1975: The Red Hand Commandos, a secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, explode a no-warning car bomb in Dundalk, ...

Leyton Orient head into their Sky Bet League One festive fixtures in pretty good shape. Former O’s frontman, Peter Kitchen ...

Plans for a large solar farm on 66 hectares of Chelmsford green belt has been allowed at appeal. The proposal with capacity ...

Brian Jeeves previews Southend United’s festive Vanarama National League fixtures… York City v Southend United (21/12/24) LNER Community S ...

Ray Crawford previews Colchester United’s festive Sky Bet League Two fixtures… Crewe Alexandra v Colchester United (20/12/24) Moonflake St ...

Commuters are set to be offered special parking rates next year in a move to encourage drivers to use the Southend Pass and fill an “empty” car park near a railway station.

West Ham United v Liverpool (29/12/24) London Stadium (5:15pm) Although Julen Lopetegui’s future at West Ham United remains unclear, there have been sporadic signs that the Spaniard is starting to ...

The reporting of incidents on an NHS ward where a patient took her own life should have been more consistent, a court has heard. Alice Figueiredo, 22, died as an in-patient on the Hepworth ward in ...

BC: Hannibal’s Carthaginian army heavily defeats Roman forces on Italian soil during the Second Punic War. 1621: Parliament ...

Junior Morias’ late goal clinched the points for Dagenham & Redbridge in a 1-0 win over Rochdale at the Chigwell Construction Stadium. With the game looking to be heading towards a stalemate, Dion ...

Chelmsford City Council has said charges for kerbside garden waste collections are now needed to help plug its budget gap.

An Essex council has “very serious failings” in how it maintains its rented housing and had a “failure” to demonstrate ...