Havens hospices has launched its Robins of Remembrance appeal for the second year running, inviting people to dedicate robin decorations in memory of those they have lost. The scheme follows the ...

The Southend Green Party has unveiled its latest candidates for the 2026 elections at a community action day. The seven candidates were announced on Sunday, November 23 at a launch event. This comes ...

Work on a new special school in south Essex is set to start before Christmas and will cater for children with the most severe special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The long-awaited Wolsey ...

FRUSTRATED residents took matters into their own hands to remove road closure barriers as traffic began to build.

Southend High School for Boys’ science department is in the running for the PTI’s (previously the Prince’s Teaching Institute) annual Bernice McCabe Award. This recognition is given to school ...

A new £200,000 state-of-the-art centre for children with special educational needs has opened at a school in Basildon. The hub at Lee Chapel Primary School and Nursery was officially unveiled on ...

Former police officer Paul Morris was part of the Southend's RNLI crew called to reports of a person in distress.

Alpha Kalay died in 2021 after multiple opportunities to care for him were missed by staff at HMP Hull, where he was serving ...

The Prime Minister will host a call on Tuesday after efforts over the weekend between the US and Kyiv to broker a truce with Russia.

Businesses polled by The Careers & Enterprise Company said making it easier to work with schools would make them more likely to offer ...