Braintree and Witham Times

Today’s coverage of the inquests into the deaths of four university students involved in a car crash in February.

With 300 metres and more than 40 obstacles, The Monster at Braintree Village is certainly a challenge to conquer.

The fire service has praised a little girl who helped prevent a forest fire in Witham.

The shake-up proposes replacing the current 15 authorities with just three all-purpose unitary councils.

Some closures from July 18 to 20 on the M25 and Dartford Crossing may affect some Essex drivers this weekend.

A Halstead man has been sentenced for running over a pub landlord at his car park.

Runners took part in the Livewell Bocking Blackwater 3K fun run and duck race in Braintree to raise money for Promise of Hope.

Coleman said he understood “race traitor” to mean someone who was friends or in a relationship with a “non-white” person.

“This is why all councils affected by this announcement have come together to urge the government to reconsider this decision and engage with us to find a viable solution.

A teenager hailed balaclava-clad gunmen “coming to England soon” before he was caught buying a weapon in an MI5 sting, a court has heard.

A yellow weather warning has been issued for the east of England ahead of “heavy, thundery rain”.

Police enquiries continue after a man shouted racial abuse at and damaged a hotel in Essex.

Local voices are helping shape National Grid’s Norwich to Tilbury project.

Essex Police is treating an investigation into a serious assault as “racially aggravated”.

Officers arrested a man in Essex after reports of a male acting inappropriately towards a number of people.

Members of the Essex Caring Communities Commission met with MPs at the House of Commons to address issues facing health and social care.

All flights to and from the airport were halted on Sunday afternoon following the crashing of a medical transport plane in which all four passengers, a commander, pilot, a doctor and a flight nurse, died.

A NUMBER of car boot sales are taking place across Essex this month.

There are several RSPCA branches in the county, along with the affiliated Danaher Animal Home, all with animals looking for homes.

Councillor Beverley Egan, chairwoman of the Essex Caring Communities Commission, writes exclusively for the Gazette about their plans to tackle health and social care