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Hilarious footage of a man trying to break into a shop. He is so stupid & unlucky!

Drunk guy has some problems at the police station. Very funny!

A GRIEVING family have lost a puppy which brought happiness to their home following the death of a baby boy. Charlotte Letch, 27, of Great Ranton, Felmores, Basildon, said her three young daughters were heartbroken to have lost their brother and family

THURROCK and Basildon College is scrapping a wide range of courses in an effort to cut costs. The cuts will force scores of students to go elsewhere and mean up to ten lecturers face losing their jobs at the embattled college, which has fought over the

Watch Granny sleep on the side of the road and them wake up to cross the street.

The guy can do wonders and make many things interesting when they are boring.... especially these meetings

I think driving lessons are in order! This driver drives into fence, tipping over her car...

SOUTHEND Hospital is celebrating its first year as a foundation trust The new status has transformed services and sealed it future success, the hospital claims. The hospital already had an excellent record when it gained trust status in June 2006 and

THINGS are heating up at Basildon Fire Station as firefighters prepare to host a charity dance. They will be holding a toga-themed dance at the station on Saturday, June 9, to raise funds for the Fire Service National Benevolent Fund as

SOUTHEND United striker Freddy Eastwood has been named in the Wales squad. As exclusively revealed by Echosport last month, the Shrimpers striker qualifies to play due to his granddad who was born in Llanelli. And the Shrimpers hot-shot, who just

THREE days on from Southend United's relegation from the Championship, Blues boss Steve Tilson is already analysing what went wrong. A 3-1 defeat at the hands of Luton Town at the weekend condemned the Shrimpers to the drop and a place in League One

WEST Ham's fanatical supporters have won praise for inspiring their side to victory at Wigan Athletic. More than 5,200 Hammers fans travelled to the JJB Stadium for Saturday's 3-0 win, with many taking advantage of free coach travel laid-on by the

NATHAN Barham is Rayleigh Town Council's sports personality of the year. He was presented with his award by Council chairman David Geach and the FitzWimarc student, who has excelled at athletics and rugby, admitted to being "honoured and humbled" at

A DOOMED study into the possibility of building 1,250 new homes and creating 3,000 jobs on Shoebury New Ranges cost taxpayers £250,000. The East of England Development Agency commissioned consultants Llewelyn Davies Yeang to come up with plans for the

Funny videos of some cute cats doing some pretty funny stuff.

A MANAGER who stole more than £12,000 from his employer to pay for his wedding and love of gambling has been jailed for eight months. Daniel Swingler, 30, who had worked at Cash Express in Southernhay, Basildon, for four years, was caught out when his

CAMPAIGNERS from the Crays Hill traveller site turned up outside a theme park - to stage an anti-eviction protest. A coachload of about 50 travellers from the Dale Farm camp, in Oak Lane, Crays Hill, went to the Diggerland theme park in Strood, Kent

ANGRY residents whose homes will be bulldozed to make way for a new estate claim they have been offered unfit replacements. Basildon Council tenants in Mellow Purgess on the Five Links estate, Laindon, said the authority has revoked a deal to offer "

SOUTHEND is a casino town. Thanks to the long-running saga about which British town landed the country's first supercasino, it has been easy to overlook this simple fact. For almost two decades, the Rendezvous Casino has occupied the town's second

SOUTHEND Council has managed to keep the cost of a consultation on the pier's future down to under £11,000 - by ditching consultants and using postcards instead. A few years ago, the authority paid consultants Deloitte and Touche £167,070 to come up

OFFICES are going green and are seeing profits soar. That was the message at EcoExpo, a Basildon exhibition devoted to environmentally friendly office products. "The office world can and must play its part in combating waste and global warming," said

LIKE Starsky and Hutch and Cagney and Lacey before them. When she's out patrolling the streets of Southend, Val Howells knows the importance of a good partnership. Val's dog has even got a suitably menacing name - Shadow. In contrast to her gregarious

Just a collection of mishaps caused by women drivers.

DEFIANT fishermen are set to sail down the Thames to Parliament on Friday to protest against EU policies they claim are threatening their livelihoods. More than 40 vessels from Canvey, Leigh and Southend will join fellow fishermen from Kent to tell Government

A DESPERATE mother who suffers from chronic pain has been threatened with legal action after she failed to take her daughter to school. Christy Stead claims she suffers from severe abdominal pain and is sometimes unable to move, so she is struggling

A FATHER claims a Canvey museum is endangering the health hundreds of children by leaving asbestos roofing near a school. Castle Point Transport Museum is having its roofing replaced and it has been left next to a skip outside the building, in Point

Have you ever seen a bear do some kungfu moves??? Very funny!

