The Latest Breaking News from Billericay

200th banking hub opens with chocolate coins marking the event

Visitors to the hub in Billericay in Essex can explore a display of coins made from chocolate.

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2025

Woman arrested after police find bodies of 37 dogs at Essex home

Ovaeed Rahman, of Hope Road in Crays Hill, Billericay, was last month charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025

London woman, 25, arrested after 37 dead dogs found at 'rescue centre'

Officers discovered the 37 dead dogs during a visit with the RSPCA to what was believed to be a rescue centre in Crays Hill, Billericay, last month

Evening Standard · Jun 5, 2025

New blow to Sunak as Tory members demand special meeting to deselect his party chairman as a candidate

Richard Holden, the Tory party chairman tasked with winning Sunak the general election, is facing a revolt in the constituency he was imposed on just 24 hours ago

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2024

There’s no distance these Conservative heroes won’t travel to serve … themselves

Richard Holden shows his mettle with a shock appearance on the Basildon and Billericay ballot, a Tory safe seat

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024

Tory chair chosen to stand in safe seat 300 miles from former constituency

Local members voice anger in Basildon and Billericay, where Richard Holden was put forward as only candidate at last minute

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024

Essex Tories had ‘gun to head’ to accept ‘unwanted’ party chair as their candidate

Details are emerging of how senior Conservative members in Basildon and Billericay were forced to accept party chair Richard Holden as their candidate on Wednesday night

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2024

Hit-and-run cowards in Essex left new dad with ‘catastrophic’ brain injury

The victim has no short-term memory and is barely able to recognise his newborn baby

Evening Standard · Jan 23, 2024

Alison & Larry: Billericay to Barry review – the dullest celebrity travel show of all time

Are Gavin and Stacey co-stars Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb even friends? You can’t tell from this mind-bendingly banal failure of a series. Who is responsible for this flop?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2023

TV tonight: old friends from Gavin & Stacey take a ride from Billericay to Barry

Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb reunite for an electrically powered journey. Plus, more reunions with Davina McCall. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2023