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A134 crash near Stoke-by-Nayland closes the northbound road on the Essex-Suffolk border, causing delays and queues. Motorists urged to allow extra time.

Rare £1m three-bedroom detached home for sale on Brentwood’s Homesteads Private Estate, Essex, with gardens overlooking the green and parking for four cars.

A surveyor stole more than £500 from two pensioners after going to their home for a routine inspection, leaving them feeling their lives had been turned “upside down”.

Residents at Hatfield Peverel Bupa Care Home in Chelmsford got up close to birds of prey.

Bradley Owen Jones, formerly known as Bradley Hicks, 24, was serving a community order at the time of the offence.

The chief executive of a local homelessness charity says rebuilding homeless people’s confidence must be a priority.

Residents at Seven Rivers, in Great Bromley, will be relocated before it shuts

Pam Cox, Labour MP for Colchester, and Marie Goldman, Lib Dem MP for Chelmsford, hosted an event in Chelmsford alongside a domestic abuse charity

Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-nominated novel John Of John is among the books shortlisted for Waterstones Book Of The Year 2026.

John Healey has denied postponing difficult decisions on the welfare system, insisting the Government is making changes “now”.

A new report has highlighted “substantial geographical variation” in prescribing of drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro on the NHS in Scotland.

Manchester United head coach Michael Carrick and captain Bruno Fernandes have held clear-the-air talks.

Colchester United defender Samuel Kuffour Jnr says he will keep pushing for more first-team opportunities

Colchester United legends rolled back the years as former U’s favourites reunited for the first Former Players Association coffee get-together

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Supercomputer predicts where Colchester United will finish in League Two