Andy Burnham has vowed to give people “hope back” and “the Labour they once knew” as he officially became the party’s new ...

A wanted man was arrested just minutes after officers deployed live facial recognition technology in Greenstead.

A letter to the editor of the Colchester Gazette has stressed that water supplies will improve amid the heatwave.

An 11-year-old boy who died following a collision in Ongar has been described by his family as a "bright light".

Firefighters are spending a third day tackling a major wildfire which has led to evacuations in the Cairngorms. The fire started in heathland at Ryvoan Bothy, near Nethy Bridge, late on Wednesday ...

Stacey Solomon's hit BBC show Sort Your Life Out has wrapped filming for its seventh season and is already looking ahead to an eighth.

COLCHESTER United continue their pre-season efforts this weekend with two games against Essex non-league sides. The U’s ...

Two professionals from Dancing With The Stars have opened a new studio in Belfast to make dancing part of the “social fabric” in Northern Ireland. The married couple say House of Motion, on the ...

A man has been sentenced for the murder of a father who was fatally stabbed. Ellis Heather, 25, formerly of Taplow, ...

The company pleaded guilty to 13 offences last April over sewage discharges at Margate and Broadstairs wastewater pumping stations.

Vulnerable people and priority customers are among those exempt from the latest hosepipe bans. Hosepipe bans have been enforced in Essex and surrounding areas by Affinity Water and Anglian Water.

Francis Donaldson, 22, was denied bail as he appeared in court over the collision in Belfast which killed Raven Adams, 24.