Colleges and training providers in Essex are invited to bid for a share of the £900,000 Skills and Innovation Capital Fund.

A second satirical candidate calling himself Mr Fishfinger has entered the Clacton by-election. The site engineer in Doncaster is running in the race triggered by the shock resignation of Nigel Farage ...

Our murder inquiry is in its early stages but moving at a significant pace. We are deploying all of the necessary resources to find out exactly what has happened and to locate ...

FREE swimming sessions are being offered in Braintree to help residents stay cool and active during the hot weather. Braintree Council has partnered with Freedom Leisure to offer the cooling sessions ...

Bafta-winning actor Micheal Ward has been cleared of raping a woman in the back of a Mercedes after meeting her outside a new year party. The star, 28, denied assaulting the woman in his friend’s car ...

Police are investigating the death of former MP and minister Ann Widdecombe. The ex-Tory prisons minister, who was 78, later became a Brexit Party MEP and subsequently a Reform UK spokeswoman. She ...

Story about nurse posted on MP’s social media accounts is ‘fictional’ Last month a story about a nurse called Maya and her struggle to find affordable housing was posted on Labour MP Sureena ...