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The Honey Bees Futures Academy has launched to celebrate a 10-year partnership between Braintree Village and First Stop Centre.

Authorities have arrested 34 people following the pre-dawn shootout in Overasselt, which local media have linked to notorious drug lord Jos Leijdekkers, who is also known as 'Fat Jos'.

Sean Ono Lennon and girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl have announced the birth of their baby boy.

Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'

Crowds turned out in force for Witham's inaugural Summer Fair along the River Walk.

A Colombian woman who was left disfigured and in need of countless medical treatments after her husband hurled acid at her is seeking euthanasia. 

There were Postcode Lottery winners across Essex last month, including in Colchester, Brentwood and Chelmsford, each landing £1,000.

M&S is closing its Walton-on-the-Naze store for good this month after announcing the closure earlier this year.

The Essex County Christmas Fair is returning to Boreham House in Chelmsford to get families ready for their festive celebrations.

Popeyes will launch at 38 High Street on Friday, September 11, as part of the new Minerva House development in the former Marks & Spencer building.

A beloved Harlow pub is set to close its doors tomorrow marking the end of an era for many regulars.

Seasonal sweets, chocolate tubs, advent calendars and traditional Christmas treats have started to fill a dedicated aisle in this store.

A new route promising an escape to “La Isla Bonita” from Stansted Airport is set to launch within weeks.

A dark-web identity theft service called Nexus claims to be selling scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses, along with millions of other identity documents. "Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase through the service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely used Louisiana-based identity verification company," reports KrebsOnSecurity. The outlet also reports that the FBI's New Orleans field office has launched an official inquiry into the source of the images. From the report: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 million people in North America. The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit. The service, dubbed Nexus, claims to have more than 153 million drivers licenses for people in the United States and Canada, as well as more than 10 million identification cards; more than three million travel documents and/or international IDs; and at least 579,000 medical cards. [...] The people behind Nexus claim the license images are coming from an active breach at "a major identity verification company" whose customers include multiple Fortune 500 companies. "We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database," the service enthused in its introductory post on Exploit. "Records are available to preview before purchase with pertinent information redacted. Customer photos are displayed if available." Indeed, over the past 24 hours, the number of drivers license records listed as available in Nexus has increased by nearly 400,000, suggesting that freshly stolen license data is being harvested and uploaded to this service on a semi-regular basis. KrebsOnSecurity traced the apparent source by comparing timestamps on stolen license images with when their owners had their IDs scanned, including at Hertz rental counters and a Planet13 dispensary. Both companies use identity-verification services from Louisiana-based idscan.net, whose technology also scans IDs using infrared and ultraviolet light. Since the story was published, Krebs reports that the Nexus identity theft service website "vanished from the darkweb, replacing its login page with a plain text message that reads, 'This service is no longer available.'"

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There were Postcode Lottery winners across Essex last month, including in Colchester, Brentwood and Chelmsford, each landing £1,000.

M&S is closing its Walton-on-the-Naze store for good this month after announcing the closure earlier this year.

The Essex County Christmas Fair is returning to Boreham House in Chelmsford to get families ready for their festive celebrations.

Popeyes will launch at 38 High Street on Friday, September 11, as part of the new Minerva House development in the former Marks & Spencer building.

A beloved Harlow pub is set to close its doors tomorrow marking the end of an era for many regulars.