A TWO vehicle crash in Billericay has closed the A176 Laindon Road in both directions this evening. Police were called to the collision, near Billericay School, at 6.27pm and closed the road due to spilt petrol. The fuel was cleared and the
ESSEX wrapped up their pre-season friendlies with a comfortable 335-run win over Cambridge MCCU. The county resumed on 130-2 this morning at Fenners before declaring on 250-9 and then bowling the students out for 125. England skipper Alastair
BASILDON boxer Mark Quirey will be aiming to roll back the years on Friday when he fights for an Eastern region title. Berry Boys ABC coach Quirey faces Norfolk champion Ben Roberts in the Eastern Counties ABA elite super-heavyweight final on Canvey
A MAN has been charged over a fight at Bar Blanco in Rayleigh last summer in which two women were badly injured. The brawl broke out at the bar on Eastwood Road at 12:15am on Sunday, June 30, last year. A woman aged in her 40s, from Surrey,
BILLERICAY Town lined up an Eastern Region Women’s League Cup final against Great Shelford after beating Barking 3-2. Sophie Whiting, Marie Barker and Sam Edwards got the goals in a thrilling semi-final at Mayesbrook Park. It was a case of
Traffic is currently backed up in some of the main routes out of Basildon. There is slow traffic Eastbound on Cranes Farm Road, to East Mayne northbound in Nevendon.
BUDGET airline easyJet its winter schedule from Southend Airport, including an increase in flights to Tenerife. The airline will have 28,000 seats on sale for travel between October 26 2014 and February 28 2015 and services to Tenerife will be
A DETERMINED mum is skydiving with a group of friends to raise £10,000 for the charity supporting her seriously- ill son. Dawn Pisani is trying to raise the cash after her son, Joey, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Mrs Pisani, who lives
KING John School made a little bit of history by becoming the first school to win the under-16 girls football county cup for three successive years. The current crop of youngsters ensured the school completed the hat-trick of Reg Winters Cup final
TWO thieves have been jailed for stealing a quad bike and tools and equipment worth thousands of pounds from the Salvation Army. Ricky Port, 27, and Matthew Bristow, 29, took the £6,000 quad bike and £2,000 of tools from the charity’s Hadleigh
A CONTROVERSIAL 7ft seawall across Shoebury Common has been approved, despite massive opposition. Southend councillors have given the go-ahead for the £5million seawall, designed to protect more than 350 homes and businesses in Shoebury. The
ESSEX Leopards will host old rivals Bristol Academy Flyers in the play-off quarter-final at the Brentwood Centre on Sunday. The Big Cats had to settle for the runners-up spot in Division One of the English Basketball League after Reading Rockets
A GROUP of 20 pupils from Basildon’s De La Salle School had a day they will never forget with Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill. Ennis and 19 other Olympians hosted the pupils at her training track at the English Institute of Sport
TRAFFIC chaos around a busy Tesco supermarket could be solved after the company applied to extend its car park. Fed up residents have complained about parking problems at the shop in London Road, Rayleigh, shortly after it opened in February 2012
SOUTHEND United manager Phil Brown does not envisage Jamar Loza and Jacob Murphy returning to Norwich City early, despite the change of management at the Canaries. The teenage duo are currently on loan at Roots Hall from the Norfolk outfit.
A MUM whose premature baby boy died less than an hour after he was born says she can finally move on after an inquest found Southend Hospital had failed to give her proper care. Coroner Caroline Beasley- Murray highlighted four lapses in care when
What is the very latest official line on Fossetts Farm? @seaside100 Chris: "The latest line from the club is that building work will start in the spring. That continues to be the answer whenever the stadium is mentioned by any of our reporters
AN Asda supermarket has rushed to help a struggling food bank in Basildon. Tins and Things operates as part of Community bank, Choices Family Support Service, in Saffron Court, Laindon. The organisation, which opened last November, is finding
THIEVES tried to break into a garage and a car in Basildon. The culprits attempted to force open a garage door in Mariskals sometime between 8.45am and 6.30pm on Friday, April 4. They then tried to get into a blue Ford Focus, parked nearby,
ESSEX fire service will spend £28,000 carrying out safety checks at travellers’ sites. The county’s fire authority is proposing safety visits to 174 sites across Essex. The move has been described a waste of taxpayers’ cash, but the service
A WOMAN is suspected of stealing DVDs from Argos in the Victoria Shopping Centre in Southend. It is believed she went into the store and took the items from a display and left without paying for them. The woman has red hair, which was tied
POLICE want to speak to this man over the theft of a bicycle from the Royals Shopping Centre in Southend. The mountain bike, which is white with ‘Specialised’ written in large red letters on the frame, was chained to a bike rack on the Heygate
A DAD who dodged paying a penny of child support while £1.3million passed through his bank account has failed to convince top judges he should be freed from prison – to care for his kids. Stephen David England, 32, failed to pay £30,000 of maintenance
SOUTHEND Airport could take more than five million passengers in just a few years. The staggering figure was revealed as its £10million terminal extension was officially opened by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin on Monday. The airport
Basildon Freestyle Kickboxing Club is set to host its first large show for years this weekend. The club will be holding a competition for juniors on Sunday morning, with teenagers and senior fighters taking to the ring in the evening at the Holiday
A NURSERY gutted in a suspected arson attack will not have its building rebuilt. Basildon Council has refused to pay to allow the much-loved Busy Bees nursery, in Laindon Link, Laindon, to rise from the ashes. Instead, it says it may offer
A FURIOUS councillor has threatened to take County Hall to the Local Government Ombudsman over a threeyear battle to fix “appalling” pavements in Canvey. The poor condition of Linden Way has been branded a “disgrace” as the busy residential street
A MAN walked into a health centre and smashed up the reception with a sledgehammer. Terrified staff watched as he caused hundreds of pounds of damage at the Warrior House Health Centre in Southchurch Road, Southend. He destroyed three panes
A TEAM of Government “intensive support” experts has been drafted in to try to improve the flagging performance of Southend Hospital. Members of the NHS National Intensive Support Team have been brought in to find ways to tackle problems including
