Essex teen going for gold at youth waterski European Championships
A teen from Gosfield, who attends Colchester Institute is going for gold at the Youth Waterski Championships in Spain next week.
'I cried with shock' - Timberlake superfan gets engaged at Essex concert
Owen Stewart, from Southend, asked his partner, Emma Chapman, to marry him at the Chelmsford City Live show.
Residents say A12 is 'not fit for purpose' after government abandons £1.2b scheme
Residents said the A12 is in desperate need of a third carriageway after the government’s U-turn on a £1.2billion widening scheme.
Jamie Dimon's Blunt Message for Europe: 'You're Losing'
An anonymous reader shares a report: JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon did not pull his punches when he spoke at Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs.
"You're losing," he said of European competitiveness with the U.S. and Asia, in comments reported by the Financial Times. "Europe has gone from 90% U.S. GDP to 65% over 10 or 15 years. That's not good."
"We've got this huge, strong market and our companies are big and successful, have huge kinds of scale that are global. You have that, but less and less," Dimon said on Thursday.
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Our TV experts have picked the 20 hottest shows and...
Seeking refuge from the heat this weekend? What could be better than a line-up of the 20 hottest shows and films available to stream as temperatures continue to soar across the country?
Low levels of a key nutrient tied to cancer...are YOU taking enough of it?
Low levels of a key nutrient found in sunlight and some foods may be linked to anxiety, bone disease and some forms of cancer, experts and recent research have revealed.
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Reeves has U-turned on plans to slash the cash Isa allowance (for now at least) - this is what I fear she'll do next
With every day and night of her Chancellorship that goes by, Rachel from Accounts is transmogrifying into U-turn Rachel.
GPs told to prescribe gym sessions and job centre appointments to get sicknote Britain back to work
GPs will be told to stop signing sick notes and instead send patients to the gym or a job centre in a bid to tackle the sicknote epidemic.
Cycling race is engulfed by punch controversy as leader appears to HIT out at rival in final sprint
Swiss rider Reusser, who is currently 16 seconds ahead of closest rival Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy, was hit with disciplinary action after the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia Women on Thursday.
Braintree power cut leaves almost 100 residents without electricity
A POWER cut in Braintree has seen almost 100 residents lose electricity.
Schoolboy Harvey Willgoose told friend 'If he tries anything I'll smash him all over' - shortly before 15-year-old stabbed him to death, court hears
The 15-year-old died after he was stabbed by another boy at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, on February 3.
Romeo Beckham adds fuel to the fire with apparent dig at brother Brooklyn after 'blocking' him on Instagram amid explosive family feud
Romeo Beckham poured more fuel to the fire with a savage dig towards Brooklyn, hours after friends told MailOnline Cruz and Romeo blocked their brother and Nicola Peltz on Instagram.
Bomb squad search area as major road is closed after police shot gas masked chainsaw-wielding plumber
Sean O'Meara, 36, was shot outside his parents' home in Hollingbourne, near Maidstone, Kent, at around 7.15pm on Monday after police were called to the property over an outstanding warrant.
Crews prevent fire from spreading to "dozens" of homes in Braintree
CREWS prevented a fire from spreading to "dozens of homes" in Braintree earlier today.
Oasis fans are ALREADY queuing for first of five sold-out Heaton Park reunion gigs after Noel and Liam Gallagher touched down on home soil
The band are set to play in front of 80,000 people in their home city of Manchester on Friday after kicking off their world tour in Cardiff last week.
Drivers caught speeding across Braintree district despite "high-visibility" officers
ESSEX police caught drivers speeding across the Braintree district this week, including one driver going 11 mph above the limit.
Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it
One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds
A survey of PostgreSQL users has found that the levels of uptime experienced using cloud providers falls well short of their expectations in terms of reliability.…
HMD 'Scaling Back' in the US, Killing Nokia All Over Again
An anonymous reader shares a report: HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand for new phones and tablets over the last decade, has announced that it will "scale back" its US operations, and appears to have stopped selling both HMD and Nokia devices entirely.
[...] Based in Finland, HMD was formed in 2016 in order to purchase the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014. It also secured a license to use the Nokia name on smartphones and tablets, with a focus on affordable and midrange hardware.
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Jacqueline Jossa won't receive a penny of the five-figure sum she is owed by InTheStyle after the collapse of the fast fashion brand which has debts of £21million
The EastEnders favourite was one of the faces of the once successful firm and was rumoured to have inked a £1million deal.
Beware the CHEATWAVE! Sunny weather triggers a massive spike in cheating - as 'sundrunk' Brits lose their inhibitions, experts warn
The UK is expected to record more scorching temperatures over the next few days. And Brits are likely to get hot and bothered in more ways than one, experts have warned.