A lorry driver has been arrested after a van driver died in a head-on crash. Crash scene - emergency crews at the scene of the crash between a van and a lorry on the A120 Coggeshall Road at Little Tey. Picture: STEVE BRADING 40669-f Michael Motley, of
Generous Chamber members have been quick to respond to an appeal by Essex Chambers to help victims of the tsunami disaster and have to date donated £1790.50. In addition to this, Chamber member Travel Services have raised in the region of £1500 for the
THE under-16 girls from Basildon's Woodlands School are having their best netball season for 17 years. Having been District winners and County runners-up, the girls qualified for the regional finals. And they did superbly to finish runners-up to qualify
A karate teacher, who admitted assaulting a police officer while being drunk and disorderly, has received a community punishment order. Connie Payne, 26, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court yesterday for sentencing. She had admitted the charges
Clacton's inshore lifeboat crew was called out to help an angling boat after it suffered engine failure off Jaywick. Three people were on board the Don't Panic which was towed back into Bradwell. Clacton coastguard unit was also sent to the incident at
A fuel tank burst into flames as it was being cut in half ready to be taken away. The 12,000 gallon tank, used to store diesel to heat greenhouses in a garden in Straight Road, Boxted, had been drained but residue fuel left inside caught fire due to the
A student was today nursing a broken tooth and cuts after being beaten and robbed while walking home. Chris Rickard, 17, of Bowers Gifford, was surrounded by a gang of six or seven teenagers who stole his wallet and threatened to stab him and a friend
Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers. Mark Hughes' side were the third Premiership team that Colchester had faced this year and everyone who made the trip to Ewood Park were hoping they were going
Basildon Hospital today launched an appeal for £100,000 to provide an overnight unit so families can stay close to their sick children. With £300,000 already raised, building work on the Ronald McDonald House will start on Friday. But to complete the
Cinema staff are mopping up after a leak flooded a special party room. Colchester's Odeon cinema has been forced to cancel functions after an upstairs toilet flooded last week. Team leader Adam Austin-Andrew said: "The ladies loo flooded right above our
Father-of-three Steven Price told how he rescued a neighbour who had set his own house on fire. Wearing only a dressing gown Mr Price leapt over a garden fence and into a smoke-filled kitchen to save Peter Dalton, an old school friend. Heroic Mr Price
A judge has told a man caught with thousands of child porn pictures not to return to his home - which overlooks a school. Nicholas Dinnen - police found more than 18,000 pictures of children on his computer. 40810-2 Police found more than 18,000 pictures
Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers. Mark Hughes' side were the third Premiership team that Colchester had faced this year and everyone who made the trip to Ewood Park were hoping they were going
Mersea Island's win against bottom-placed Thetford may not have been pretty, but the result was the all-important factor. The game was closely, but it was the Islanders' first triumph of 2005 and meant they ended a run of four consecutive defeats to move
Three men were brutally beaten in an unprovoked attack outside a kebab van in Basildon. The men, two of whom were with their partners when the attack happened, were set upon by a gang of seven to nine youths near to Fairhouse Community Junior School,
Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers. Mark Hughes' side were the third Premiership team that Colchester had faced this year and everyone who made the trip to Ewood Park were hoping they were going
A sharp-eyed shopkeeper, who alerted CCTV operators, was the key to tracing three missing boys. The woman called the CCTV suite after spotting Ben Wilson, and Rhys and Drew Hennebry, all from Witham, in Colchester's Sir Isaac's Walk. Then operators tracked
A mum punched a police officer while being arrested for being drunk in charge of her baby and two year-old son, a court heard. Police officers were called to St Mark's Court, Southchurch Avenue, Southend, after a member of the public became concerned
An elderly couple had an extraordinary escape after their car came off the Army and Navy flyover and landed on its roof. The accident happened at about 2.20pm yesterday and caused traffic chaos for Chelmsford motorists. The 85-year-old man and his 84-
Joe Dunne wants his Colchester United youngsters to put in another gutsy display as they bid to make the quarter-finals of the FA Youth Cup. And they will need steely determination to get past their next opponents, Crewe Alexandra, in the fifth round
The sister of a man who bludgeoned their mother to death with a hammer and stamped on her head said he deserved his life sentence. Daughter and son - Jean Dicker's children Tracy and Steve pictured at a press conference when police were still after the
