A mother speaks of her struggle living in one room with a baby in a social housing block.

   One user says she incurred hundreds of pounds in fines but was not told her account had been shut.

   Sue Daish says it is a wonderful honour to take on the civic role in her home town.

   Border Force officers stopped Dutch national Rolf Warnars at an international port.

   The government says it will fund the scheme estimated to cost m when priced up in .

   The study finds that trauma changes how a young brain develops and affects areas such as empathy.

   Breeding project at Colchester Zoo hopes to boost numbers of the rare Fisher’s Estuarine moth.

   Nana Oppong and Israar Shah are accused of murdering Robert Powell in June .

   The fox cubs were resting underground when a farmer dug up their den.

   One academic says the local results in May will be a good guide ahead of the general election.

   Admin errors are blamed for the Tory candidates no longer being eligible for the May election.

   Candidates from four corners pledge to improve policing in Essex ahead of the elections on May.

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   Voters in parts of England will elect councillors, mayors and police commissioners in May.

   Doncaster win at lowly Colchester to record a th successive victory and move into the League Two play off places.

   Captain Tom Westley says that if Essex play their best cricket, there isn’t another team that can compete with us .

   Southend manager Kevin Maher was proud despite his side missing out on National League play offs on the final day of the season.

   Shaun Murphy moves into the last of the World Championship with an impressive performance to beat China’s Lyu Haotian .

   Aveley boss Danny Scopes is happy for his side to be regarded as underdogs as they look to win promotion to the National League.

   An Essex charity says it seeing people as young as addicted to gambling.

   A family of orphaned fox cubs were rescued after their earth was dug up by mistake.

   How a meeting in Saffron Walden led to the birth of English democracy.

   Adam was infected with hepatitis C in the s through treatment for severe haemophilia.