Archive
-
Date
Decathlon: ASICS to foot the bill for Macey
Dean Macey is now reaping the rewards of his 1999 IAAF World Championship decathlon silver medal win in the Estadio Olympico, Seville. At a press conference held earlier this week, Canvey Islander Macey, 22, from Canvey Island, announced he had signed
-
Date
Speedway is saved!
Arena Essex has been saved - that was the welcome news to emerge from Thursday's press conference at the club to give the speedway team's followers an early Christmas present. A three man consortium has taken over the speedway operation and there will
-
Date
Soccer: Burley plans an FA Cup upset
Ipswich boss George Burley is looking at the FA Cup third round clash against Southampton on Monday night as a benchmark for Premiership soccer. The Town chief is confident his squad can live with the big boys if they get promoted to the top flight at
-
Date
Soccer: Billericay beating all-comers
Billericay Town's third successive victory away from home, all within an eight day period, was secured on Saturday, in very cold and windy conditions. The matchday programme notes from the hosts' Chairman suggested that this was Boreham Wood's most important
-
Date
Canvey OAPs: 'Home move is killing us'
Residents living in an old people's complex due to be demolished claim the stress is "killing" them. Shocked occupants of Little Gypps Court on Canvey said the worry of finding a new home was making them ill. Many of the residents, in their 80s and 90s
-
Date
Rayleigh: Millennium clock stops
Rayleigh's much-heralded millennium clock, which was designed to see in the new century in style . . . has stopped! The state-of-the-art timepiece in the High Street was launched in a blaze of glory just over three weeks ago as the Christmas lights were
-
Date
Basketball: Saints record falls
SOUTHEND SAINTS.............50 SCORPIONS.........................58 The final undefeated record in the Essex Men's Basketball League sadly came to an end. Home favourites Southend Saints went down to their local rivals Scorpions in a thrilling encounter
-
Date
£15m Thurrock drug bust
Police and customs officers have dealt a major blow in the fight against drug dealers in south Essex after seizing heroin with a street value of £15 million. They believe they have made a sizeable hole in plans to flood the area with drugs for the Christmas
-
Date
Soccer: Swifts revival keeps rolling
(Ryman League Premier Division) Current Swifts' caretaker managers Liam Cutbush and Tony Adcock have now officially applied for the joint post as a permanent partnership and with the full support of the players, after four wins in four games, including
-
Date
Prize joy for Braintree farmworker
A farmworker from Braintree who is facing redundancy has been handed a lifeline by winning a £70,000 tractor. Neill Cowie, 35, from Beatty Gardens, is to lose his job at the 216-acre Mill Farms at Stisted where he has worked for a number of years. The
-
Date
Maldon: Reward for hero Robert
Maldon hero Robert Wadwell, who rescued three people from a burning building earlier this year, sustaining brain injuries in the attempt, is to receive another award. Last week Robert, 20, of Coleridge Road, was presented with the Order of St John's silver
-
Date
Chelmsford university defends drop-out rate
Anglia Polytechnic University has defended its high student drop out rates, revealed last week in the first official league tables for higher education. According to performance indicators, compiled by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
-
Date
Chelmsford university defends drop-out rate
Anglia Polytechnic University has defended its high student drop out rates, revealed last week in the first official league tables for higher education. According to performance indicators, compiled by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
-
Date
Driver escapes Rayleigh smash
The driver of this lorry which overturned outside the Traveller's Joy pub in Rayleigh escaped with just minor bruising. The lorry struck another vehicle as it turned over but miraculously the driver was the only person injured in the accident. A spokesman
-
Date
Westcliff man chains himself to Treasury
A disgruntled bank customer chained himself to the entrance of the Treasury in London to protest against bank charges. Victor Tassell, 59, of Whitefriars Crescent, Westcliff, said he and four other men would stay at the building in Whitehall until a Government
-
Date
Soccer: Billericay beating all-comers
Billericay Town's third successive victory away from home, all within an eight day period, was secured on Saturday, in very cold and windy conditions. The matchday programme notes from the hosts' Chairman suggested that this was Boreham Wood's most important
-
Date
Soccer: Fans slam Blues' chief's salary
Southend United chief executive Peter Storrie's mammoth £120,000 a-year salary was the main topic of conversation at a Blues fans' forum. Storrie, who endured calls for his head from the terraces during Southend's last league fixture at Plymouth Argyle
-
Date
Harold: Police hunt for sex pest
Police fearing the re-emergence of a paedophile presence in the Harold area are pleading for information from witnesses who saw a man offer two 10-year-old boys money in return for sex acts in an alleyway. The two boys were playing in the alley in Alverstoke
-
Date
Coggeshall anger at lack of policing
Coggeshall Parish Council is protesting about what members claim is a lack of policing in the village. In a letter sent to Home Secretary, Jack Straw, county council chief executive, Stewart Ashurst and Essex Chief Constable, David Stevens, the council
-
Date
Speedway is saved!
