Those living on the Lower Thames Crossing route tell of their despair at being uprooted.

The Essex MP leads a debate on the introduction of a programme of British Sign Language classes.

It will run for a month with National Grid urging people to give feedback.

Three vehicles were at the scene and a fourth had already left, police say.

The bird, found in Bury St Edmunds, became unwell after eating an animal with poison in its system.

Staff at an Essex animal hospital are dealing with an increasing number of abandoned seal pups.

Rocky is released at Walton-on-the-Naze after being flown from Jersey earlier this year.

A seal pup flown by private jet to a wildlife hospital is now eating fish whole as he piles on the weight.