Royal Mail is scrapping Saturday deliveries of second-class post as part of a wider overhaul and a £500 million investment plan to meet ...

The digital service, involving Lloyds, Connells Group and conveyancing provider LMS, aims to reduce delays and uncertainty when buying a home.

A couple swapped Leigh-on-Sea in Essex for Mediterranean sunshine and say they're not looking back anytime soon.

An inquest into the 33-year-old’s death has been opened and adjourned until a substantive hearing on September 14 this year.

The former The Only Way is Essex TV star, who was from Basildon, was on holiday in Thailand when he died, an inquest heard.

The petition calls for the Government to “reduce the national speed limit on single carriageways usually found in rural areas from 60mph ...

The 57-year-old Baroness departs with the Hammers two points and one place above the Premier League relegation zone.

Former Foreign Office official Sir Olly Robbins set out the pressure from No 10 to get Lord Mandelson into the Washington ambassador’s post.

Iranian state TV has been controlled by hard-liners within Iran’s theocracy. So far, no official has acknowledged that a delegation will be heading to Islamabad, where officials have been on standby ...

A former Methodist church in an Essex village is going up for auction. Around four miles from Colchester, the church is in the centre of Ardleigh. Covering approximately 2,000 sq ft on a single floor, ...

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with arson after an attack on a synagogue in north-west London. The teenager, a British national from Brent, north-west London, who has not been named because of his ...

An inquest opened into the death of teenager Jamie-Lea Biscoe, who was attacked by her pet dog Shy at their Dunmow family home on April 10.