Arena Essex has been saved - that was the welcome news to emerge from Thursday's press conference at the club to give the speedway team's followers an early Christmas present. A three man consortium has taken over the speedway operation and there will
-
Date
Soccer: City sign new midfielder
Chelmsford City have signed 20-year-old midfielder Keith Newby from Cambridge City and he goes straight into the side for Saturday's potentially difficult Dr Martens League Eastern Division match at Witney Town (kick off 3pm). Grimsby-born and now living
-
Date
Soccer: Blues take on table-toppers
Suprise Third Division leaders Barnet travel to Roots Hall tonight (Friday) with the sole aim of extending their 100 per cent league record at Southend United's ground. The Shrimpers have only met Barnet once on home soil in the league when the visitors
-
Date
Chelmsford: Comfort for fatal cab driver
The brother and sister of a Chelmsford man who died in a road accident as he walked home from his firm's Christmas dinner have sent a message of compassion to the taxi driver involved in the collision. "We really feel for the driver and hope that it does
-
Date
County-wide fears over gas emissions
People in Essex could be affected by noxious gases from waste incinerators outside the county, it has been claimed. As thousands of residents protest at the possibility of burner plants being established at sites around the county, a warning has been
-
Date
County Ford workers set to strike
Thousands of Ford workers in south Essex could strike in the new year following a collapse in talks. Union representatives today said industrial action was likely after workers overwhelmingly rejected an offer on working conditions by Ford bosses. Up
-
Date
County pay deal on the buses
Bus drivers have accepted a pay deal with bosses of Eastern National. Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union voted by two to one to accept a pay deal spread over two years. The threat of disruption to bus services in Essex was averted after
-
Date
Colchester: Residents slam teenage nightclub plan
Angry residents have joined police to condemn plans for a nightclub for teenagers as young as 14. Steve Peri, proprietor of the Hippodrome nightclub on High Street, Colchester, wanted to set up monthly disco nights for children under 18. Representing
-
Date
Colchester: Residents slam teenage nightclub plan
Angry residents have joined police to condemn plans for a nightclub for teenagers as young as 14. Steve Peri, proprietor of the Hippodrome nightclub on High Street, Colchester, wanted to set up monthly disco nights for children under 18. Representing
-
Date
Colchester: Man falls down 6ft trench
A man walking his dog behind his home fell down a 6ft-deep trench. Ray Willis was on his regular evening walk when he fell into the ditch, which had apparently appeared overnight in Friday Woods, Colchester. Many locals use the Army-owned woods just behind
-
Date
Rayleigh: Millennium clock stops
Rayleigh's much-heralded millennium clock, which was designed to see in the new century in style . . . has stopped! The state-of-the-art timepiece in the High Street was launched in a blaze of glory just over three weeks ago as the Christmas lights were
-
Date
Braintree councillors in fraud probe
The leader of Braintree Council confirmed on Friday that two councillors were being investigated for benefit fraud. The two were arrested by Essex Police and it has now been confirmed they are both councillors on Braintree council. Braintree council leader
-
Date
Decathlon: ASICS to foot the bill for Macey
Dean Macey is now reaping the rewards of his 1999 IAAF World Championship decathlon silver medal win in the Estadio Olympico, Seville. At a press conference held earlier this week, Canvey Islander Macey, 22, from Canvey Island, announced he had signed
-
Date
Basketball: Saints record falls
SOUTHEND SAINTS.............50 SCORPIONS.........................58 The final undefeated record in the Essex Men's Basketball League sadly came to an end. Home favourites Southend Saints went down to their local rivals Scorpions in a thrilling encounter
-
Date
Soccer: City sign new midfielder
