A GROUP of hardy Southend United fans, plus Echo sports reporter Chris Phillips, walked 28 miles – much of it beside the A127 – for charity. Nine members of the Shrimpers Trust group walked from the club’s Roots Hall ground to Dagenham and Redbridge
SHOPPERS and traders are outraged at Rochford Council plans to charge motorists 25 per cent more to use its car parks and bring in new Saturday charges. Under the increases motorists will have to pay £1 an hour instead of 80p. Rayleigh Chamber
A WOMAN was taken to hospital in a critical condition following a horror crash in Stanford-le-Hope yesterday morning. The woman, thought to be in her twenties, was travelling along Corringham Road when her Ford 4x4 was struck by a lorry from haulage
ESSEX’S top young cross-country runners will be kicking their heels again this weekend after the Essex Schools Cross-Country Championships was postponed for a second time. Chelmsford Council said a “mutual decision” had been made with race organisers
A WOMAN has suffered serious injuries after she was car jacked in a quiet residential street. The woman was driving in Curling Tye in basildon at about 2.30pm this afternoon when she was flagged down by a man claiming there was something in the
SOUTHEND Council is spending more than £1million on consultants to push through its controversial plans to improve flood defences, the Echo can reveal. The authority has already paid £394,000 to international firm Black and Veatch for its work
TWO teachers at Beauchamps School in Wickford have been named as among the best in the country. Maths teacher Andy Beedham was named secondary school teacher of the year at the Essex Teaching Awards. Mr Beedham acts as a team leader, coach
Baffled by Bach? Puzzled by Puccini? Yet still wanting to discover what classical music is all about? Here are suggestions for ten of Echo features writer Tom King's favourite pieces of music. Together they should make anybody a convert. Read the
THE landlord of a Canvey pub will appear in court charged with a racially aggravated offence. Mark Lester, who runs the Admiral Jellicoe Pub in High Street, has been charged with racially aggravated behaviour to cause distress after a fight broke
HAVE your say about crime and community safety in Basildon. The Essex Police and Crime Commissioner will be holding a public meeting on Tuesday, February 18. The event is an opportunity for residents to discuss the crime and policing issues
POLICE investigating the theft of £1,300 worth of cosmetics from a chemist in Leigh want to identify two women who were caught on CCTV at the time of the theft. One of the woman is believed to have been in the store on two occasions when make-up
A DRIVEWAY company has fallen foul of new fines designed to crack down on unlicensed skips and obstucting highways. Driveways Essex, of Great Stambridge, was charged with obstructing the highway with building materials and having a skip on Acacia
POLICE want to speak to these men following a theft from a Co-Op in Leigh. Between 4.30pm and 5pm on December 18, 2013, two men entered the Leigh Road store, selected three bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey and left making no attempt to pay.
POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a woman they want to speak to in connection with an assault at a convenience store on Canvey. At 3.20pm on January 24, a woman threw a shopping bag at another woman inside the Nearbuys convenience store
PATIENTS at a Leigh dental practice are being told to go elsewhere if they want free dental treatment because the surgery has run out of NHS funds. The Leigh Primary Care Dental Surgery on London Road, is telling patients who try to book appointments
A DOG paralysed by a stroke has been given a new lease of life, thanks to water therapy. Trigger, a Staffordshire bull terrier crossed with a whippet, had a stroke a year ago. Owner Mandi Stephens, 50, of Hall Road, Rochford, was told by a
A DEDICATED volunteers society for the elderly is appealing for volunteers to help expand its work in the community. CISCA – which stands for Canvey Island Senior Citizens Association – has been run since 1969 by hard-working volunteers and offers
WHILE Southend slumbers there are those who wrap up against the cold night air and venture out to help those in need. Southend’s street pastors are brave souls who think nothing of spending the night on the seafront to help scantily-clad teenagers
AN AWARD-WINNING wheelchair dancer is seeking a new able bodied partner. James Ireland, 22, who was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus and is paralysed from the waist down, performed at the London Paralympic Games opening ceremony in 2012
CONSULTANTS cost County Hall more than £8.6million last year, new figures show. Spending included a £1.5million fee to PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of the authority’s money saving Customer Transformation Programme. A Freedom of Information
I HAD a good chat with Freddy Eastwood at the training ground yesterday and we are both still very much on the same page. I know I decided to bring on both Lee Barnard and Cauley Woodrow ahead of him at Dagenham & Redbridge on Tuesday night
A WARD manager at Basildon Hospital used a colleague as her personal handyman, a nursing tribunal has ruled. Abiola Apara got a clinical support worker to mow her lawn, fix a leaking tap and install a new washing machine while he was supposed to
SOUTHEND United manager Phil Brown has expressed his disappointment at Cauley Woodrow being recalled by Fulham. The 19-year-old striker had been expected to remain at Roots Hall until the end of the season. But the Cottagers opted to call the
SOUTHEND United are gambling on skipper John White’s return to action. White could play against Newport County at Roots Hall tomorrow night after missing the last four games with a dislocated shoulder. The right-back has returned to full training
HUNDREDS of students were sent home from college after a power failure hit the borough on Tuesday. Around 700 pupils at Seevic College, the largest college in the area, were evacuated after an underground fault at a substation in Rayleigh which
Hundreds of people turned out to greet the future King and the Duchess of Cornwall as they toured south Essex. The whistlestop tour of the county started at the High House Production Park in Purfleet before going to the Bell pub in Purleigh, near
A CAMPAIGN group has made history by forcing a council to debate plans for a massive housing development – after gathering a 1,500-name petition. Now Save Corringham Green Belt is hoping it has done enough to derail plans for 800 homes on green
CHARITIES are warning about a huge increase in the number of people in south Essex asking for help over their debts. The StepChange Debt Charity says the number of people in the SS postcode area calling its helpline asking for advice has shot up
A FAMILY is devastated after learning Castle Point Council’s regeneration partnership wants to buy their “dream home” and knock it down to make way for a stream. Catherine and Adan Morales, of Waarden Road, Canvey, received a letter from the partnership
CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho accused West Ham of playing "football from the 19th century" after being left frustrated by a goalless draw at Stamford Bridge. The Blues fell three points behind new Barclays Premier League leaders Manchester City
WEST Ham defender Joey O'Brien faces an absence of around three months after dislocating his shoulder in tonight's Barclays Premier League draw at Chelsea. Manager Sam Allardyce confirmed the defender will miss a significant chunk of the Hammers
CHELSEA were frustrated by West Ham in a goalless draw which saw Jose Mourinho's men fall three points behind Barclays Premier League leaders Manchester City. Mourinho on Tuesday played down his side's title chances this term and the Blues saw
