Upcoming closures from April 4 to 6 on the M25, Dartford Crossing and A12 may affect some drivers across Essex this weekend.

Kiritto Sebamalaimuthu applied in January to turn the former tyre and exhaust garage in Colchester Road into a convenience store. The store would have been part of the Budgens chain, which belongs to ...

A KEEN birdwatcher has spotted a rare bird in Essex, marking the beginning of its spring migration. Photographer Mike O’Hanlon captured an image of a male ring ouzel at Holland Haven Country Park on ...

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has removed impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol from office. Friday’s decision came four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial ...

The case of a woman accused of breaching a so-called buffer zone outside an abortion clinic in England has attracted ...

Democratic officials in 19 states have filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, called the president’s move an unconstitutional ...

The US Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement that the talks, held on Wednesday and Thursday in the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai, were focused on “decreasing the incidences of unsafe and ...

Teenage girls in England are significantly less likely to feel safe in school than their male peers since the Covid-19 pandemic, a study has suggested. Secondary school pupils in England have some of ...

Measures introduced last year with the aim of boosting access to NHS dentists appear to have “resulted in worsening the picture”, MPs have said. The Dental Recovery Plan has “comprehensively failed”, ...

NHS hospitals and buildings are plagued by rats, cockroaches, silverfish and other pests, according to a large staff survey. A poll of almost 9,000 health workers for the Unison union suggests pests ...

The UK has drawn up an ‘indicative list’ of possible retaliatory tariffs, but is unlikely to hit back this month.