A FIREFIGHTER gave a dog mouth to mouth after a fire on Canvey. Crews were called to Jarvis Road just after 3pm today when the kitchen of the house caught light. When they arrived, they found the 39-year-old woman and her Jack Russell dog, Ruby
A MAN has been told to pay back more than £200,000 to investors who bought into a land-banking scheme that didn’t happen. Aaron Walker, 30, of The Parkway, Canvey, could face personal bankruptcy after defying a High Court order to hand over £203,100.
BASILDON Council is facing a huge bill after being accused of negligence over the 2009 Felmores blaze. An insurance company is trying to recover money from the council following the fire, which saw eight homes destroyed. Swan Housing
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THE owners of a golf club have been told to remove a marquee in their grounds after neighbours complained. Rochford District Council has told the club to take down the marquee within three months and it has to stop holding any events in it immediately
SUCH has been the manner of Southend United’s season that it somehow seems quite apt that the drama will continue until the very last league game. This has been one of the most eventful campaigns in the club’s history with training ground bust-ups, heated
I welcome the sprucing up of the area of scrubland just as you come over the Benfleet bridge on to Canvey, with six new trees and a garden (April 25). However, I find it an odd decision by Castle Point Council. It has recently been decided by
I recently launched the Swim 22 fundraising challenge for Diabetes UK, and urge swimmers to swim the equivalent of the English Channel at their local swimming pool. Please help us if you can by signing up at www. diabetes.org.uk/swim22 Kate
There have been a number of letters recently about a use for the old Woolworths/TJ Hughes store in Southend High Street. It seems to me one thing we are desperately lacking in Southend is a good market. I personally believe we should have a
Steve Askham, suggests we need a councillor for common sense (April 24). Albert Einstein once described common sense as “a collection of prejudices, usually obtained before the age of 18”. If this is correct, I suggest we are already oversubscribed
The local election leaflet I have just received from the English Democrats is full of scaremongering. If one were to believe everything it says, we are about to be overrun with mosques, paedophiles and those of the Islamic faith. Looking at their
Following the ruling won by Roger Hutchinson regarding the misuse of the spy car by Southend Council, does this pave the way for full refunds? My traffic infringement most certainly could have been dealt with by my neighbourhood traffic warden
A WOMAN confronted a burglar who forced his way into her Southend home. The homeowner, a woman in her 30s heard a loud noise as the man forced open the front doors of the house in Shaftesbury Avenue, causing £700 worth of damage. The burglar fled
HOPES of saving traditional flood warning sirens in Castle Point have been dashed after Essex County Council announced it would not put them back into use. Nine flood sirens in Canvey and one in Benfleet have been thrown on the scrapheap in favour of
A WOMAN was threatened with a screwdriver during a terrifying robbery. The 39-year-old was walking in Tallis Road, Laindon when she was approached by two men. They pulled the woman's hair before steailng her bag and bracelet and threatening her with
ROB Swaine believes his teammates have the ability to get to the Conference South play-offs next season. Talking after being joined by Greg Oates to lift the Ryman Premier League trophy, the Billericay club captain felt the side could keep going up.
GOALS from Ashley Hawkins and Dan Trenkel gave Rovers back-to-back wins for the first time this season and lifted them off the foot of the table on Saturday night. But fellow strugglers Ware saw their game with Waltham Forest rained off on both Saturday
CONCORD concluded their roller-coaster season with defeat at an in-form Stones side who will take some stopping in the play-offs. But it was a decent performance from the Beachboys, and there was a glimpse of the future when 16-year-old Sammy Knott —
A CARNIVAL waltzed into New Lodge on Saturday that even a heavy defeat and the rain did not dampen. In front of 1,145 fans, Billericay were handed the Ryman Premier League trophy after a 4-1 loss at home to Lowestoft Town. Despite the reverse, Billericay
CANVEY finished their campaign on a high with their best home win of the season. There was also a fantastic send-off for Gulls legend Steve Ward who was made captain for the day and started at centre-back in what was his last game for the club. And
SAM Allardyce insisted West Ham have banished the poor home form which cost them automatic promotion as they head into the play-offs. The Hammers won a club record 13 matches on the road this season, but dropped a whopping 28 points at Upton Park, with
SOUTHEND United are set for a final day shoot-out to decide who will secure the final automatic promotion position in League Two this season. Following Blues’ 2-0 victory at Oxford United at the weekend, they are now just a point behind both third placed
HUNDREDS of pigeons have been shot dead on a Laindon estate after their numbers got out of control. The flock has been plaguing the area around King Edward Road after their previous home, the Royal Court tower blocks, were demolished. The birds used
A HOSPITAL has been criticised for “shortfalls” in its care of a mentally-ill woman in the lead-up to her death. Carole Brook, 53, of St Marks Field, Rochford, died of multiple injuries after being hit by a train at Wickford Station, on
AMBITIOUS £15.5million plans to revamp a secondary school with modern new facilities could get under way within months. Greensward Academy, in Hockley, is set to submit a planning application to Rochford District Council. This will propose
BRAZEN thieves stopped for a bite of cake after breaking into a Westcliff home in the middle of the day. They made their way into the property in Park Street by kicking down the door, before eating the owners cakes and fleeing with her engagement and
A NEWSAGENTS sold first-class stamps for 55p, instead of 46p. Big News, in London Road, Leigh, has now been given an official warning by Royal Mail. The Echo was tipped off about the stamps being sold at a higher price before today,
FAMILIES had to be evacuated following a house fire in Westcliff>. Firefighters were called to Fairfax Drive at about 2pm yesterday. Police sealed off the road from Prittlewell Chase and houses on either side were evacuated. The
SELF-CONFESSED gadget lover Helen Henley enjoys nothing more than buying the latest piece of technology. At the moment she has an iPad, iPhone, MacBook, MacBook Pro and a high tech digital camera. She is one of a growing number of woman
A GOALKEEPER left partially paralysed in a late-night attack made an emotional return to his club to help his team-mates celebrate their first title win in 32 years. Nicky Morgan, 26, who kept goal for Billericay Town, recieved a standing ovation from
A YOUNG mum has told how she was trapped by fire and forced to drop her week-old baby into the arms of a rescuer. Marie Courtnell, 20, dropped Bailey Courtnell-Froshtick two feet from a second-storey kitchen window as a fire raged inside a
A CLUBBER has been left with a broken jaw after he was attacked at a Southend nightspot. The 21-year-old victim was out on a night out with friends at Churchills, in in Tylers Avenue, when he was punched in the face. The blow broke his
