SOUTH Essex’s youngsters dominated a mud-bath of an Essex Cross-Country Championships over a typically brutal course at Hadleigh Country Park. There were gold medals for Gus Withers, Jodie Judd, George Elliott and Gemma Holloway while in the senior
ESSEX Leopards will look to reach the National Trophy semi-final for the fourth time in five years when they host Derby Trailblazers at the Brentwood Centre on Sunday afternoon. The Trophy, which is the league cup for English Basketball’s Division
Angry residents and councillors fear a ‘hypocritical’ council could set a precedent after allowing homes to be build on a previously protected piece of green belt land. On Tuesday night, Castle Point Council’s development control committee carried
THE grieving families of two young men killed in two separate crashes in southeast Asia, are urging travellers to take care journeying to the continent. Both Sam Fournaise, 22 from Billericay and Ryan Marven, 30 from Stanford-le-Hope died tragically
WE’RE in the middle of playing three games in the space of seven days and a fixture pile up does remain my biggest worry at this stage of the season. We now have a two games against Leyton Orient to fit in as well as a rearranged league game against
SOUTHEND United midfielder Marc Laird is hoping to give Exeter City the needle at St James’ Park this weekend. The Scotsman, who is expected to replace Anthony Straker in the side, has been given stitches to a mouth wound in his last two matches
A BELOVED Canvey pub will be going up for sale after the landlords have decided to call it a day. Potential landlords will be able to take over the management of the Haystack Pub, in Furtherwick Road, Canvey after current landlords Steve Lant and
A TEENAGE boy saved his girlfriend’s life after spotting the symptoms of potentially fatal meningitis. Rachel Lucy, who turned 18 on Christmas Eve, thought she had flu when she began to feel ill while at her part-time job in Boots in Southend
BARRY Corr wants to finish his fantastic goal-scoring week in style by again hitting the back of the net when Southend United visit his former Exeter City side tomorrow. The tall targetman bagged braces against both Brentford and Oxford United
A GANG of women thieves has been targeting shops...distracting the staff before stealing goods. The Eastern European trio have struck at stores in Rochford but it is feared they could soon move on to nearby towns. Businesses are hoping to alert
KEVAN Hurst has labelled tomorrow’s clash with promotion rivals Exeter City as a crucial game for Southend United. The fifth placed Grecians are currently one point and one place above Paul Sturrock’s side in the League Two standings. And Hurst
ELLIOT Benyon hopes his winning penalty at Oxford United can signal the start of a change of fortune for him at Southend United. The 25-year-old forward has endured a frustrating season at Roots Hall, making just three starts. But he came off
BOTTOM of the table Rochford Hundred will be hoping history can repeat itself when they travel to Ruislip tomorrow. Hundred have triumphed in just one of their 15 games so far this season. But that triumph came against Ruislip, who they beat
COUNCIL officers will into the number of unnecessary street signs in Southend after one resident complained he could see 17 from his front door. Simon Isaac, 45, is frustrated by the forest of bollards and parking signs blighting Park Road and
WESTCLIFF head to Hertford in National Three London & SE tomorrow looking to avoid a 10th straight defeat. A run of poor results has seen the side slump to second from bottom in the table. And they will therefore be hoping to boost their
SOUTHEND’S director of rugby Chris Green could return to action for the first time in two years when he takes his team to Lydney tomorrow for a hugely important National Two South encounter. The Seasiders are currently second from bottom in the
INVESTIGATIONS into an alleged rape in Southend town centre have ceased after no offence was found to have been committed. A woman, in her late teens to early 20s was found in a distressed state near the main bus station behind the Royals shopping
A ‘temporary’ boss who has cost taxpayers £779 a day at a cash-strapped council has been in his stand-in job for two and a half years, the Echo can reveal. Southend Council claims it recruits temporary staff as a stop-gap for vacancies or during
FIRE crews tackled a blaze in a first floor flat in Leigh this morning. Leigh Road was closed in both directions at the junction with Chalkwell Schools and London Road to the junction with Kings Road after the fire started just after 7am. Firefighters
A MAN has been spared jail despite being caught carrying a 10-inch knife in Basildon town centre. It is also the third time since 2007 that Ryan Kelly, 22, had been convicted of possessing a weapon in public. But despite the Government
A HOSPITAL extension should be banned until parking problems in surrounding streets can be resolved, campaigners have claimed. People living around Southend Hospital say any expansion should not go ahead while council bosses are working to stop
THE Echo and four of its reporters have been nominated for a string of top journalism awards. The paper been shortlisted for Daily Newspaper of the Year in the EDF East of England 2012 Media Awards. Echo reporters have taken three of the four
