A small town in Italy has transformed itself from a declining community to vibrant tourist destination with 140 colorful ...

A “GHOST town” is set to be revived with the opening of a £3.6million Wetherspoons pub. The King of Essex will be built over two floors of a former Poundworld in Basildon, and is expected to ...

A “snarky” piece in The Economist has branded Basildon a “failed new town,” claiming it is “hard to imagine why anyone would choose to visit” – sparking a war of words between ...

A "really exciting" 5,000-seater arena could be built in an Essex town centre, with "people like Micky Flanagan" tipped as potential headliners. Basildon Council leader Gavin Callaghan is pushing ...

New £3.6m plan to turn Poundworld into giant Wetherspoons and revive UK 'ghost town' Basildon will welcome the biggest Wetherspoon yet in late November this year.

The wild-west themed amusement park, formerly known as Ghost Town in the Sky, may soon have a buyer.

O n an island in the middle of San Francisco Bay sits a series of abandoned wooden buildings, slumped over and sinking into the ground. They’re all that remain of the town called Drawbridge — often ...

DRAMATIC new images have been released revealing what Basildon will look like after a major overhaul of the town centre.

Basildon, which inspired the 2017 film New Town Utopia, has suffered from an "unfair reputation" in the past but Mr Blake told how plans are afoot to "regenerate the whole area".

Basildon, which inspired the 2017 film New Town Utopia, has suffered from an "unfair reputation" in the past but Mr Blake told how plans are afoot to "regenerate the whole area".