Transport and Logistics Network
The B1018 Cressing Road between Witham and Braintree was closed in both directions[1] yesterday, April 27, after a crash which involved a bin lorry and a car.
A spokesperson for the East of England Ambulance Service confirmed one ambulance, an ambulanc…
Gio Desogus, 32, spent ten days in a coma and underwent 14 different operationsafter being involved in the terrifying smash with a 37 tonne HGV in 2007.
The mechanical engineer had been on his way home from working in Essex when the lorry veered onto t…
A knifeman barged his way into a man’s house and stabbed him in the hand after a row in a village pub. Ashley Hazelwood, 35, had been in an altercation with his victim in a pub in Halstead on August 5 last year.
He made verbal threats and attempted to …
Residents have described their Essex town losing their last banks as “horrendous”. Corringham used to have two banks and a post office, but will soon have nothing.
The town’s Barclays bank closed last year, and Lloyds will be closing this summer on Aug…
EXTINCTION Rebellion used a 14-tonne diesel lorry with a 6.7 litre engine to host one of its protest events in London yesterday, GB News can reveal.
The large vehicle was used by the group to stage one of their demonstrations as part of four days of a…
An elderly Essex cat had his life saved by an “extremely rare” operation to insert a pacemaker on his heart. The complex surgery to fix 12-year-old Alfie’s heart took place at Southfields Veterinary Specialists in Basildon, the first time the leading r…
A children’s charity says efforts must be made to stop children being placed in care far from their local communities. Children in care in England are, on average, placed more than 18 miles from home, the Become organisation said, as it warned that in …
A grieving Essex mum said she is filled with “extreme pain” every day after a drugged-up, speeding driver was jailed for causing the death of her son. Cheryl Marshall’s son Jake Blease was killed in a car crash in Cressing in September 2021, and she is…
A man accused of dangerous driving took his hands off the wheel multiple times before ramming into stationary traffic, a court has heard. Ivan Zhyhan has been accused of driving ‘dangerously’ on the M11 southbound on February 13, 2019 shortly before 10…
A multi-vehicle crash at a Clacton petrol station this morning (April 24) has left two people hospitalised. The incident happened at the Esso garage on London Road were emergency services were called shortly before 9.15 am.
Essex Police (EP), East of E…