Chelmsford Weekly News

Train services have been cancelled or disrupted this evening after all lines were blocked between Liverpool Street and Shenfield.

All traffic has been held on the M25 clockwise following a collision at Junction 27 for the M11.

Eleven criminals have been put behind bars across Essex so far this month, from domestic abusers and burglars to dangerous drivers and serious sexual criminals.

Essex and Suffolk Water have issued an update on their hosepipe ban after the county experienced its first rainfall in weeks following a dry period.

Police have suspended a search for a missing man following the discovery of a body in Ingrave.

A Bangladeshi and Indian takeaway has been named the best takeaway in Essex at the England’s Business Awards.

Two Humboldt penguin chicks born at Colchester Zoo on Star Wars Day have been given fitting names after staff confirmed they are a male and female.

Two teenagers have died after a car left the road and crashed into woodland in Essex.

A drug dealer who hid cocaine inside a roll-on deodorant has been jailed for three years after being stopped by Essex Police.

Temperatures in parts of Essex could plunge as low as 7C overnight this weekend, following a run of recent hot weather.

A 78-year-old man has been reported missing from Ingrave in Essex.

Former PC Kieran O’Connor has been dismissed after a misconduct panel found he had engaged in an "inappropriate relationship" with an abuse victim.

A 15-year-old boy, who has been accused of murdering 12-year-old Bobby Bloomfield in Pilgrims Hatch, has pleaded not guilty.

A pilot remains in hospital after sustaining life-changing but not life-threatening injuries during an air show at Stow Maries near Purleigh.

A dangerous burglar who held a 78-year-old woman at knifepoint in her home has been jailed for eight years.

The RSPCA appeal has been launched after the bodies of two dead puppies were found near a block of flats in Chelmsford.

Greater Anglia have launched a rail shuttle services and bus replacement services for passengers in south Essex following a train derailment in Wickford.

Rain is finally on the horizon for Essex after weeks of relentless heat this summer.

Nathan Behrens, 21, of Braintree, has been jailed for 16 years after admitting to eight child sexual offences.

Firefighters will return to the scene of a major warehouse blaze to continue their work today (Monday, August 17).