Mourners are set to gather to honour Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota at a wake in Portugal on Friday morning, a local parish priest has said. Jota and his younger brother, Andre Silva, died in a car ...

TRAIN services are disrupted this morning after a fault with a signalling system. Greater Anglia trains have been facing disruption since 5.18am this morning after a fault between Ipswich and Needham ...

FORMER Colchester United winger Sylvester Jasper has a new club. The 23-year-old, who made 24 league and cup appearances for the U's, scoring three times, has joined Serbian top-flight side Železničar ...

More than 500 towns across England and Wales have signed up to the Home Office’s safer streets summer initiative, which will run to September 30 ...

Bridget Phillipson will decry ‘a national scandal’ when she speaks at a Government regional improvement conference on Friday.

While the Chelsea Flower Show may have passed, this week we’re celebrating its plant of the Year 2023 – Agapanthus ‘Black Jack’.

Closures scheduled to take place on the M25, A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some Essex drivers this weekend. Be aware.

Colchester Council has formally registered part of the Middlewick Ranges, a former MoD site, as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). The news comes as a relief after the MoD confirmed an offer had been ...

Kerry said her daughters knew she was a fan of drag queens so they invited the ‘Haus of Slaye’ from Colchester’s Dragonfly Lounge ...

Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill made him a standout performer in Quentin ...

A gang of thugs who made homemade “assassination kits” which were sent to the criminal underworld in Essex have been jailed for 60 years.

Beachgoers in Essex are being urged not to disturb nesting birds along the shore. Essex Police marine officers are tackling anti-social behaviour and promoting water safety along the coast.