SOUTHEND United's goalscoring prowess saw them secure three crucial points at Hereford – and a new club record. But it was just as well Blues' attackers were again in such fine form as their defending left a lot to be desired and led to an
ELLIOT Benyon celebrated becoming a father for the first time by firing Southend United to a vital 3-2 victory at Hereford on Saturday. Benyon bagged his second goal in two games and also set up Neil Harris' opener during a man of the match
A police helicopter was launched after a man ran off from police for a joke. He ran off from police in Carlingford Drive, Westcliff, at 4.30pm today(19) but was stopped about 20 minutes later by police. Following a search, he was released
A PARKS Watch scheme needs more people to help protect our open spaces. Th initative encourages people to report crime, anti-social behaviour or suspicious activity in parks, public gardens, cemeteries and other open spaces. It was set up by Southend
DAVID Cameron has acknowledged the need for more airport capacity in the South East and said ministers would study the case for a new airport in the Thames estuary. The Prime Minister insisted the UK must not give up its status as a major global
A DOG walker whose Rottweiler attacked a young boy as he was paddling in the sea in Southend has pleaded guilty to having a dog dangerously out of control. Rowan Diedrick of Avenue Road, London, was walking two Rottweilers off of the lead along the
TWO taxi drivers were robbed of cash in the space of just two days in Tilbury. In one incident the cabbie was threatened at knifepoint. The first raid happened at 10.15pm on Tuesday March 13 in Thackeray Avenue when the taxi driver, a man in his 50s
AN angry councillor has criticised Castle Point Council colleagues who were granted special privileges to buy 100 Olympic tickets. The authority has been allocated 400 tickets for the London 2012 Olympic mountain biking event at Hadleigh Farm, worth
BASILDON is facing a massive housing shortage which will only get worse, it has been claimed. The number of people on the council waiting list for homes has shot up from 1,749 in 2000, to more than 3,000 in 2010, according to the Home Builders Federation
The request by Kevin Leigh that we have a sensible debate about green belt (March 15) hit a resonant point with me and I couldn’t agree more, However a debate should be open and honest from all sides. It is in no way acceptable for any decision
Southend Council comes in for a lot of unfair criticism, so it was great to see the hard work of the councillors and officers has been recognised. It won the Local Government Chronicle awards Council of the Year despite claims at a recent council
So, the triple wammy, Sadlers Farm roundabout, fog and a serious accident on the A13 London bound. It is 10.15am on Thursday morning and the traffic is still queuing from Sadlers Farm to the bottom of Bread and Cheese Hill with all the surrounding
Residents of Somerset Estate/Bridgewater Drive feel disenfranchised by the expanding airport and hospital parking. Do people realise some of us are being forced to lower our TV aerials, have had telegraph poles reduced in height, trees taken
So Essex and Suffolk Water want to install and charge householders for new pipes in parts of Basildon (March 14). To me this is worthy of the “bully boy” tactics one would expect from some shady operator, “a nice little earner” for the “foreign
AN unsuspecting treasure hunter got a sinister surprise when he found a handgun and stash of live bullets hidden inside a hollowed-out tree trunk. The gun was found in a secluded area of Langdon Nature Reserve, Laindon, by a lone “geocacher
England's major roads could be run by private firms in a deal compared to the sell-off of the water industry under plans to boost infrastructure spending being set out by David Cameron. The Prime Minister has ordered Whitehall experts to investigate
A SHOCKING one in five children are clinically obese by the time they are 11, new figures have revealed. Research conducted by Southend Council has shown more than 18 per cent of Southend Year 6 pupils – about 380 children – were dangerously
THE Olympic flame will be flying in south Essex, and you can see it in your town. On July 6, the flame will begin its tour of the county, with it passing through Rayleigh, Southend, Hadleigh and Basildon to give residents a glimpse of the iconic beacon
IMAGINE two employees who have similar experience, education and skill within their job. However, one earns six thousand pounds less - because she is not a man. It seems crazy that in the 21st century gender is still a huge factor when
YOU cannot put an age on beauty, style and grace as model grandmother Betty Haste is proving. Betty has been enjoying a new found career as a fashion model at the age of 62. The mother of three and grandmother of nine, has been modelling
SMALL traders believe their businesses are being ruined by Southend’s spy cars. Maria Sanders, who runs Kays DIY Centre, in Westcliff, and Dominic Bury, who owns Temple Cafe, on the Temple Farm Industrial Estate, say the CCTV cars are catching out customers
A FORGOTTEN airman from Southend has finally received a military funeral after more than 60 years of being buried in the Malaysian jungle. Corporal Phillip Bryant, 25, died when the RAF Dakota he was on crashed into a ravine in the Malaysian
IN Monday’s Echo sports pages there will be four pages of reports, reaction and match pictures from Southend United’s crucial 3-2 victory at Hereford United. There is also an extensive round up of all the important action from an action packed weekend
