Speedy Hire has cautioned over “challenging” conditions due to Government spending delays, after shutting eight depots in the face of heightened cost pressures. Shares in the equipment hire firm ...

The cancer charity Planets is leading the campaign for the treatment, known as selective internal radiation therapy, to be made available on the NHS.

PUPILS from a Basildon school have been boosted by a six-week programme designed to improve their mental health.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has also been given a wild card after returning to the sport following the birth of her son. Seven British men have been given wild cards into the main draw, ...

A police investigation has been launched after a child was hit by a bike and injured in Fairfield Gardens, Eastwood.

Manchester United academy chief Nick Cox is set to become technical director at Everton, the PA news agency understands. The Toffees are in the midst of a restructure under the Friedkin Group ...

The Owen Burrows-trained Falakeyah was supplemented for the mile Group One following an effortless Listed win in Newmarket’s Pretty Polly Stakes, with connections opting by bypass a possible French ...

A school where more than 30% of students qualify for free school meals and more than half speak English as an additional language is in the running for a global education prize. Rivers Academy West ...

The annual rate of house price growth fell to 3.5 in April, from 7.0 in March, the Office for National Statistics said.

Annabel Rook, 46, was found fatally injured at a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north-east London on Tuesday morning.

TRAVELLERS who set up a pitch beside a busy Basildon roundabout have moved on after an eviction process began. Basildon Council confirmed it was working with other agencies to evict the travellers ...