Man charged with drugs offences after knives and batons seized in Benfleet raid
Police have charged a man with supplying class A drugs and possessing weapons.
Pictures show bus involved in crash with car on south Essex seafront
Images show a bus has crashed head-on into a car on Canvey's seafront this morning. A bus, believed to be a First Bus No.21, crashed head-on into a car around 8.20
'Gangs of yobs' hurl abuse at staff and customers in south Essex leisure centre
Staff working at a popular Canvey leisure centre have been left threatened and intimidated by repeated antisocial behaviour by a "gang of youths."
NHS worker lifts lid on broken roofs and constant leaks at Basildon Hospital
A NHS worker has lifted the lid on worrying broken roofs, constant leaks and damage on wards and in corridors at Basildon Hospital that have gone “unrepaired for years”
Long-standing nurse lays one of final bricks at Southend Hospital's new £8.5m A&E
The brick was placed on what will be the children’s emergency department by nurse matron Jane Ralph who has spent two decades in the emergency department
Patients vow to 'not back down' as campaign to save south Essex GP surgery ramps up
South Green Surgery, in Grange Road, Billericay, has been told it must vacate its current premises by March next year
Train to Southend boarded by police after reports of 'woman threatened with knife'
The Greater Anglia service to Southend Victoria from London Liverpool Street was stopped shortly after arriving at Shenfield station
Family of Southend RAF crew member 'buried under wrong name' in plea for justice
Richard Ashworth, 85, has been campaigning alongside Ray Williams since 2004 in honour of his uncle, Albert Stringer, who died aged just 18 in 1943
Police and firefighters surround sheltered housing after 'yobs set fire to bin store'
Police and firefighters surrounded a sheltered housing block on Canvey after “youths with fireworks” set fire to a bin store next to the building
Investigation launched after dead fish spotted on surface of pond in Shoebury park
Shocked anglers have claimed that between eight and ten dead carp were seen at one of the ponds in Friars Park yesterday.