Chelmsford City have signed 20-year-old midfielder Keith Newby from Cambridge City and he goes straight into the side for Saturday's potentially difficult Dr Martens League Eastern Division match at Witney Town (kick off 3pm). Grimsby-born and now living
-
Date
Maldon: Reward for hero Robert
Maldon hero Robert Wadwell, who rescued three people from a burning building earlier this year, sustaining brain injuries in the attempt, is to receive another award. Last week Robert, 20, of Coleridge Road, was presented with the Order of St John's silver
-
Date
No buses in Chelmsford for the millennium
No First Eastern National buses will run on December 31 or January 1, even though special trains run by First Great Eastern -- an arm of the same firm -- will operate to Shenfield, Chelmsford and Witham for much of the time. The taxi alternative will
-
Date
Coggeshall anger at lack of policing
Coggeshall Parish Council is protesting about what members claim is a lack of policing in the village. In a letter sent to Home Secretary, Jack Straw, county council chief executive, Stewart Ashurst and Essex Chief Constable, David Stevens, the council
-
Date
Driver escapes Rayleigh smash
The driver of this lorry which overturned outside the Traveller's Joy pub in Rayleigh escaped with just minor bruising. The lorry struck another vehicle as it turned over but miraculously the driver was the only person injured in the accident. A spokesman
-
Date
All change for Chelmsford's EEV
After 52 years at the forefront of technology a brilliant new millennium is predicted for Chelmsford's EEV under a brand new name -- Marconi Applied Technologies. The 1,200 staff who work at the new international headquarters of the renamed Marconi division
-
Date
Soccer: Burley plans an FA Cup upset
Ipswich boss George Burley is looking at the FA Cup third round clash against Southampton on Monday night as a benchmark for Premiership soccer. The Town chief is confident his squad can live with the big boys if they get promoted to the top flight at
-
Date
£15m Thurrock drug bust
Police and customs officers have dealt a major blow in the fight against drug dealers in south Essex after seizing heroin with a street value of £15 million. They believe they have made a sizeable hole in plans to flood the area with drugs for the Christmas
-
Date
County Ford workers set to strike
Thousands of Ford workers in south Essex could strike in the new year following a collapse in talks. Union representatives today said industrial action was likely after workers overwhelmingly rejected an offer on working conditions by Ford bosses. Up
-
Date
County pay deal on the buses
Bus drivers have accepted a pay deal with bosses of Eastern National. Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union voted by two to one to accept a pay deal spread over two years. The threat of disruption to bus services in Essex was averted after
-
Date
Chelmsford: Comfort for fatal cab driver
The brother and sister of a Chelmsford man who died in a road accident as he walked home from his firm's Christmas dinner have sent a message of compassion to the taxi driver involved in the collision. "We really feel for the driver and hope that it does
-
Date
Southend: Cool designs get the drugs message across
Pupils from a Southend school were rewarded for their cool designs on a smart anti drugs campaign. The 11 and 12-year-old students from Southend High School for Boys designed posters to get the anti drugs message across in the 2 Smart 4 Drugs campaign
-
Date
Leigh fishermen bid for Euro cash
A bid for European cash to buy security cameras to crack down on vandalism in Leigh was unveiled today. Southend Council and Leigh Town Council are hoping for European funding to help pay for CCTV cameras in Leigh Old Town. Leigh fisherman Paul Gilson
-
Date
Southend: Cool designs get the drugs message across
Pupils from a Southend school were rewarded for their cool designs on a smart anti drugs campaign. The 11 and 12-year-old students from Southend High School for Boys designed posters to get the anti drugs message across in the 2 Smart 4 Drugs campaign
-
Date
