From passengers travelling without a train ticket to speeding offences, these south Essex residents and visitors have been sentenced at magistrates' courts in recent weeks. A MAN caught with two ...

Network Rail’s maintenance teams will be out in force during weekends in February and March to deliver essential work to keep ...

New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to 18 of Basildon’s establishments, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows.

A series of new planning applications have been submitted to Basildon Council over the past week, including new signage at a ...

We asked Echo readers to share their favourite dog-friendly pubs in south Essex, and three spots stood out above the rest.

A closure order has been slapped on a Laindon house following a year’s worth of “relentlessly” disruptive behaviour ...

A grandmother from Laindon has slammed an Essex hospital’s A&E for being filthy” and “atrocious” after waiting 12 hours to be ...

An e-scooter trial is due to be abandoned in a town after councillors warned they had become a risk to public safety. Labour ...

A huge 750-home estate, with “at least 1,200 extra residents”, is set to be built in south Essex, as developers ...

More rail stations in the East of England are set to allow contactless payments at barriers. A further 15 stations in Essex, 11 in Hertfordshire, two in Buckinghamshire and one in Bedfordshire ...