The Latest Breaking News from Essex

In the twilight hours of June 21 1948, a weathered five-deck troopship transporting 1,027 passengers moored off Gravesend on the south bank of the river Thames. That evening, immigration officials would begin carefully processing those aboard. The following afternoon, passengers would walk off the gangplank, finally stepping foot on British…

Amber Turner has reportedly made the decision to halt filming for The Only Way Is Essex after she and her co-star Dan Edgar split after a six-year relationship

More thunder, lightning and heavy rain is on the way for many parts of the UK in the hours, after a lightning strike set light to a bungalow in the village of Corringham, Essex

There are fears Jaywick, an Essex seaside town regularly called the most deprived place in the UK, could be left underwater 'due to inadequate flood defences', threatening homes and people

Essex Police have worked with the authorities in Scotland to set up a method of quizzing Rossi about a ­relationship he had with Michelle Minnaar in 2017.

HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, 75 years ago this week in answer to a Government call to the Commonwealth to help rebuild the United Kingdom but hundreds were wrongly detained

Residents on an isolated Essex island have told how they "love being cut off" in their town at high tide and say that they have a "strong community" which is like "going back in time"

A risky investment strategy and ‘unconscious incompetence’ at Thurrock council in Essex led to a financial meltdown.

Bamburgh in Northumberland was named the best seaside destination in the UK - and on the opposite end of the scale were Skegness in Lincolnshire and Clacton-on-Sea in Essex