NEW day-trip cruises are setting sail from Southend Pier this summer taking passengers back in time to "Dickens country" ...

A new McDonald's coming to Wickford High Street is set to open in late July, with bosses currently recruiting for restaurant staff ...

A Grade II listed farmhouse which was once owned by a Lord is on the market for £2.8 million in south Essex. Located on Barrow Hall Road in Little Wakering, Barrow Hall Farmhouse is described as a ...

Dedman Gray, on behalf of Southend Council, is seeking expressions of interest for both the term of lease and proposed rent of the famous ...

THESE 10 south Essex drink or drug drivers caught behind the wheel have been sentenced by magistrates this week ...

A PAEDOPHILE Southend drug-dealer who sexually attacked a child “should have got life”, her uncle has told the Echo ...

The London, a warship built during the Cromwellian era, exploded in the Thames Estuary in 1665, killing more than 300 people. It was part of the fleet that brought Charles II back to England in 1660 ...

Basildon Council is looking to build 97 homes, shops, and a 95-bed hotel with a rooftop bar on part of the Westgate Shopping Centre. This comes after the council bought the centre for £18.5 million ...

WITH its unique charm and rural character, the little-known village of Barling is perfect for a peaceful summer daytrip - and its only a ...

DOMESTIC violence, evictions and family breakdowns are behind a surge in homelessness which will cost £100 million to remedy, it has been claimed. The enormous five-year investment is being proposed ...

Tony Holliday’s wife Bev urged travellers to ‘look out for things that we didn’t see’ when going on excursions while on holiday.

A father-of-three who is suing holiday provider Tui at the High Court after a quad bike crash is “not the same person” after the incident, and the pain he suffers can be “unbearable”, he has said.