Sarah Claxton stormed to her second personal best of the year at the Five-Nations tournament in Glasgow. The Belgrave Harriers athlete and life member of Colchester and Tendring Athletics Club clocked 8.05 seconds in the 60 metres to secure third place
Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers. Mark Hughes' side were the third Premiership team that Colchester had faced this year and everyone who made the trip to Ewood Park were hoping they were going
A man has died in a fire in Witham. Scene - the bungalow today. 40798-2 Police discovered the 64-year-old's body at 1.35pm yesterday, following a blaze at a home in Pattison Close. A fire service spokesman said "early indications" were that the fire was
BASILDON's Carly Waters has helped Great Britain's women's footballers to a bronze medal in the recent Deaflympics event in Australia. The squad took their medal with a 2-1 extra time win over Denmark in the third-place play-off at the end of a gruelling
Colchester gained two valuable points after winning this closely-contested match. They started the better of the two sides, immediately pushing their visitors back with sound rucking and good continuity. Colchester retained possession well and, after
A man has been jailed for four months after drinking 25 pints of lager before driving. Kevin Gill, 35, of Stalin Road, was involved in a crash near his home on Sunday, Colchester Magistrates' Court heard. Maria Jabati, prosecuting, said police were called
The parents of a teenager who died after a 13-year battle with brain tumours today paid tribute to their "incredible" child. "A real fighter" - Nicole Dring with a picture of her daughter Nadia, taken about the time of her 18th birthday. Picture: ROB
Shoplifting groceries because he did not have any money to pay for them left a man with six days in prison. David Wake, 37, of Penfold Road, Clacton, put meat and cheese in to a bag and tried to leave Lidl in St Osyth Road, Clacton, without paying the
A drink driver was today starting six years behind bars after killing a Westcliff man as he drove on the wrong side of a dual-carriageway. Gary Drain, 37, committed a "horrific and most wicked" offence in killing 55-year-old Anthony Nisbet on August 14
Joe Dunne wants his Colchester United youngsters to put in another gutsy display as they bid to make the quarter-finals of the FA Youth Cup. And they will need steely determination to get past their next opponents, Crewe Alexandra, in the fifth round
A man who hit a security guard because he thought a woman was in danger has been given a community punishment order. Richard Killin, 38, was at Orchard Caravan Park in Clacton, on May 15 when he saw security guards trying to remove a woman from the bar
A community worker has told how happy she is since having cosmetic surgery as part of a TV programme aiming to knock years off her age. Debbie Rotchell, 49, of Main Road, Harwich, said she was delighted to have been picked to feature on the Channel Four
Colchester United's FA Cup campaign came to a sad and disappointing end at Blackburn Rovers. Mark Hughes' side were the third Premiership team that Colchester had faced this year and everyone who made the trip to Ewood Park were hoping they were going
Essex University is preparing a bid to ensure Colchester is first in the queue if the Government decides a new medical school is needed in Britain. Senior academics have held high-level talks with health Trust bosses over plans that could see Colchester
SOUTHEND United supremo Ron Martin is set to fight FIFA's decision to impose a transfer window in the lower leagues from the start of next season. The game's governing body is keen to enforce the agreement - which has been used in the Premiership for
Conmen followed an elderly woman into her home and forced her to hand over cash. Her ordeal, in Wood Lane, Fordham Heath, began after the victim refused to pay for driveway work they had done without asking. A Colchester police spokesman said a white
Councillors have deferred a review of planning refusal for three new houses in Halstead. Braintree Council's regulatory committee had been du to decide whether to accept the Halstead area committee's refusal of planning permission for the three detached
CANVEY boss Jeff King slammed his side's "diabolical defending"as the Islanders crashed to their seventh successive Conference away defeat at Dagenham and Redbridge last night. Against a side they had beaten 4-2 on home territory exactly a month earlier
Aspiring entrepreneurs can get a helping hand in getting their own businesses up and running for free. The Business Awareness Event will tell residents of the Maldon district everything they need to know about starting a new company or expanding an existing
SOUTHEND put more breathing space between themselves and the relegation zone by beating visitors Old Patesians by the most slender of margins. But it took a Great Escape act from the Seasiders to win the points after they had made another sloppy start
Another trucker landed himself in a "lorry bother" after trying to squeeze his HGV through the narrow streets of Colchester's medieval Dutch Quarter. Julia Sealey was woken by the rumble of the Wilkinson's lorry just before 1am today. "The ground was
