The Right Reverend Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani addressed the county, drawing parallels between current times and the first Easter.

A COLCHESTER couple say a slimming club has changed their “lives for the better” after losing a combined seven stone. Mum of two Rosanna Matthews, 38, joined Slimming World in August 2023 as she was ...

Some locations in north and mid Essex trouble people in terms of pronunciation and here are some of the most commonly mistaken.

A Colchester care home was awarded for its good professional standards of end of life care. Welshwood Manor, in Welshwood Park Road, Parsons Heath, completed a range of training, shadowing and ...

Courts across Essex deal with hundreds of cases every week. Since the start of April dozens of people will have been sentenced for crimes. Here are five men who have been jailed for offences ranging ...

US vice president JD Vance has met the Vatican’s number two official after a papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s ...

Francis and Mr Vance have tangled over migration and the Trump administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis ...

Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among the four people who died in the crash on Thursday at Monte Faito.

In January 2023, Mr Putin had ordered his forces in Ukraine to observe a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire for Orthodox Christmas. Mr Zelensky had stopped short of stating his forces would reject Putin’s ...

Michael Steinwender, Cammy Devlin and assistant boss Mike Garrity were all sent off during the 2-1 extra-time defeat to Aberdeen at Hampden Park.

COLCHESTER United under-21s lost 3-1 at Norwich City in a friendly clash, writes BRIAN WALLER. Without a league fixture for 11 days, the U's youngster travelled to Norfolk to play the Canaries in the ...