Braintree and Witham Times

According to the Essex Traffic Control Centre, the A12 northbound is partially blocked on the Kelvedon Bypass, between J23 and J24.

Colchester Zoo is set to launch its Christmas advert on Monday to help global conservation efforts with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the zoo’s daily life.

An ambulance crew whose quick thinking helped save a woman trapped by a ferocious fire in Clacton have been commended by bosses.

Two Braintree veterans visited Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome to mark Remembrance Day.

A campsite set on the fun-filled Hill Farm in Essex has been crowned as a top family campsite in the East of England.

Christopher Murray, 33, was taking a set of pallets to Olivers Nurseries in Witham when he struck elderly cyclist Dennis Miller in Maldon Road.

The Scissor Sisters have been announced for part of Heritage Live’s summer festival at Audley End Estate, in Saffron Walden.

Young people in Essex have named knife crime as their top safety concern as part of the Violence and Vulnerability Unit's Listening Project.

The grey Range Rover smashed into the side of the Tesco Express, in Crouch Street, earlier this morning.

Sam will join TV chef Big Zuu, former footballer Jill Scott, actress Rose Ayling-Ellis and lexicographer Susie Dent in the Taskmaster New Years Treat special

Terry’s Antiques and Secondhand shop, in Station Road, Walton, has announced it will be closing tomorrow.

The British Medical Association (BMA) called strike action from 7am today (November 14) to 7am on November 19.

Essential upgrades have been completed at Witham Public Hall as part of a £1.5m investment in community facilities.

VisitEngland has revealed the winners of its Visitor Attraction Accolades for 2024-2025, recognising "excellence within the visitor attraction sector".

THE BOSS of a Colchester organisation which helps the vulnerable is campaigning for a life-saving piece of kit to be made mandatory in all schools in order to “safeguard children’s lives.”

A new app which will link police with retailers will give officers an 'enormous advantage' in tackling shoplifting.

Braintree’s MP James Cleverly has received his knighthood after being named in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list for "political and public service".

A man who set fire to curtains, clothes and a mattress on his parents' property has been spared jail.

A man who imported 2kg of class B drugs from the US demonstrated "immaturity and naivety" in being involved in criminality, a court heard.

A man is wanted on recall to prison after being sentenced as part of a wounding investigation.