A RESTAURANT serving Asian food could move into the building where Hooters wants to open. If granted permission by Southend councillors, Charlie Choy’s would be on the first floor of the former site of the MVC music store building in London
TEENAGERS have praised a scheme to provide free bus tickets to youngsters from poor backgrounds in Southend. The Southend Youth Council is ploughing a grant from the Government-backed Fix It fund, to ensure teenagers who rely on public transport can
A YOUNGSTER who found a poignant snap of a soldier and his mother is hoping to reunite it with its owner. The picture of the soldier and a woman believed to be his mother, was found by five-year-old Brendan Purll in Carlton Avenue, Westcliff
BASILDON MP Angela Smith has named a new Port of London Authority survey boat. The Labour MP officially launched the £315,000 Galloper, at the authority’s headquarters in Gravesend, Kent. The 7.9-metre catamaran – named after a sandbank in the Thames
ESSEX'S dream of lifting the Twenty20 Cup was shot down by the Kent Spitfires at the Rose Bowl. Chasing 174 to win, the Eagles made a bright start with Ravi Bopara and skipper Mark Pettini adding 78 for the first wicket. However, the departure of
A WEEKEND of fundraising for Little Havens children’s hospice has been organised by a Benfleet pub. The team at the Half Crown pub, in High Street, are organising a weekend of events from Friday, August 1, to Sunday, August 3, to raise cash for the Thundersley
PEOPLE with minor health problems are increasingly burdening emergency services, new figures have revealed. The number of non-emergency calls for an ambulance has rocketed in the past five years, according to figures released by the East of
ESSEX will chase 174 to reach the Twenty20 Cup Final at the Rose Bowl. Opponents Kent Spitfires made a flying start to their innings in Southampton, reaching 58 off just 34 legitimate balls before Danish Kaneria bowled captain Rob Key for 20. At
MORE than 50 residents, who were evacuated from a new four-storey block of flats after a major blaze yesterday morning, have returned to their homes. But more than ten people are believed to have been made homeless by the fire which firefighters
ALL-rounder Tim Phillips was a shock inclusion in Essex's line-up as the Eagles went for Twenty20 Cup glory at the Rose Bowl. The slow left-armer has made just one first team appearance this season after undergoing knee surgery in early May. The
WEST Ham United have gone all European in a concerted attempt to end the club's crippling injury problems. With first-team players suffering more than 50 injuries last term, rendering frustrated manager Alan Curbishley unable to field a first-choice
NORTH America's Major League Soccer (MLS) may be considered to be something of a joke by many Premier League supporters. However, that joke was wearing rather thin by the end of West Ham United's 3-2 defeat to a Cuauthemoc Blanco-inspired MLS All-Stars
POLICE removed a man from a house after an armed siege in which a road was closed off. Officers laid siege to the large detached house in Westcliff Drive, Leigh, in an operation involving firearms officers and police dogs. The siege,
AN international organisation fighting slavery has backed calls for a police investigation into the use of vulnerable workers on travellers’ sites. In April, the Echo revealed how some travellers on local sites were rounding up homeless people
RESIDENTS and campaigners have claimed the consultation for Southend Airport’s expansion plans are unfair and secretive. An action plan for the airport looks at four options of growth, varying from doing nothing to either extending the business
THIS message is aimed primarily at a certain anonymous dumper of unwanted building rubble, in the desperate hope he can read and still has a conscience. Or at the very least, some shame. I appeal to you, please, to end your nocturnal visits
BASILDON Council’s battle to evict travellers from illegal sites goes back to court in December. The council has been given a Court of Appeal date of December 5 to challenge the High Court ruling in May which quashed its earlier decision to
STUDENTS have raised money to buy DVDs and games for young cancer patients at Southend Hospital. Teenagers at Eden Training centre, in Westcliff, raised more than £700 after one of their sisters was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and treated
YOU can grab that dusty Buddha off your mantel piece or table and take it to Hadleigh Country Park on Sunday to be re-energised. The Esoteric School is holding a one-day family event, between 1pm and 5pm, to launch a weekly meditation class at the
