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  • Liam praying Blues get to taste Wembley

    SOUTHEND United striker Liam Dickinson is keen to play a part in another promotion party at Wembley — despite currently being sidelined with a broken ankle. The 26-year-old forward will be again watching from the stands when Blues face Crewe

  • Man charged following police raid

    A MAN will appear in court next month charged with a number of offences following a police raid at a bar and tanning salon on Canvey. Officers raided Charlies Bar and State of the Art Tanning on Long Road on March 16 and arrested five people. Three

  • Phillips: Don't rule me out

    SOUTHEND United’s player of the year Mark Phillips is refusing to rule himself out of Wednesday night’s semi-final second leg clash against Crewe Alexandra at Roots Hall. The centre-back was forced to come off midway through the second half

  • Jupp: I'm holding out for a new hero

    DUNCAN Jupp wants a member of the current Southend United side to follow in his footsteps and become a play-off hero. The former Blues right-back memorably ended a 10-year goal drought to score in the 2005 play-off final victory over Lincoln City at

  • Southend prepares for Diamond Jubilee celebrations

    A HOST of Jubilee themed events have been planned for Southend. The town will be decked in red, white and blue, celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in style with a host of street parties between June 2 and 4. A total of 67 temporary road closures

  • CCTV released of key witness in rape investigation

    POLICE want to speak to this man who is a key witness in a Southend rape investigation. The attack happened on a grassy verge of the cliffs between Clifftown Parade and Southend seafront between 3 and 5am on May 11. A 21-year-old woman from Grays

  • It is all smiles at mini-soccer finals

    THE South East Essex Primary Mini Soccer League held its finals in the blazing sunshine at Great Wakering Rovers ground at Burroughs Park on Sunday. And after weeks of rain, cloud and drizzle the weather gods smiled on the youngsters who played their

  • Senior boss happy with FA shake-up

    ROB Errington welcomed the latest FA recommendations on restructuring the non-league but says the plans in Essex will only work with an influx of teams from East Anglia. The FA’s League Committee has said in its final report it has scrapped plans to

  • War plane find brought back stories of lost uncle

    A MAN whose RAF pilot uncle disappeared after his plane crashed into the desert has spoken of his astonishment that the wreck has been found – 70 years on. As a lad, John Pryor-Bennett listened in awe as his grandparents, aunts and uncles told stories

  • Legal eagles take off to put care before the cash

    THERE is a lot of warmth and laughter in the offices of the solicitors’ firm run by Mandi Wilson and Sue Kessler. It is this grounded approach which has led them to launch an unusual venture that is more about helping people than making money. Both

  • Fire victim’s family touched by support

    THE family of a young man who was badly burnt in a fire at his home have thanked the community who have rallied round to help. Stephen Everett, 21, is still in intensive care at Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, after the accident in West Road, Shoebury

  • Sailor airlifted to hospital after becoming ill at sea

    A CREW member on a boat had to be airlifted to hospital whilst out at sea after becoming ill. The sailor was taken to Southend Hospital on Monday afternoon (May 14) when the RAF Rescue Helicopter from Wattisham, in Suffolk, was called out at about

  • Fishing boat run aground off Shoebury coast

    A FISHING boat had to be rescued after going adrift off the Shoebury coast on Monday morning (May 14). Thames Coastguard received reports the 25ft vessel had broken free from it’s moorings at about 10.20am. The coastguard crew from Southend were

  • Have you space for my art?

    ARTIST Sandra Ehlers lives and breathes her work. Over the past decade she has been busy creating a huge number of pieces, which have accumulated, and of late, packed her home to the rafters. For this reason Sandra, who lives in Sutton Road

  • KFC protesters smell the scent of victory

    A RESIDENTS’ campaign to block plans for a 24-hour KFC drive-through may have paid off. Basildon Council planning officers have recommended council chiefs refuse permission to build the new fast food restaurant on the former Laindon Hotel site

  • Southend Independent threatens deal to keep Tories in power

    A FURIOUS councillor has offered to hand power back to the Tories in Southend after his leadership bid was scorned. Ron Woodley, an Independent councillor for Thorpe, said he was willing to strike a deal with the Conservatives that would mean the party

  • New Canvey nightspot plan for former DIY shop site

    A COMPANY has submitted plans to reopen a disused shop on Canvey as a bar and restaurant – weeks after it dropped proposals to turn it into a nightclub. Venue Entertainments originally applied to turn the former Fads DIY shop, in Furtherwick

  • Breast way to get back to work earlier

    MOTHERS who are offered facilities to breastfeed or express milk in the office return to work earlier after having a child. These are the findings of a report by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Essex University. The study of about

  • Detectives launch rape probe

    A TEENAGER was raped on her way home from a night out. The 18-year-old woman was walking home from a night out at Basildon's Festival Leisure Park when the attack happened between 2am and 4am on Monday. The teen was walking in the underpass - which

  • Bitter dispute over community centre

    A LABOUR councillor has been accused of misrepresenting himself at a sensitive meeting over the future of a community centre, which took place before he was elected. John Scarola, who was elected Labour councillor for Laindon Park earlier this

  • Woman claims she was sexually assaulted in Basildon

    POLICE officers taped off an underpass after a woman reported she had been sexually assaulted. The woman said she was assaulted in the underpass at Festival Leisure Park, in Cranes Farm Road, Basildon, in the early hours of yesterday. Officers began

  • Disabled Thundersley teenager has go-kart stolen

    THIEVES stole a much-loved go-kart from a disabled teenager. William Weller, 14, of Common Lane, Thundersley, is devastated after his beloved go- kart was taken from his back garden. Mother-of-three Debbie Willis says she feels helpless

  • Collecting mail? That will cost you a parking ticket

    A POSTMAN trying to do his job in Southend was issued with a parking ticket by a traffic warden. The furious worker was caught after he stopped in Queen’s Road to pick up mail from the nearby Post Office in the High Street. Former postman

  • Billericay to get a giant cash and carry

    A GIANT cash and carry is going to be built in an industrial estate warehouse. Plans to transform part of the building in Radford Crescent, Billericay, into a members only shop selling end of line goods have been approved by Basildon Council