Essex County, England News

A TEENAGER has been killed after the car he was travelling in came off the road and struck a tree.

Severe flood chaos in Britain Roads are blocked and houses swamped as heavy rain hits the United Kingdom.

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber poses in front of the winners' boards with the award for Outstanding Achievement in Music at the Classical Brit Awards 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall on May 8, 2008 in London, England.

POLICE are appealing for information after a woman was harrassed by a passenger on a train.

THE Pitsea flyover has often been the bane of south Essex commuters. Beset by phase after phase of repair work, the infamous leaky bridge has received millions of pounds of investment from Essex County Council and the Government.

Plans for a new A 450,000 Scout and community hall has been given the go-ahead. The hut earmarked for a field in Clay Hill Road, Basildon , was approved by councillors, despite residentsa fears it would create too much traffic in the surrounding area and host late-night parties.

Actor Hugh Grant attends the World Premiere of 'The Golden Compass' at the Odeon Leicester Square on November 27, 2007 in London, England.

As a young boy in the early 1950s, Ray Davies attended a church school in his native north London suburb of Muswell Hill - and that meant singing in the choir, whether you liked it or not.

THERE is good news for Essex commuters after National Express announced fares would either be frozen or reduced next year The firm, which runs National Express East Anglia services as well as the c2c lines into London Fenchurch Street and London Liverpool Street, announced its ticket pricing for 2010.

A murder suspect who was let out of custody by accident after a prison blunder gave himself up to police last night.

A man accused of raping and sexually assaulting 11 elderly women during a series of burglaries in south London and Kent over the past 17 years may learn if he is to face further charges.

BRIAN Houssart is well-known as a taxi driver and former Southend councillor. Yet few realise he has spent 37 years doing his best to help others.

AN INDEPENDENT police force has been appointed to review the original investigation into a man who was found dead in a cement mixer.

Helena Christensen's photographs from a trip to Peru, which document the impact of global warming, have gone on display in London.

Two teenage girls have been found guilty of causing the death of a south-east London vicar's daughter who leapt from a window.

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An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the firing of a distress flare which critically injured a four-year-old boy.

Earl conjures up a karmic plan to atone for all the wicked wrongs he did to an oddball "witch lady" when he was a youngster.

A DOG was cruelly dumped from a car before its owner sped off. The Staffordshire bull terrier was found cold and shaking in the early hours of November 11, after the driver ditched the female dog on the driveway of a home in Rainbow Lane, Stanford-le-Hope. The black-and-white bitch has since been taken to RSPCA kennels in Rochford , where staff are ...

A MAN is being held by police charged with two rapes that were carried out 13 years ago.