A family has been left homeless[1] on Christmas Day[2] after a car crashed into the front of their property and destroyed it.
Ana Diaconu, 30, and Florin Maracinenu, 34, were enjoying a relaxed start to the festive holiday before a black BMW[3] ploughe…
An Essex road is closed after a car crashed into a house on Christmas Day (December 25). Police and firefighters are at the scene on Argent Street, Grays.
Emergency services have been at the scene since shortly before 10am. The closure is expected to r…
Last night, at around 11:47pm, two crews from Grays, one from Rayleigh and one from Orsett, attended a glass recycling centre at Tilbury Freeport.
On arrival, firefighters reported that the building was heavily smoke logged.
Crews used breathing appar…
Network Rail warned today that major station construction programmes, track renewals, overhead line renewals, bridge demolitions and maintenance will be taking place over Christmas and may disrupt travel plans.
At Cambridge South, a new track realig…
Almost six million entries and exits were recorded at Chelmsford railway station in the year up to March 2023, according to the latest from the Office for Rail and Road (ORR). It’s an increase of around 1.3 million journeys compared to the previous yea…
RESIDENTS are being asked to give their views on proposals for how Thurrock homes, jobs and industry will develop over the next 20 years reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Thurrock Council has given the go-ahead for public consultation to …
A convicted people smuggler[1] has been jailed for his role in an illegal immigration plot that saw 39 people killed.
The final member of a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of 39 men[2], women and children in Essex has been jailed for seven y…
A Caledon[1] haulier linked to the people smugglers responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants has been jailed for seven years.
Twenty-six-year-old Caolan Gormley was found guilty of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration after a trial i…
Network Rail is warning Christmas[1] travellers of disruption across the Anglia region due to extensive engineering work.
Its workers will be carrying out major station construction, track and overhead line renewal, bridge demolitions and maintenance o…
Years of heated buyer demand created the strongest sellers’ market of the past decade across much of the UK.
And while demand has dipped since the heady days of 2021, one town in Somerset has been named among the top hotspots for sellers at the moment,…
A haulage boss has gone on trial accused of being involved in a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 men, women and children in Essex.
Police and forensic officers at the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, after 39 bodies of Vie…
A “fit and healthy” 46-year-old man died after doctors went against national guidance and failed to spot a fatal blood clot, the health ombudsman has found. An investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) discovered the patien…
Police are trying to trace a car after an Essex hit-and-run left two women seriously injured. The pair were running along Dock Road, Grays, shortly after 8.10pm on Wednesday (November 8) when the crash took place.
The incident took place near the junct…
The Perfect Storm – The East Coast Floods of 1953 – Michelle Savage
AT our first meeting of the season we welcomed Museum Officer Michelle Savage. Her talk was entitled The Perfect Storm, focusing on how the floods on the night of 31st January/1st Feb…