SOUTHEND United manager Phil Brown felt his side were taught a footballing lesson at Rochdale on Wednesday night. Blues were beaten 4-2 at Spotland, to leave the new Blues boss still waiting for his first win since taking over from Paul Sturrock
YOUNG people looking to become the next Alan Sugar or Karen Brady can get a helping hand at a soon to open business academy. Thorpe School in Wakering Road, Southend, is to launch a Young Business Academy from September offering vocational courses
SOUTHEND Hospital is to spend £118,000 on cleaning equipment as part of the reorganisation of its cleaning, catering and hospitality services. The money will be spent on new vacuum cleaners, buffers and steaming machines, which according to the
A FATHER is appealing for help after crooks broke into his shed and stole tools as well as his 12-year-old son’s bike. Thieves took the items from David Wills’ back garden in Sandringham Road, Southchurch, overnight. David, 40, said he hasn
A GIANT screen is to be installed at the new Forum building in Southend, after the council’s development control committee approved the plans yesterday. The LED screen, which will measure 6.22m by 3.5m, will form a focal point in the new public
A MAN has been warned he faces jail after admitting robbing a teenager on a train and attempting to rob a woman at knifepoint. Daniel Evans, 22, of Brinkworth Close, Hockley, first targeted a 16-year-old boy while the Greater Anglia train approached
A MAN who claimed more than £38,000 in benefits while working as a security guard may now lose his house. Vladimir Akinin, 67, of Littlebury Breen, Basildon admitted claiming £15,249 in incapacity benefit and £23,033 in pension credit despite working
A NEW music festival is being planned for Eastwood. The two-day folk festival called “Day of the Dead”, named after the famous Mexican holiday, will take place in a field next to Flemings Farm Road over the bank holiday weekend in August. The
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FURY has been sparked after dozens of trees at a Thundersley wildlife haven were hacked down to make way for 150 homes. Preliminary work has begun on the construction of the new homes on land between Kiln Road and Wensley Road after Castle Point
A SLIPROAD on the A13 will be opened ahead of schedule as the major roadworks continue. Contractors J. Murphy & Sons Limited have announced the London-bound on-slip is due to open on Friday, April 12 as phase four of the works will start.
A THUG who launched a violent attack in a bar, punching his victim as he lay on the ground, has been spared jail. Luis Harvey, 41, served up a flurry of punches at Fatty's bar, in High Street, Hadleigh, to a victim he had an old feud with.
FURIOUS parents have lashed out at Basildon Hospital and the ambulance service after their daughter was not treated for an infected birthmark. Brian Deans and Marie Postels’s four-month-old daughter Kimberly-Jane Deans was born with a strawberry
THE proposed Thames Estuary airport should be named after the late Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Boris Johnson says. The former Conservative Party leader died on Monday after a stroke. She was 87. The London mayor has already called for
A MAN has been jailed for three years after he swallowed almost £10,000 worth of cocaine to smuggle into Southend to evade police who were out in force during the Olympics. Stephen Barber, 23, swallowed 215 grams of the class A drug before travelling
Thousands of UK cars are being recalled due to an airbag problem. The problem relates to the air bag inflator on the passenger side of vehicles, which may burst and send pieces of plastic flying. There have been five incidents - in the USA
A PILOT with 25 years experience died instantly when his aircraft crashed in France. Stephen Sebastian, 52, of Elm Grove, Southend, took off from Barling in his microlight plane and intended to fly to stay with friends in Barcelona, Spain.
TWENTY trees have been cut down in a Basildon park after they were found to have Dutch elm disease. Residents contacted the Echo saying they were furious the trees had been cut down in Northlands Park, Pitsea, without any consultation. But
A SENIOR Tory will make a public apology to a political opponent after being accused of making abusive comments. John Dornan, Basildon Council’s cabinet member for the environment, will make the “unreserved public apology” at a meeting of the
ARMED police swooped on a multi-storey car park after reports of people waving a gun around - only to find the youths were filming a rap video. A worried shopper raised the alarm after the lift doors opened and he was confronted by a teenager on
A COUPLE who got together on Facebook decided to tie the knot... just a month after their first date. Kathy Rombaut and Kris Pamenter’s whirlwind romance was sparked when 35-year-old Kathy spotted a picture of Kris on a friend’s Facebook page.
