Southend's troubles at the bottom of the Championship table deepened with a 2-0 Essex derby defeat against Colchester at Layer Road. Blues were reduced to nine men following the sending off of skipper Kevin Maher and winger Mark Gower when the match
More than 100 homes in Benfleet have been without a phone for a week after a fault caused by bungling builders. Jan Osbourne, of Homefields Avenue, said her phone is a lifeline to emergency services for her elderly father, Richard, who lives with her
The Tesco store in Pitsea is set to open one of Britain's first space-age "one-stop" recycling centres. A high-tech machine, which gobbles up rubbish and automatically sorts plastic, metal and glass at 80 products per minute, is set to open at the
It's a chocoholic's dream! Sweet-toothed shoppers will soon be able to tuck into a tasty treat from the world's largest chocolate fountain - which stands at nearly two metres high. Lee Raymond, of Rayleigh Road, Benfleet, who owns Alston's Chocolate
We have all seen pictures of dogs and cats which need new homes but how about a bearded dragon or a leopard gecko? Iain Newby has dozens of exotic animals at his Dangerous Wild Animal Rescue Facility (Dwarf) in Great Wakering, but hopes some of them
Pedestrians can now cross the Eastwood Road safely after medical firm KeyMed ploughed £20,000 into improvements. The work has made it much easier and safer for pedestrians to cross Eastwood Road at its junction with Blenheim Chase and have also given
