Essex Housing has started work on a 26-home regeneration of taxpayer-owned land that has been empty for 12 years. Contractor Duncan Cameron Hutchinson Ltd has started work on 15 two-bed and 11 one-bed apartments, eight of which will be affordable, on land in Waltham Glen, off...
Time to get the drum kits and the guitars out -the historic Jaywick Martello Tower is hosting FREE music sessions for young people aged 8 to 18 years old. The music sessions will run hourly from 5pm at the Jaywick Martello Tower every Tuesday during term...
Basildon Council has been working closely with the police and Essex Countywide Traveller Unit (ECTU) following a number of unauthorised traveller encampments in the borough since the weekend. Travellers who formed an unauthorised encampment at Hannakins Farm Community Centre last week moved on to Radford Crescent car...
Award winning novelist Kate Johnson, from Stanstead Mountfitchet, has been shortlisted for the second year in a row for the 2018 RoNAs (Romantic Novel Awards) in the Paranormal or Speculative Romantic Novel category, which she won last year. Reverend Richard Coles, broadcaster, dancer and former pop...
Men from Chelmsford are the LEAST ROMANTIC in the UK, according to their own wives and girlfriends. Researchers polled women across the country and discovered men from the Essex town are the least likely to sweep their other half off their feet. In fact, a staggering 79...
A woman who regularly caters for the public is to take part in a new and “daunting” experience later this summer. Chelsea Felgate, 27, from Clacton on Sea, is a full-time chef who lives in Ipswich, and will climb Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, in August. She...
Local boxing sensation Harley Benn has been putting in extra time in the training camp ahead of his first fight of 2018. The Essex native has a fight set for York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday 2nd March, whist his opponent is yet to be...
Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, encourages local secondary schools to go sky high with a national rocketry competition to inspire the next generation of rocket scientists. This week in Parliament Stephen Metcalfe joined the UK school finalists from 2017, to find out...
More than £55,000 has been earmarked for CCTV equipment to improve safety at parks and community facilities as part of Basildon Council’s proposed budget. A £700,000 investment programme for local communities, to be funded from available reserves, includes the installation of CCTV at Wickford Memorial Park,...
TV tough guy Ant Middleton was among 15 participants to take part in Haven House Children’s Hospice’s ‘Chilly Dip’ at Hampstead Heath Lido on Sunday 4 February. The ultimate action hero, famous for fronting SAS: Who Dares Wins, Mutiny and Escape braved the winter chill and...
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