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  • Car collides with bridge in Rayleigh

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to Benfleet after a vehicle collided with a bridge yesterday evening. One crew, from Rayleigh Weir station, attended the scene on Ferry Road at approximately 8.30pm yesterday, where a green Toyota Yaris had hit a bridge

  • Basildon firefighters attend two 'suspicous' car fires

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to attend a car blaze in Basildon seconds after extinguishing a car fire in Vange. Basildon fire crews received a call for an incident at Chestnut Road, Vange, at 2.50am today. One crew attended the scene, under the

  • Firefighters called to car blaze in Rayleigh

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to a car fire in Rayleigh at 8pm yesterday. One crew, from Rayleigh Weir, attended the scene on Deerhurst Road, and wore two sets of breathing apparatus while extinguishing the fire. The fire was extinguished by approximately

  • MPs use taxpayers’ cash to fund office hire from own party

    THREE south Essex ToryMPs used taxpayers’ money to rent their constituency offices from their own political party. Information released by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority shows Rebecca Harris, James Duddridge and David Amess are

  • Post office is open until 11pm daily

    A POST Office is now open for twice as long as before, serving customers until 11pm every day. Billericay’s High Street post office has been given a major facelift as part of changes which now see its counters open from 6am until 11pm, seven days

  • Cash converters joins crackdown on stolen goods

    THIEVES who try to sell stolen goods in a major second- hand chain are being targeted in a new crackdown by police. Cash Converters UK, which has branches in Southend, Grays, Pitsea and Basildon, has joined forces with Essex Police to tackle burglars