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 ...

A long-standing wellbeing charity fears it may be forced to shut its doors in a matter of weeks after a £75,000 electricity bill "wiped ...

A mental health trust has made "some improvements" to a few of its services, inspectors said. The Care Quality Commission ...

Chocolate contains theobromine which is a substance that is poisonous to dogs as they struggle to metabolise it.

This week, think tank Centre for Cities published its latest retail report, revealing a stark North and South divide in the ...

A Reform councillor has been suspended from her job with an MP after being charged with assault following an incident at a ...

Most Conservative MPs will not be welcome in Reform UK, Lee Anderson has insisted. The Reform chief whip and MP for Ashfield ...

A TV series filmed at Dogs Trust in Basildon has won a prestigious award for the "powerful spotlight" it put on the "growing ...

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 ...

The Standard has found that more than 30 primaries in the capital could shut or merge before September — and that’s just the ...