TRAINS have been delayed or cancelled after a vehicle crashed into a bridge in Barking. Train services between Southend and London Fenchurch Street are facing alterations and cancellations. Passangers are warned that delays are expected.
A MAN was rushed to hospital after his car crashed into a lamppost outside a college. A grey Toyota Carina flipped onto its roof after smashing into a lamppost at a crossing outside Futures college on Southchurch Boulevard, Southend at 5pm this evening
SOUTHEND Council is to spend £75,000 altering hundreds of seafront parking bays following a barrage of criticism from motorists. The controversial diagonal parking spaces were only laid out last year, when the council spent £150,000 improving Western
THE firm running a community hall has come under fire following claims it has fallen into serious decline. Sovereign Leisure took over Hadleigh Hall, in John Burrows Recreation Ground, off Rectory Road, from Castle Point Council in 2005, but users say
FIREFIGHTERS are still at the scene of a devastating fire in High Street, Billericay. They are continuing to damp down the building after the blaze this morning, which damaged four businesses and caused a roof to collapse. The street
Southend winger Ryan Hall has been released on bail after being jailed for weeks. Hall, 23, was jailed on Thursday after admitting an affray outside Storm nightclub. Solicitors acting for Hall made an application for him to be bailed ahead of an appeal
A CHARITY has been handed a financial lifeline after its future looked in doubt. Southend Mencap has been given a £14,048 Big Society grant from the Government, dispelling fears a cash crisis might force it to fold. The money has come from a £3.6million
A CHARITY has been handed a financial lifeline after its future looked in doubt. Southend Mencap has been given a £14,048 Big Society grant from the Government, dispelling fears a cash crisis might force it to fold. The money has come from a £3.6million
HAVING survived a goalkeeping type X Factor selection at the start of the season, Rhys Evans is thrilled to finally be rebuilding his career with Southend United. The 29-year-old shot-stopper has started the last eight games between the sticks
SOUTHEND Rugby Club will be looking to make amends for their worst performance of the season when they head to Clifton tomorrow. The Seasiders lost to the Bristol based club 33-26 back at Warners Bridge in October. And their head coach Andy Holloway
BLUES boss Paul Sturrock feels Morecambe will be difficult opponents for his team when they make their first ever visit to the Globe Arena tomorrow. The Shrimps saw off table-topping Chesterfield last weekend. And Sturrock feels that
When the BBC needed a person who embodied the concepts of feminism, academia, equality and creativity to counter balance the views of BNP leader Nick Griffin, Bonnie Greer was put in the hot seat. The Anglo-American playwright and OBE, appeared opposite
WESTCLIFF continue their charge for promotion with a trip to Letchworth Garden City tomorrow. The Aviation Way based club are currently 13 points clear at the top of the London One North table, having won 19 of their 20 games this term. But Westcliff
GRAHAM Coughlan will again be playing a big part for Southend United both on and off the pitch at Morecambe tomorrow. The experienced centre back is again expected to line up in the Blues back four. And the team will also go in to the
ESSEX Pirates again look set to be understrength for tonight’s trip to Glasgow Rocks. The Southend based side have injury doubts over England internationals Taner Adu and Sam Toluwase, while Ronnie Baker is also unable to travel. But coach Tim Lewis
SOUTH Essex MPs have backed a new Government Bill which will finally see clamping on private land outlawed following a long-running Echo campaign. Six south Essex MPs supported the Protection of Freedoms Bill which received a second reading in the House
FIREFIGHTERS have been tackling a High Street blaze which has seen a shop gutted and its roof collapse. Ten fire crews have been in Bilericay High Street since about 5am, today, after a fire at the Oxfam shop, which spread to three other buildings
A WOMAN is warning shoppers to be aware of a scam after thieves stole her purse while she gave directions. Pat Baldock, 68, of Deneway, Vange, said the two crooks got away with more than £600 following the ruse, which took place in the car park of Tesco
A FORMER police chief has put pen to paper and published his first novel. However, Michael Benning, 63, who served with Essex Police for 31 years, has not written a detective novel or a crime fiction. The first-time author, who was Southend
COMMUTERS have been blamed for clogging up parking spaces in Laindon. They are taking the parking spaces at the Laindon Shopping Centre and health centre in High Road in order to avoid paying £5.50 a day at nearby Laindon station in Station
SOUTHEND United manager Paul Sturrock insists he will stand by the club’s jailed winger Ryan Hall. The 23-year-old will spend the next 10 weeks behind bars after being charged with affray following an incident on the club’s Christmas party
A VETERAN fundraiser was joined by a survivor of the 7/7 terrorist attacks at the opening of a new rehabilitation suite in Southend Hospital for patients who have lost limbs. Joyce Long, 81, from Thundersley, who helped raise £4,000 towards
POLICE in Essex could take industrial action if cuts are made to their pay and conditions. The stark warning came from Tony Rayner, chairman of the Essex Police Federation, who launched a scathing attack on Home Secretary Theresa May.
Second World War veteran Bert Wolstenholme, 88, says: “One night, when we got back, we counted 79 holes in the Lancaster. I don’t know what it was about us, but we always seemed to get the dirtiest jobs.” For three years, Bert flew missions
A CHURCH can finally be rebuilt using fundraisers’ money after councillors gave it the go ahead. Friends of St Michael’s Church, in Daws Heath, spent two years raising the £400,000 to replace the current building – a rotting, timber former
RHYTHM and blues legends Dr Feelgood are taking to the stage to support Havens Hospices. The Canvey band’s original singer Lee Brilleaux was cared for by the hospice before he died of cancer in 1994. To raise money for the charity, Rock for Haven’s
SCHOOLCHILDREN are being offered a chance to name key parts of south Essex’s Olympic mountain bike track. Essex County Council is inviting schools to come up with suggested names for four main features of the track, in Hadleigh Castle Country
