A BID to build a new residential development in Elmstead Market has been approved by council planners. Hills Residential Construction applied for permission to build 13 homes on land west of Clacton ...

Eleanor Brown opened The Nose bookshop in Newgate Street, Walton, three years ago, and it has since become a valuable community hub.

A FORMER Essex sub-postmaster says a newly published report into the Horizon scandal puts the blame "fairly, squarely and very firmly" with the Post Office.  In 1999, the Post Office rolled out new ...

Betty Brown, 92, from County Durham, ran the Annfield Plain Post Office with her late husband when the faulty Horizon software was introduced.

This illustrates a wider point – the work we do brings down knife crime and limits disorder on the streets of Essex.

In a big-hitting battle between the two tallest players to reach the last eight, 6ft 5ins Fritz overcame a third-set wobble, a medical timeout and a rogue line call to triumph 6-3 6-4 1-6 7-6 (4) ...

Speaking at the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, the Foreign Secretary admitted the impact of previous measures was ‘not sufficient’.

It follows a mixed picture in recent years, with one such attack in 2023 and 2022, none in 2021 and 2020, and five in 2019.

World number one Jannik Sinner has cancelled a practice session amid fears his Wimbledon bid could be scuppered by injury. The 23-year-old Italian hurt his elbow after slipping on the baseline in the ...

Colin Keane is set to miss the Qatar Goodwood Festival after being suspended for 14 days for using his whip over the permitted level at Sandown last week. The Irishman has not long been retained by ...

A first Netball Super League title was the result of both five years of building under Sam Bird, and more recent changes that transformed Pulse from challengers to champions.

The hottest July temperature recorded in the UK is 40.3C, which was reached in Coningsby in Lincolnshire on July 19 2022. This was the first – and so far only – date on which temperatures above 40C ...