Valerie grew up in Grays, Essex, the middle of three children born to working-class parents. Art came naturally to her, to ...

The founder of the specialist contractor turned 75 over the summer. He tells Dave Rogers about nearly going under, having the ...

East London commuters are facing rail replacement services and diversions across all lines on the c2c network this week.

A ex-Welling United footballer, a paedophile pastor, and a Bexley and Bromley car thief were jailed in September 2024.

A COUPLE who hoped to open a church in a disused shop in Grays say they feel "persecuted" after an appeal against refusal of ...

A HUGE blaze ravaged warehouses and spread to 15 vehicles as terrified residents heard “loud bangs” and were warned to keep ...

Crews were first called to Hovefields Avenue in Basildon today at 1.15am today and found warehouses and about 15 vehicles, fully alight ...

A COUPLE who hoped to open a church in a disused shop in Grays say they feel "persecuted" after an appeal against refusal of ...

FIREFIGHTERS spent more than two hours dousing a fire that broke out at a metal processing site at Tilbury docks last night ...

OFFICERS will be proactively engaging with residents in high harm hotspots across the county in the next 12 days to encourage them to surrender any potentially illegal knives. On the first morning of ...

An ambulance arrived and took Mr Dickins to Basildon Hospital, where he died at 9pm on Sunday, December 31. The coroner said: “He consumed an amount of cannabis that was 13 times the drug drive limit.

More than 9,000 illegal vapes were seized from a Thurrock shop last year, it has been revealed. Michael Dineen, assistant ...