FEARS have been raised Basildon Council is “rushing” its local plan to achieve Government targets of building 30,000 homes by 2043.

Southend and Basildon residents can expect a warm and sunny weekend as the county basks in the third heatwave of the year ...

FROM drink or drug drivers to speeding motorists, these are 24 south Essex people sentenced at magistrates' courts in recent weeks ...

Boy racers and dangerous drivers that are causing “distress” to residents, in Canvey could be "eradicated" from more areas of ...

ESSEX police are continuing their mission to tackle drink and drug driving, as over ten more people die on county roads compared to last year.

A RECENT County Lines Intensification Week provided police forces across the UK with a chance to show off the wealth of work ...

Prolific painter Nick Schlee works in oils and oil pastels and usually choses The Ridgeway, the river and local landscape for ...

This illustrates a wider point – the work we do brings down knife crime and limits disorder on the streets of Essex.

Stephen Hawking At the age of 22, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a motor neuron disease (MND). Confined to a wheelchair ...

Figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government suggest around 80 new homes started being built in Basildon in the three months to March, while there were none over the same ...

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