Braintree, England News

Mrs Pamela Marie Andrews . Honorary chair, Alzheimer's Society, Mansfield and Ashfield branch.

Braintree MP Brooks Newmark has received numerous complaints from drivers frustrated about potholes that have remained unfilled for long periods of time.

A pensioner says he will go to court if necessary after putting up concrete bollards in a last-ditch attempt to protect his home.

The National Gardens Festival Weekend will see over 800 private gardens will be open to the public across both England and Wales, with three gardens in Braintree and Witham taking part on Saturday.

A British Jewish MP from the governing Conservative Party, who has met frequently with Bashar Assad, warned that the Syrian president is "willing to destroy Syria completely" in his bid to protect his regime and his family, and said that Syrian rebels forces must be supplied with the weaponry needed to defeat him and avert genocide.

Firefighters were called to land on Lyons Hall Farm, off Lyons Hall Road, Braintree, at about 6.40am last Thursday after a friend of farmer Adam Whitehead spotted smoke billowing over the tree line.

The Hazardous Area Response Team moved into a new base at the Skyline 120 Business Park, in Great Notley, in March.

A careless driver has been ordered to complete a driver improvement course or face court after her car collided with a bus and sent it careering into a block of flats.

About 40 people attended the Braintree Council Local Development Framework sub-committee meeting at Witham Public Hall on Thursday as members discussed the future of the town, including 700 homes at Lodge Farm.

ONE of the most underrated of musical instruments is the humble recorder. Learnt by children, and often set aside when they graduate to something more musically demanding, or just disposed of, the recorder can be as expressive as most instruments in the hands of the right composer and performer.

Armed police swooped on a Braintree home and arrested a man in connection with the drug trafficking of more than 1,000 kilos of cannabis and amphetamines.

The black and white feline, which does not have a collar, has been seen carrying the babies in Great Notley.

Personal details purportedly belonging to members of the English Defence League living in Essex and Suffolk have been leaked online by individuals claiming to belong to an international "hacktivist" group.

British Muslims fear they could become "sitting targets" for far-right violence following a spate of attacks on mosques and a spike in other reported hate incidents in the week since the murder of a British soldier on a London street.

After initially ignoring reports that two Muslim extremists in London savagely murdered a British soldier in broad daylight, MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Friday finally included the story on his All In show as he began the segment with the news of retaliatory anti-Muslim attacks on London mosques.

The Braintree Bowmen, which throughout the summer are based at Blake End Craft Centre, were formed at the very end of 1952.

Violence and fear travel swiftly, and faster still in the era of tweets and status updates and 24-hour rolling news.

AN Essex MP has called for calm after an Islamic centre in his constituency became the target of an apparent reprisal attack following the murder of a soldier in Woolwich.

POLICE have charged a 43-year-old man with two counts of possession of offensive weapons and affray over an attack on an Islamic centre.

IT WAS when hearing Pat Boone sing April Love again after so my years, that a whole lot of adolescent memories came flooding back.