The Essex Roads Cycling Club were victors in the Essex Cycle Racing Associations teams of five riders event for the third successive year. The event, held over 25 miles on Sunday, was won in a time of four hours 55 minutes six seconds, which gave the
Harold Park travelled to Walthamstow on Saturday as guests of Hainault Road and in a match played in a mixture of rain and wind, emerged as winners by 114 runs. Asked to bat first, Harold Park were given a splendid start by openers Cliff Leondiou and
Thousands of aviation enthusiasts are set to descend on North Weald Airfield on Sunday for a five hour air spectacular. Brendan Walsh, of Intrepid Aviation which has organised North Weald 99, said: "We had 20,000 people last year and on Sunday we're expecting
The public are being warned to be on the alert to the dangers of security companies whose sales representatives have been knocking on the doors of Brentwood homes. They are worried that people may unwittingly give away all important details of their home
Workers had a fright when they found an inch-long scorpion hiding inside a packing case. The black emperor scorpion - whose sting is six times stronger than a wasp - originates from the Far East. It was discovered by staff at ball valve firm Flow Control
A woman has had a vital operation cancelled SIX times in three weeks. Sheila Stedman, 63, needed an operation on a hernia and colon at Colchester General Hospital. But the operation was repeatedly cancelled, a total of six times in three weeks. A health
Glory-seeking Tiptree aim to end their season on a high by winning the Eastern Floodlight Cup tonight. The Jam-makers were pipped to promotion in Jewson Division One, but victory over Leyton Pennant tonight, kick-off 7.45pm at Chapel Road, would help
Colchester Stars travelled to race East London CSC (West Ham) with high hopes of gaining their second ever away win, and they came mighty close finally going down 94-90. After heat eight Stars were trailing by four points but Dave Beeby and Rick Burling
The latest piece of hi-tech medical equipment arrived in Brentwood by crane. The giant magnet, which forms part of the new Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI) was hoisted into position at the Essex Nuffield Hospital, giving it the only such permanent specialist
Fed up residents on the Montgomery Crescent estate in Harold Hill say they are fuming with car owners who are dumping car wrecks on their doorsteps, making the place look like a "war zone." Added to the misery of the parked cars, locals say they are angry
It was business as usual for a popular pub today after a suspected arson attack ruined one of its toilets. Southend firefighters were called to the Last Post pub in Weston Road, Southend, at around 6.30pm yesterday after somebody set fire to one of the
Police have issued an E-fit picture of a man they want to talk to about a brutal robbery at a Billericay off-licence. The robber left a shop assistant lying in a pool of blood at Unwins on Western Road after punching him several times in the face as they
A quick-thinking council lorry driver stopped a fire spreading to his cab when he unloaded a burning skip full of rubbish. The seven-and-a-half ton Castle Point Council lorry was on Kiln Road, Thundersley, when the load it was carrying caught fire. Firefighters
EKCO MONARCHS 197-7 HOCKLEY 128 (MONARCHS WON) Match-winner A Blunt grabbed 6-32 to back up his 69, while team-mate D Gilbert took 3-35, as a strong team performance led Monarchs to victory. Costly drops OLD WESTCLIFFIANS 208-7 SNARESBROOK 189-7 (DRAW
As Central Essex BC and Brentwood BC share the greens at King George's Playing Fields, neither enjoyed ground advantage in an early season RBA League fixture, but at the halfway stage Brentwood looked likely to take both points. High hopes for the Central
The two World Cup warm-up matches contested by Essex last weekend saw them beaten narrowly in both games by World Cup participants. On Saturday, Bangladesh won by five runs. Batting first, they lost both openers for a duck but thanks to Khaled Mahmud
The Cricket World Cup begins tomorrow (Friday), when England play the first match in the competition against current champions, Sri Lanka at Lord's. 12 nations are competing and there will have been a total of 42 matches played at different venues by
Thorpe Bay tasted victory in the Essex Intermediate Cup despite three of the games going to three sets. Jon Lee, Simon Cuthbert, David Tubbs and Graham Bloomfield were the successful players who notched up the 4-0 win over Redbridge. There was success
Daniel Phillips, 10, a member of the Brentwood based Recoil Trampoline Club, bounced his way to a gold medal winning position at a recent trampoline competition held at Harlow. It was only the second competition for Daniel who competed in the U11 Novice
