The Latest Breaking News from Essex

Mental health deaths inquiry hears about ‘denial and defensiveness’

The falsification of safety records was ‘well known within the Essex context’, the Lampard Inquiry was told.

Evening Standard · May 12, 2025

Foakes hits unbeaten century while Sussex see off Worcestershire

Join Tanya Aldred for all the latest from the final day of the latest round of County Championship matches

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2025

Notts beat Hampshire, Essex v Yorkshire and more: county cricket – as it happened

There were thumping wins for Notts, Northants and Glamorgan on day three of the latest Championship round

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2025

Scotland set for 'once in a decade' Northern Lights display this year

The Aurora Borealis stunned the nation last year, with dazzling light displays being visible as far south as Dorset, Essex, Cambridgeshire and…

The National (Scotland) · Apr 30, 2025

The Essex Millionaire Murders review – absolutely grim and astonishing true-crime TV

The circumstances of Carol and Stephen Baxter’s deaths in 2023 were so baffling, and so hideous, that everyone involved in the case can barely hold it together as they relive it. What a horrific world

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

What happened to Stephen and Carol Baxter?

Ahead of ITV’s The Essex Millionaire Murders, who is the Baxter couple and what caused their tragic deaths?

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025

Former Wes Streeting aide who exposed himself to girl avoids jail sentence

Samuel Gould has been forbidden from contacting girls under 18 for seven years

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2025

Mental health deaths inquiry to ‘confront big and difficult questions head on’

The Lampard Inquiry is examining deaths at NHS-run inpatient units in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025

Mental health inquiry into patient deaths to hear from health and safety execs

Hundreds died while under the care of the Essex Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust and the North East London Foundation Trust.

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2025

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A gosling grows up; a campaign to save trees; the impact of partition; thorny dilemmas; wearing a hijab in Essex and more

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2025