MESSAGES of support have flooded in for legendary Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. On Wednesday the Echo revealed that Wilko, 65, had been told by medics in the new year that he had untreatable pancreatic
ROCKS came from behind to pick up a fine win at Ram Meadow. That made it back-to-back league wins for John Coventry's side and moved them up to 11th in the Ryman Premier table. After a goalless first-half, John Sands fired the hosts into the
JAY Nash’s hat-trick saw Great Wakering win a thrilling top-of-the-table match against Enfield. Rovers started positively and after five minutes took the lead when keeper Bert Greenwood spilled a Danny Heale cross straight to Nash, who had the
JAY May scored all of Billericay's four goals as they returned to winning ways at bottom-of-the-table Truro City. Town's win was made all the more impressive by the fact they played for more than an hour of the game with 10 men after the sending
A man was attacked by a machete-wielding maniac as he sat in his car in Hadleigh. The 37-year-old victim was waiting at the traffic lights in Scrub Lane at about 8.15pm last night when the man knocked on his window. When he wound the window
Canvey Island manager Steve Tilson's post-match interview can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Lp-7DAYzE BRADLEY Woods-Garness scored a brace to fire the Gulls into the play-off places with a hard-fought win over visiting
SOUTHEND United sunk to their third successive league defeat this afternoon, losing 3-0 at play off rivals Exeter City. Blues, who lost influential midfielder Marc Laird through injury after 29 minutes, thought they had taken the lead when Barry
A BASILDON man has appeared in court after being charged with ten counts of supplying class A drugs as well as other offences. Jon Morton, 41, from Southwark Path, Basildon appeared in Chelmsford Magistrates Court today for allegedly supplying
MESS caused by builders is leaving the residents of one Wickford street stuck in the mud. Thick ‘treacle-like’ clay water and mud blocking up drains are just some of the problems facing the residents of Waverley Crescent, which is next to the building
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a home in Basildon after a fire broke out in the bathroom. The fire happened at a property in Ayletts at around 11:30am today and is believed to have been triggered by a gas boiler. Two crews from Basildon Fire Station
A PROJECT has been launched to turn a historic railway trackbed into a heritage walk. For over 50 years, the Corringham Light Railway carried workers from Corringham town to the Coryton industrial site. But the now defunct three
THREE men have been arrested in connection with a burglary in Wescliff. Thieves stole thousands of pounds worth of goods, including high-value clothing and a custom made one-off bike, during a break-in at The Buttery Store, on Park Road in November
A HEARTBROKEN mum has seen a cruel disease rob her of a son, just a year after she lost her daughter to it. Marina Philpott lived through the nightmare of burying 13-year-old daughter Bridie, in January last year, and now she must lay Bridie
MORE than 140 staff will move out of Hockley next week following the closure of Bullwood Hall prison. The Ministry of Justice announced yesterday (thurs) the prison would be one of six closures in England. The staff will be offered
MORE than 140 staff will lose their jobs following the closure of Bullwood Hall prison. The Ministry of Justice has announced the prison would be one of six closures in England. The staff will be offered the choice of redundancy, relocation
