CANVEY’S top cop has vowed police will be out in force this weekend targeting reckless boyracers. Chief Insp Ian Cummins said officers have already put an operation in place, beginning tonight (FRIDAY), targeting reckless cruisers using Roscommon
GAVIN Tomlin is confident Southend United will soon get their promotion campaign back on track. Saturday's 3-0 defeat at Exeter City was Blues' third league reverse in a row. But Tomlin is certain Paul Sturrock's side will soon return to winning
RYAN Cresswell insists Southend United must improve defensively in order to end their run of bad results. Blues were brushed aside 3-0 at promotion rivals Exeter City on Saturday and have now not won in normal time in their last five outings.
A COUNCIL leader has vowed that a new Thames crossing will not run through his borough. John Kent, Labour leader of Thurrock Council, spoke out after Kent County Council’s director of planning and environment, Paul Crick, said the best option
AN armed robber threatened a family with his gun. Two masked thieves, one wielding a handgun, first threatened two men looking at a motorbike for sale outside the family home in St Ann’s Road, Southend. The gunman then burst inside the home
CHILDREN have been spotted throwing stones at motorists from a bridge over the M25. A woman reported damage to her windscreen around 4.50pm on Friday when something was dropped from the B1335 Stifford Road bridge near junction 30. On Saturday
FIREFIGHTERS were called to tackle a blaze at a home in Basildon. The fire broke out in the ground floor of a property in Wetherland at around 12:55pm on Saturday. Two crews from Basildon fire station attended the incident and managed to extinguish
A CANCER survivor says her life was saved by the fast turnaround of a routine blood test by the people working in the pathology lab at Southend Hospital. Yet these types of tests are from April being transferred to Bedford Hospital for screening
HOSPICE bosses have unveiled plans to expand space for its day care patients. St Luke’s Hospice in Nethermayne, Basildon, is at capacity with treatment and activity rooms being used for multiple purposes so needs to expand. However, with annual
