Well, I have to admit, I am still tingling after last night’s performance of the Sunset Boulevard at Southend Cliffs Pavilion. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award®-winning show is darkly intense and completely mesmerising, thanks to its incredible cast and staging.
A well-established quiz night in London, Manchester and Brighton, and they came to little old Southend on Sea last weekend.
Statistics published yesterday by the Department for Education (DfE) confirmed Southend-on-Sea as an overall area performed well above the national* average under the Government’s new GCSE measures, coming 16th out of 151 local authority areas for the new Attainment 8 measure, and 13th for students achieving Grade 5 or above in English and maths combined (54.1% compared to 42.6% nationally).
A Portuguese restaurant in Southend has landed a bill of more than £6,000 after consistently failing to repair a noisy extractor fan.
Something very rare is happening in Leigh on Sea that we haven’t seen for a good few years. There are actually quite a lot of properties for sale currently on the market.
Join us on the last Friday of the month to experience the gallery after-hours with a mix of art, music, film and workshops
This week's Leigh-on-Sea sound is from Big Yellow Suitcase.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is looking for residents and visitors, including young people, to take part in an online consultation for a possible new sports facility in the town centre for wheeled sports enthusiasts.
A detailed report on school admission arrangements for community schools from September 2019 onwards will be considered by the council’s cabinet next week (Monday 29 January).
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is urging small businesses in Southend to be vigilant, after a conman claiming to be from the Council’s licensing team conned a business owner out of £430.
Mindgame is a sharp thriller, full of wit and homage to the genre, but be warned, not all is as it seems within the grounds of Fairfield Hospital.
Join Gregg for an evening of anecdotes, culinary expertise & behind the scenes tales.
We've had many people ask us recently about the benefits between Swedish massage and Hot Stone so I’m finally putting the two side by side!
With the ‘new year, new me’ resolutions in full swing, the Council, working with Fusion Lifestyle, is opening its doors for a host of activities at local leisure centres across the town to help promote an active and healthy lifestyle.
Do you remember when Fives was where the Co-op's chilled and frozen section is now?
Among the Strictly touring live shows, it is almost a tradition that Brendan Cole performances sell tickets by the bucket load!
All of Springfield’s greatest hits woven into a new musical play, Son of a Preacher Man, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel-Horwood.
Our first 'leigh-on-sea find' for 2018 comes in the form of this elegant 'wolf and Moon' Jewellery available at Castle Collection (Castle Lawson Design)
Last Sunday, the weather felt specifically January-ish: crisp, chilly, hat-gloves-and-scarf weather, but with an electric blue sky, and cold white sun.
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