SOUTHEND'S main council building has been evacuated.
Scores of people piled out of Southend's Civic Centre in Victoria Avenue after they were told to leave the premises at about 2.15pm.
Southend Council said the cause of the evacuation was not yet known, but it was not an emergency situation.
They have now been allowed to return to the building
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