Barking and Dagenham Council has three new Labour councillors following multiple by-elections which took place on Thursday, ...

Shortcomings around plans for almost 200 homes were “baked in” Borough Council planning committee has heard. Redrow Homes has ...

A judge has described the violent burglary of an innocent family as “everyone’s worst nightmare”, after three criminals ...

A new “state-of-the-art” special needs school, with 190 places, has been announced for Rayleigh, with construction workers ...

A High Court judge has extended an order to ban further development and placing caravans on a small Travellers’ site ...

A man has been told he must spend at least 26 years in prison for the murder of on man and the unprovoked knifepoint attack ...

According to a report in The Times this week, the government is planning to replace the district, borough, and county ...

Angelo Harrop has been dismissed as manager of Braintree Town following two and a half years with the club, during ...

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, advisor to Henry VIII, dies just before facing trial for treason. 1643: Composer Claudio Monteverdi dies ...

The Thameside Theatre in Grays has survived threats of closure to “break even” this year … but it’s future is yet to be ...

Thurrock Council has declined to say whether it will oppose a controversial project to upgrade the electricity infrastructure ...

A man has been arrested and thousands of wild birds eggs seized during a warrant carried out by Wildlife Crime ...