A number of companies throughout South Essex have been named and shamed for failing to pay employees the minimum wage according to data released by the goverment's business department.
Up to £40 million will be invested into Southend Airport between 2018 and 2021.
A fly-tipper has been ordered to pay over £800 after being prosecuted by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council enforcement officers.
Following on from the so called ‘Beast from the East’, roads up and down the country have been heavily impacted by the adverse weather conditions, with Southend-on-Sea being no different.
Back to reality. The great thaw has happened. Our timelines are no longer a scrolling live-feed of snowmen, Waitrose shopping bags being pulled home on sledges (I see you), and frosty estuary scenes.
For those who followed local singing sensation Matt Linnen's journey on the X Factor last year and are keen to catch him on home ground, well, you need to look no further!
Bizarre really, I wait all winter hoping it is going to snow and look forward to the picture postcard landscaped under a blanket of white and then as soon as it is here, I am fed up and cant wait for it to go.
Major work to replace steps at Belton Hill in Leigh-on-Sea is planned to start in April.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has taken the difficult decision to suspend kerbside recycling and waste collections for the remainder of the week.
More than nine out of ten Southend-on-Sea children will start secondary school in September 2018 at their first choice school.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has secured £71,195 of funding to undertake a study to help the port at Leigh-on-Sea remain accessible by all maritime uses, including the fishing and cockling industries.
A local resident has been found guilty of housing benefit fraud and fined over £2,000.
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