SOME comedians would panic at the thought of doing more than a two-hour set, and most would flinch at the thought of five hours, but Mark Watson took it in his stride when he launched his first Edinburgh 24-hour set. The 2004 show was a
POLICE are investigating the theft of 14 chickens and two ducks. The chickens and Indian Runner ducks, Indiana and Daffy, were stolen from the back garden of a house in Rectory Road, Hockley. The birds were all in a pen in the garden
RESIDENTS are being urged to be vigilant after crime more than doubled in Benfleet last month. Speaking at a Benfleet neighbourhood meeting, PC Paul Levine said the area averages 25 to 30 incidents a month, but in May there were 75. Crimes included
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a flat fire in the early hours of this morning. Crews were called to Lydford Road, Westcliff, at 3.45am as the roof of a terraced house appeared to be on fire. Th fire started in the kitchen of the flat in the upstairs of
A teenager has been jailed for a drunken attack which left a commuter so badly injured he suffered a brain haemorrhage. The 17-year-old was part of a gang which launched an unprovoked attack on the man in Ashingdon Road, Rochford. Victim Mark Eagles
