Braintree and Witham Times

Braintree district council will host a celebration event this week, after more than 11,000 individuals took part in the Beat the Street initiative.

Detectives who unravelled a “complex web of manipulation” to solve two murders on Mersea Island have been commended for their investigation.

Luke D'Wit was given a 37-year prison sentence following the murder of Stephen and Carol Baxter on Mersea Island in Essex.

MORE than 56,000 runners took part in the TC London Marathon on Sunday.

ITV will broadcast a documentary this evening about the murders of wealthy Essex couple Stephen and Carol Baxter by family friend Luke D'Wit.

The tearoom closed its doors last Friday and will remain shut 'until further notice'

Julie Watson, 65, died after a crash between a motorbike and a light goods Halstead Road, near High Garrett

The Love Your Bus Grant is part of the BSIP+ (Bus Service Improvement Plan) funding allocated to Essex County Council.

Kevin Coughlan, 40, broke into the car in December 2022 and led police on a chase which involved him driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway.

The video was produced by Ormiston Families, a charity in the East of England.

Firefighters were called to Epping Close at 6.32pm and two crews from Chelmsford attended after a fire had started in the garden of a two-storey house

Rob Adcock noticed Wizz Air's flight from London Luton Airport only offered a ticket with 20kg baggage included

Research has shown where the cheapest places to get a three-course meal are in Essex

BRAINTREE Council has approved 17 planning applications across the district this week.

A hate crime investigation has been launched by Essex Police after a woman was attacked with a rock and verbally abused by up to seven teenagers in Colchester.

Well-known TV personality Stacey Solomon has shared the 'biggest issue' in her marriage to Joe Swash after the pair are caught fighting.

An appeal has been launched for information on the whereabouts of a 23-year-old woman missing from the Chelmsford area.

Crews extinguished a thatch roof fire in Rayne.

The Bradwell site was considered "potentially suitable" for nuclear power by Chinese company CGN from 2015.

The East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which operates ambulances in Essex, spent more than £9million on overtime wages for crews last year.