Today is International Day for Persons with Disabilities, an annual event that celebrates people with disabilities. The day aims to spread awareness and understanding of disabilities that might not be immediately visible, such as mental illness, chroni…
Nicholas Sparkes, of Blickling Close, Ipswich, had been returning from a night out in Latchingdon, Maldon, and was driving in a Volkswagen Golf on the A12 towards Ipswich at 4.40am on Saturday, September 3 of last year.
At the same time, 46-year-old Ma…
A two-vehicle crash forced a brand new curved bridge to be shut just weeks after it opened. Emergency services were called out to the new Beaulieu Parkway Bridge at the Boreham Interchange last night (November 18).
Pictures from the scene of the incide…
Cambridgeshire Police have named a man who died after a collision in a Fenland village. Josh Hayden, 36, was found in a silver Ford Focus in a water-filled ditch in Manea.
The incident was reported to have taken place at around 7.30pm on Monday, Octobe…
Hundreds of patients at an Essex surgery will be marching in the streets to protest it being relocated to an out-of-town housing development that will make it “absolutely inaccessible”. The patients of Burnham-on-Crouch surgery fear that it could be mo…
An Essex NHS trust has been rated as requiring improvement following the publication of an annual Care Quality Commission (CQC) survey. The Adult Inpatient Survey allows patients to honestly review care they have received through spending at least one …
Hundreds of people across Essex have backed a petition calling for an ‘immediate’ UK general election. A petition to Parliament has been signed by more than 180,000 people across the UK.
In Essex it has been signed by almost 4,000 people as of 10am on …
The number of people who have taken up smoking in Brentwood has almost doubled in four years – with just three other districts nationally recording worse figures. But at the other end of the scale Maldon has seen the second highest drop in the number o…
Emergency services were called to a crash between the A120’s westbound carriageway near Great Dunmow and junction 8 of the M11.
The incident occurred at 3.35pm on Tuesday afternoon, according to a statement issued by National Highways East.
Essex Polic…
These will mainly be along the A12 in the early hours of the morning, with a few on the Dartford Crossing and the M25.
If you are set to be travelling along these areas, it’s best to take note of different diversions in place.
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Family members have paid tribute to an “adventurous and good-humoured” dad, father-in-law and grandfather in this week’s Essex Chronicle death notices and funeral announcements.
Everard (Gordon) Gordon-Hancock, 92, passed away in his sleep at Elmcroft …
Kleanbus at Stud Farm, Mundon Road, Maldon, is a start-up company which converts diesel buses into electric-powered vehicles using a prefabricated drive train.
The business aims to replace traditional combustion engines “with cleaner electric systems t…
Osborne Street, Colchester, will be closed from its junction with Vineyard Gate for a distance of approximately 50 metres in a south easterly direction for three nights from July 6.
The bus lane on Osborne Street will also be temporarily suspended from…
Maldon Primary School remains inadequate and has serious weaknesses including seeing too many pupils missing school, according to an education watchdog. Ofsted inspectors say progress has been made to improve the school, but more work is necessary for …