Archive
-
Date
Basildon: Laughter at Crown Court
HAPPY smiling faces, laughter and fascination. Not the sort of reactions you would normally get inside Basildon Crown Court, but Saturday saw a very special day. The simple idea of opening up the combined court in the Gore was to help demystify the work
-
Date
Basildon: Car crash victim named
SUFFOLK Police have named the teenager who is fighting for his life in a Cambridge hospital after the car he was travelling in was involved in a head-on crash with a horse-caravan. Tony Slattery, 17, from Basildon, was a passenger in a red Ford Granada
-
Date
Soccer: Braintree Town 2-3 Enfield (Ryman League Premier Division)
Braintree threw away a two-goal lead at the weekend though remain 6th in the Ryman League Premier standings, despite three successive defeats. Visiting Enfield had been suffering something of a relegation haunted season up until the last couple of months
-
Date
Soccer: Colchester United 3 Queens Park Rangers 1 (Division Two)
COLCHESTER United's Second Division status is almost certain for another season following their three-goal demolition job on promotion-chasing QPR at Layer Road. Two goals from Kevin Rapley either side of half-time and one from leading scorer Scott McGleish
-
Date
Soccer: Grays Athletic 1-3 Purfleet (Ryman League Premier Division)
Purfleet took the plaudits in the battle of Essex on Saturday, condemning Grays Athletic to a rare home defeat. Athletic took the upper hand early on, showing all the style and aggression that has helped them achieve their lofty 3rd place in the table
-
Date
Soccer: Ilkeston Town 3-3 Chelmsford City (Dr Martens League Premier Division)
Chelmsford battled for an honest point at Ilkeston Town on Saturday in an entertaining 3-3 draw. The home side lost influential defender Matt McKenzie after only five minutes, though that loss didn't seem to deter the Robins who soon after notched their
-
Date
Soccer: Harlow Town 2-1 Yeading (Ryman League Division One)
Harlow Town put on a spirited late fightback to take all three points against Yeading on Saturday. After recent dropped points, Town knew that nothing less than the full quota on Saturday would be enough if they were to stay in the promotion hunt. And
-
Date
Soccer: Billericay Town 1-2 Heybridge Swifts (Ryman League Premier Division)
Dominic Gentle's injury time penalty saw Heybridge snatch all three points from Saturday's visit to Essex rivals Billericay. A sizeable New Lodge crowd of 685 saw both sides struggle to gain the advantage over the first half-hour with resolute defending
-
Date
Soccer: Uxbridge 1-3 Bishop's Stortford (Ryman League Division One)
Bishop's Stortford went top of the Ryman League Division One after a hard-fought success at mid-table Uxbridge on Saturday. Stortford look odds-on for a place in the Ryman Premier next season, although only two points separates them from 3rd-placed Ford
-
Date
Soccer: Maidenhead United 0-1 Canvey Island (Ryman League Premier Division)
Canvey stayed top of the Ryman Premier Division thanks to Lee Boylan's solitary goal at Maidenhead United. The Seagulls won't mind the fact that this was, predominantly, a dour affair with very little to separate two sides struggling to find form after
-
Date
Soccer: Ryman League Round-Up (Divisions 2 and 3)
Tilbury put a dent in Great Wakering's Ryman Division Two title ambitions on Saturday, holding Rovers to a 1-1 draw in the all-Essex derby. It was a worthy point for mid-table Tilbury, who went close early on through Steve Jones. Gary Ewers then threatened
-
Date
Laindon: Murder inquiry launched
DETECTIVES investigating the death of a 57-year-old woman whose body was found in her Laindon flat have launched a murder inquiry after a post mortem revealed she died from a severe head injury. The body of 57-year-old Anita Gordon, of Rowenhall, Laindon
-
Date
Essex: Police called in over dead woman's body found in Kent cement works
DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of 15-year-old Danielle Jones have been called in after the discovery of a woman's body at a cement works in Kent. The body was found at 9am on Friday by workmen at the Blue Circle cement works in Springhead
