THE reading skills of the poorest pupils in Essex are worse than before the pandemic and nearly a fifth below the overall rate for all pupils.
COLCHESTER’S Labour MP has said she will support Essex County Council’s proposal to give £1m to the most vulnerable to make up for the scrapped Winter Fuel Allowance.
CLACTON hay fever sufferers now have to endure a 200-day season according to a new report which blames the increase on climate change.
ESSEX County council has been accused of “green washing” the public over their expected controversial incinerator in Braintree as new analysis find that giant incinerators is now the “dirtiest way” the UK generates power.
A TOTAL of thirty children in Essex who have been ordered to be adopted due to their safety are waiting for prospective parents as National Adoption Week ends.
James Cracknell, 52, had moved to Colchester to fight for the election
A ‘SAVE the Wick campaigner’ has sent a cease and desist letter regarding Birch Brook near Rowhedge – claiming that a new fence could have been moved five meters to avoid species destruction.
MERSEA Island’s Boxing Day swimming tradition is to end after twenty years due to stricter insurance requirements which one councillor said is stopping people from doing things they have
A HOSPITAL trust received a gross income of £2,525,138 from patients and relatives paying to park between 2022 and 2023.
A MANNINGTREE bookshop has been included in a new literary ‘slow travel guide’ which celebrates independent businesses across the country.
