the state ...

Carlos Santana has postponed a second Texas concert after testing positive for Covid-19. The guitar virtuoso’s official Facebook page said he is scrubbing Thursday night’s stop on his Oneness Tour at ...

The announcement comes as the UK Government and International Energy Agency hosts a summit on the future of energy security.

A man with a life-threatening peanut allergy is living a near-normal life after taking part in a “life-changing” study which gradually saw him exposed to nuts. Richard Lassiter’s allergy is so severe ...