SOUTHEND United centre-back Mark Phillips was thrilled to see his lengthy road to recovery rewarded with a clean sheet and a win against Hereford yesterday. The 28-year-old started just three matches for Blues last season after suffering a
TEACHERS, classroom assistants and even dinner ladies in Essex were subjected to more than 2,000 physical and verbal assaults by pupils last year. The Department for Education said 2,346 pupils were suspended over the school year 2009/10 for launching
POLICE are treating the death of a man in Southend as “unsuspicious” following a post mortem. Officers from the Essex and Kent Serious Crime Directorate had been investigating the incident which happened on Thursday when the dead body of a man was
A MAN from Billericay has appeared in court over various firearm, robbery and burglary charges. Andrew Noble, 26, of York Road, appeared at Southend Magistrates Court on Saturday after he was arrested on Thursday in Basildon for possession of an illegal
A PUBLIC appeal has been launched to safeguard the future of two popular visitors to Southend Pier. Every year the Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer and the classic cruise ship Balmoral run trips from the pierhead. A
TWO Good Samaritans have won praise from police for helping a distressed woman who could not remember where she lived. Greensward Academy pupils Amy Casleton and Meganne Anderson, both 16 and from Hockley, went to the aid of the elderly woman, a resident
ON the surface, Mike Relton had it all. A loving wife, three children, a steady job earning good money. But Mike also had something else – a drink and drug addiction. It robbed him of all he had and very nearly took his life as well.
TEACHERS, classroom assistants and even dinner ladies in Essex were subjected to more than 2,000 physical and verbal assaults by pupils last year. The Department for Education said 2,346 pupils were suspended over the school year 2009/10 for launching
