The Latest Breaking News from Essex

Surprise visit to club by ‘impeccably behaved’ occupants of Wethersfield airbase prompts villagers to tighten admission policy for New Year’s Eve

The White Hart Inn’s leaseholders closed up after police launched an investigation, before taking no further action

Marc Jones' disappearance is said to be 'completely out of character'

A man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after crashing his car into a house in Essex on Christmas Day.

Baker stands by 2006 rom-com that got negative reviews upon release

Exclusive: ‘They are destroying and taking away my life,’ says Nicholas Thornton, who remains trapped in an Essex mental health unit

The former foreign secretary, 54, jetted into Rwanda this week in his new role as the man in charge of bringing down Britain's record immigration levels. Katie Strick charts his career so far

Danny Macklin, who left his role at AFC Wimbledon in September, went missing in Essex

When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children – mostly from Jewish families – would arrive in Britain via the same process.

Vasile Balcovei dropped smuggled Romanians at an Essex petrol station

Two 17-year-old girls were attacked by Benfleet Railway Station