Soccer: Blues take on table-toppers
Suprise Third Division leaders Barnet travel to Roots Hall tonight (Friday) with the sole aim of extending their 100 per cent league record at Southend United's ground. The Shrimpers have only met Barnet once on home soil in the league when the visitors
-
Date
Canvey OAPs: 'Home move is killing us'
Residents living in an old people's complex due to be demolished claim the stress is "killing" them. Shocked occupants of Little Gypps Court on Canvey said the worry of finding a new home was making them ill. Many of the residents, in their 80s and 90s
-
Date
All change for Chelmsford's EEV
After 52 years at the forefront of technology a brilliant new millennium is predicted for Chelmsford's EEV under a brand new name -- Marconi Applied Technologies. The 1,200 staff who work at the new international headquarters of the renamed Marconi division
-
Date
Soccer: Fans slam Blues' chief's salary
Southend United chief executive Peter Storrie's mammoth £120,000 a-year salary was the main topic of conversation at a Blues fans' forum. Storrie, who endured calls for his head from the terraces during Southend's last league fixture at Plymouth Argyle
-
Date
Braintree councillors in fraud probe
The leader of Braintree Council confirmed on Friday that two councillors were being investigated for benefit fraud. The two were arrested by Essex Police and it has now been confirmed they are both councillors on Braintree council. Braintree council leader
-
Date
Soccer: Swifts revival keeps rolling
(Ryman League Premier Division) Current Swifts' caretaker managers Liam Cutbush and Tony Adcock have now officially applied for the joint post as a permanent partnership and with the full support of the players, after four wins in four games, including
-
Date
No buses in Chelmsford for the millennium
No First Eastern National buses will run on December 31 or January 1, even though special trains run by First Great Eastern -- an arm of the same firm -- will operate to Shenfield, Chelmsford and Witham for much of the time. The taxi alternative will
-
Date
Prize joy for Braintree farmworker
A farmworker from Braintree who is facing redundancy has been handed a lifeline by winning a £70,000 tractor. Neill Cowie, 35, from Beatty Gardens, is to lose his job at the 216-acre Mill Farms at Stisted where he has worked for a number of years. The
-
Date
Leigh fishermen bid for Euro cash
A bid for European cash to buy security cameras to crack down on vandalism in Leigh was unveiled today. Southend Council and Leigh Town Council are hoping for European funding to help pay for CCTV cameras in Leigh Old Town. Leigh fisherman Paul Gilson
-
Date
Harold: Police hunt for sex pest
Police fearing the re-emergence of a paedophile presence in the Harold area are pleading for information from witnesses who saw a man offer two 10-year-old boys money in return for sex acts in an alleyway. The two boys were playing in the alley in Alverstoke
-
Date
Harold: Police hunt for sex pest
Police fearing the re-emergence of a paedophile presence in the Harold area are pleading for information from witnesses who saw a man offer two 10-year-old boys money in return for sex acts in an alleyway. The two boys were playing in the alley in Alverstoke
-
Date
Soccer: U's boss bids to bring back Dunne
Colchester United boss Steve Whitton is hoping to boost the club's survival bid by bringing fans' favourite Joe Dunne back to the club. One of nine players controversially thrown out on a free transfer by former U's manager Mick Wadsworth in the summer
-
Date
Westcliff man chains himself to Treasury
A disgruntled bank customer chained himself to the entrance of the Treasury in London to protest against bank charges. Victor Tassell, 59, of Whitefriars Crescent, Westcliff, said he and four other men would stay at the building in Whitehall until a Government
-
Date
Colchester: Man falls down 6ft trench
A man walking his dog behind his home fell down a 6ft-deep trench. Ray Willis was on his regular evening walk when he fell into the ditch, which had apparently appeared overnight in Friday Woods, Colchester. Many locals use the Army-owned woods just behind