A SHARP-EYED Echo reader spotted a traffic warden parking on the pavement - while issuing a ticket. The reader saw the warden in Highfield Crescent, Rayleigh, and captured the incident on her camera. She has since complained to the man's bosses at Rochford

THE lavish opera Aida normally conjures visions of a brilliantly-lit stage, pharaohs and sphinxes. However, when a new production of the opera comes to the Cliffs Pavilion this month, the stage will be lit from a rather different light source for one

THE annual Southend in Bloom competition promises to transform the borough with colourful creations once again. The contest encourages people to dive into their shed and dust off those gardening tools. Residents, schools and businesses will be looking

Comedian Judson Laipply takes 6 minutes of well known songs and produces the funniest dances ever to go with them!

A HAULAGE firm boss who stole a sea container packed with expensive brandy has been jailed for 17 months. David Lench who ran a haulage firm called KC Transport, based in Pitsea, stole a consignment of 2,366 bottles of Courvoisier from a Dartford container

A BUILDING company has had to shell out more than £5,000 after breaching health and safety regulations on a building site. D Nunn Builders, based on the Charfleets Industrial Estate, Canvey, admitted four breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act

THERE'S a new subject now topping the agenda in schools - good manners. Southend primary schools have led the way in piloting a new scheme to instil more respect in pupils, which will be extended nationally, and also include secondary schools. The scheme

A 12-YEAR-old girl has been praised for preventing an accident after a horse escaped from a field next to a busy road. Megan Terry was being driven along the road just near Warners Bridge, Rochford, by her grandfather, Albert Terry, when she spotted

PUPILS at Belfairs High School, in Leigh, have raised thousands of pounds for a homeless charity in Southend. Sixth-formers Henna Begum and Gareth Riley presented a cheque for £266 to the local charity, Serving the Homeless. Established in 1990, the

A SHED in Juniper Road, Leigh, was broken in to and £250 of garden tools were stolen.

DEFIANT fishermen are set to sail down the Thames to Parliament on Friday to protest against EU policies they claim are threatening their livelihoods. More than 40 vessels from Canvey, Leigh and Southend will join fellow fishermen from Kent to tell Government

ARSONISTS are believed to have caused the first grass fire of the year at Two Tree Island. Firefighters were called when people saw two teenagers using a lighter to set fire to the grass. Despite one of the witnesses chasing the boys, who are thought

DEVELOPERS have launched an appeal to build a block of 14 flats in Leigh that would rival the Grand Hotel for height. The plans to demolish Midel Cleaning Supplies and replace it with a five-storey block of flats were rejected by Southend Council last

CASTLE Point Scouts are gearing up for the world Scout and Guide centenary Jamboree later this year. Fundraising is under way to send six Scouts to the event in Hylands Park, Chelmsford, in July. The Scouts will add to the total by organising a barn

HOME composting will be the focus of national Compost Awareness Week which starts on Sunday. Basildon Council's recycling teams will be setting up in the fruit and vegetable aisles of supermarkets to urge residents to compost kitchen and garden waste

A PROJECT to transform a Seventies caravan into an Edwardian-style camera obscura is nearing completion. An enthusiastic group of volunteers has spent the past two months cleaning and repainting the Sprite caravan to convert it into a mobile work of

The old Viking camp has again become the target, not of Vikings but developers. It's not so many years ago, September 1995, that the once important creek by Benfleet Church was planned to be filled in and covered by 26 houses. That was eventually defeated

How many readers asked themselves how much we, the taxpayers, have paid in total for murderer and rapist Faruk Farik to go to appeal (April 25). Why doesn't the Echo find out and stagger us all? Maybe also find out how much it cost the taxpayer to defend

SAILOR Tony Bullimore is due to embark on his round-the-world solo record attempt. Mr Bullimore, who has been forced to delay his departure for two weeks due to adverse weather conditions, aims to leave with his 102ft catamaran Doha from Tasmania, Australia

Forty years of bombing down the A127 in my van and this is my own survey of manners at various junctions on this my Arterial Road. Leigh people, and I include myself, find it difficult to join this road from side turnings even if the traffic is moving

Southend West MP David Amess praised Westborough Primary School, in Westcliff, for the way it has responded to the challenges presented by the area's "diverse population" (April 25). Fair enough so far. The next sentence in the report read: "The school's

SOUTHEND has emerged as one of the most popular seaside resorts in the country, with foreign tourists flocking to the town in the summer. A study by bargain website lastminute.com ranks Southend the fifth most popular coastal resort for overseas visitors