A "jealous and frustrated" man shot his former partner and their two-year-old daughter dead in a violent altercation just hours before they were due t...
Two police officers and a motorist have been injured in a collision during a police pursuit. The police car, a Ford S-Max, was sounding its siren a...
A house has collapsed following an explosion in the early hours of this morning. Police and firefighters were called to a house, divided into t...
Tributes have been paid to a 12-year-old girl who died after being hit by a rugby ball during a PE lesson at a school. Leonie Nice was catching the...
A 12-year-old girl has died after being hit by a rugby ball during a PE lesson at an Essex school. Leonie Nice was catching the ball during a lesso...
With news reaching the cricketing world that batsman Alviro Petersen will be joining Essex as their overseas player for the first half of the 2012 County Championship season, it is the second such announcement of late that I must admit to finding slightly baffling.
A street cleaner struck gold when he found a Rolex watch. The 28-year-old was cleaning a drain near Leigh-on-Sea railway station in Essex last Frid...
A male-stripping company branded "sordid and distasteful" has defended a performance at a primary school fundraising event, saying the act was just "i...
A man who climbed across a frozen river in his underpants to save his dog has been criticised by firefighters for his "dangerous" rescue. The owner...
A man whose dog bit off part of a six-year-old girl's ear was given a 12-week suspended jail term today. Gary Hindley, 56, of Woodberry Way, Chingf...
Frank Lampard's former public school has expelled a pupil for taking pictures up a staff member's skirt. The pupil, who attended Brentwood school, ...
Network Rail (NR) is to plead guilty to breaching health and safety laws at a level crossing where teenagers Olivia Bazlinton and Charlotte Thompson w...
Whilst the focus on boobs is perhaps the only constant in TOWIE, the cast list changes more regularly than Joey Essex's catchphrase de jour (tonight, for example, it was 'salt', meaning 'attractive girl'). Gone are Mark, Kirk and Maria - and in their place a host of new faces. Meet the gang...
The parents of a six-year-old girl who lost most of her ear when she was savaged by a dog said today the attack had left them "totally devastated" and...
Firefighters have freed two trapped people following an 11-vehicle pile-up on the M11. Emergency services were called to reports of an accident inv...
Ed Miliband today said the current generation of politicians owe a "massive obligation" to young people as he vowed to only make promises he can keep....
A grandmother has told of her shock after an out-of-control Ford Mondeo ploughed into her lounge. Andrea Barr had just nipped into her kitchen whe...
A pensioner who killed a schoolgirl as he mounted the pavement in his car had been warned not to drive three days earlier after he failed an eye test,...
A former Essex county cricketer admitted a corruption charge linked to a NatWest Pro 40 match today. Mervyn Westfield, 23, pleaded guilty at the Ol...
Two teenagers arrested in connection with the stabbing of a rail ticket inspector remain in custody. The 42-year-old inspector was attacked after c...
A motorist has described how he looked over to see his wife "covered in blood" after a bucket-sized piece of concrete was dropped on to their vehicle ...
A woman has been caught apparently stealing flowers from the grave of a dead schoolboy, in what the family has described as a "callous" act. CCTV ...
A father who killed his toddler son because he was crying has been jailed for nine years. Nathan Allen brought both fists down on ...
A driver who survived after her windscreen was smashed by a concrete block dropped from a bridge has spoken of her relief at the miracle escape. Mo...
At least 10 families have moved back onto the UK's largest illegal travellers' site after bailiffs and council officials completed their clearance ope...