Clearview ladies open up their programme in the Premier Division of the National Club League on Sunday. They entertain Cardiff in their opening group match (12 noon start) and then follow up with a match the following Saturday at home to Globe in Middlesex
Katie Holmes, a member of the Billericay Tennis Club, made her debut for the Essex girls team in the LTA 13 & Under Inter County Cup last week. She was in the squad which travelled to Sutton to play in Group Two. In the opening match against Lincolnshire
Last weekend was a busy one for the Shaftesbury Cycling Club, and although Saturday was a miserable day weatherwise, many of the local racing cyclists went to support the Glendene CC 10 miles time trial on the A11. There were 60 entries but the heavens
Billericay eased into the third round of the Essex League Cup with an emphatic win over Second Division Hornchurch, a result that didn't look in any doubt once the home side had posted a total well in excess of 200. Batting first the right and left-handed
The heartbroken parents of a Hutton toddler who died in hospital have been told: 'You will never know what killed her'. Hayley Debond was just 23-month-old when she suffered a fit and was rushed to intensive care. Despite efforts from doctors, the toddler
George Young is on the verge of quitting Witham Town. The flame-haired manager who has kept Witham in the Ryman Division Two was unhappy after being refused a bigger budget for next season. But after being told to make an instant decision on his future
Basildon pensioner Sid Chaney has boasted of how he fleeced credit card giant American Express out of £7,000 - and gave it all away. The campaigning pensioner spent £1,800 on the elderly and £1,500 on Laindon youngsters in a protest against "greedy" bank
Residents reporting swarms of mysterious black flies in parts of Colchester have been told: "Don't be afraid". The black insects known as St Mark's flies have prompted residents to contact the council environmental health team. Colin Daines, Colchester
The girl's gymnastics team at Great Totham Primary School have won their second National Final in six weeks. The girls took the national title of the under-11 floor and vault Championships held at the Riverside Centre in Chelmsford. The team competed
A new girls' football team have surprised even themselves with a truly magnificent debut season. Hawkwell Athletic under-11s, who play at Hockley Community Centre, won the Essex League by seven points - then beat runners-up Cobra 4-2 in the League Cup
Wildcat strikers again disrupted the mail in Brentwood this week following a similar dispute which hit deliveries last month. Post boxes throughout the area were cleared and sealed as a security measure on Monday and there were no residential deliveries
The danger in the skies above Brentwood has been starkly highlighted by the third near-collision between planes in the area in as many months. Safety experts are investigating the latest incident between a Boeing 737 and a Boeing 757 8,000ft above the
A frightened feline had to be rescued by firefighters after it became trapped in the suspension of a car. The cat had fled under the car after being found wandering around a building site in Hatterhill, Laindon, by a concerned animal lover who called
Families who had to put up with blaring music from a marathon 26-hour party today called for out-of-hours noise patrols on Canvey. People living in the normally quiet Little Gypps Road on the island had their weekend ruined when a neighbour's 21st birthday
Ipswich chairman David Sheepshanks is to take a back-seat role next season. The day-to-day running of the Portman Road club will instead fall upon the shoulders of a new chief executive. The club will advertise this new position. By then Sheepshanks hopes
Canvey Island will be entering the Ryman League's Premier Division next season boosted by the signing of a player who was making regular Nationwide Conference soccer appearances at the end of the current campaign. Midfielder Chris Duffy has agreed to
Stephen Peters or Ian Flanagan will fill the gap left by Nasser Hussain when Essex return to Championship action against Surrey at The Oval tomorrow. Both are in contention once more after being dropped following the opening match against Leicestershire
Lars Unger revealed today that he hoped to sign for a Nationwide First Division club in time for the start of next season. The 26-year-old midfielder, who has just returned home to German Second Division side Fortuna Dusseldorf after completing a loan
Blushing Billericay bride Gaynor Brodie lured her gobsmacked groom into a secretly booked wedding service just minutes after she popped the question. But far from fleeing in panic, her sweetheart, who had already asked for her hand on several occasions
