REECE Topley provided further proof of his blossoming talent with an impressive five-wicket haul before Essex let opponents Gloucestershire off the hook on the opening day at Chelmsford. The 21-year-old left-arm seamer made use of the greenish
THUGS stabbed a man in the leg during a terrifying street robbery. The 24 year-old was walking through Shoebury Park, off Elm Road, Shoebury, when he was approached by two men. They produced a knife and stabbed the victim in the leg, before
JESSICA Judd admitted she was gutted after missing out on a medal in the 800m at the British Championships. The 19-year-old from Canvey said she gave it all she could but didn’t have the legs in the final 100m as she finished fourth in 2m 2.73s
HAYLEY McLean’s magnificent summer continued has she won her first ever medal at the senior British Championships, smashing her personal best in the process. The 19-year-old, from Stanford-le-Hope, stormed to a bronze medal in the 400m hurdles
Essex will host part of the biggest cycling race in the world next Monday and the Echo and Gazette newspapers will be bringing you unrivalled coverage in the run-up to the event. Every day this week, starting tomorrow, our sports pages will feature
IT was disappointment for Essex cyclists at the British Cycling National Road Race Championships as all of them failed to complete the 117-mile course. Alex Dowsett, Daniel Patten, Russell Hampton and George Wood lined up at the start in Monmouthshire
“MINDLESS thugs” caused more than £500 worth of damage to a popular park. Vandals struck at Belfairs Park, on Eastwood Road North, Leigh, over the course of a two-week period. They set fire to piles of timber, kicked the heads off sprinklers
TWO women went on a 30-minute crime spree. Police have released a CCTV image of the pair, who are both Asian and in their 20s, in a bid to track them down. They are thought to have carried out three distraction thefts from business in Rayleigh
TEACHING needs to improve at a Southend school, Ofsted says. Inspectors from the education watchdog first said in January that Thorpe Greenways Junior School needed to improve. Now they have found action is still required to raise the quality
POLICE have released an efit of an armed robber who threatened a car saleswoman at knifepoint. The man walked into the sales office of WeBuyAnyCar.com, in Boston Avenue, Southend, and waved a blade in front of a female worker, demanding her to
THE A13 was closed for two hours after a car flipped over onto its roof. A woman had to be cut free from her black Ford Fiesta after she lost control and crashed in the early hours of this morning. She was taken by paramedics to the Royal London
THREE people have been arrested after a cyclist was seriously injured in a hit and run. Paramedics rushed the 36 year-old woman to Southend Hospital after she was knocked off her bike as she cycled along Harcourt Avenue, Southend. She was struck
MORE than 160 runners went the extra mile in aid of Southend’s homeless, taking part in the Harp24 relay race. They competed in the 24-hour event around a 4.2mile circuit starting at Westcliff Rugby Club, split into teams of up to eight. A
A PARISHIONER has published a novel to raise funds for her beloved church. Dawn Knox, 58, spent eight years penning her thriller, Daffodil and the Thin Place, which tells the story of a teenager who has a soul trapped inside her body. The mystical
