“It’s really gone down the pan,” says 87-year-old Eileen. A pensioner and mother of five long-grown-up children, Eileen and her 88-year-old husband Brian moved to Basildon from Stanmore in north-west ...

Residents in an Essex town have been left divided over a council’s proposals for a huge overhaul of a shopping park, with ...

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Residents in an Essex town have been left divided over a council’s proposals for a huge overhaul of a shopping park, with ...

Basildon Council has slammed an act of vandalism after washing-up liquid was poured into the town centre’s historic fountain just days after it was brought back into operation. The Grade II-listed ...

The word “Basildon” does little to conjure thoughts of paradise. For those who know it as a town in Essex, England, this association could only seem ridiculous. Fifty years ago, however, Basildon—a ...

We are all familiar with the "utopian" towns of the 20th Century. Basildon, Essex, was one of the largest of those New Towns. It was founded in 1949, when Lewis Silkin, the Minister of town and ...

15:08, Thu, Oct 16, 2025 Updated: 15:08, Thu, Oct 16, 2025 The brand-new opening of Basildon's £2.75m pub, Sigered, King of Essex, brings new jobs, investment, and a nod to local history to this ...