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Mar 24, 2025 · Death notices, family announcements, obituaries, acknowledgements and in memoriam in and around Basildon from Echo.

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Jan 9, 2025 · The rise is an improvement on last year’s 7.99 per cent and comes as the council confirms its required savings target for 2025/26 of £18.2million has been achieved.

Jan 21, 2025 · A 21-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, driving without a licence and driving while unfit through drink or drugs, and has been released under investigation.

Jan 3, 2025 · Wilko closed in October 2023 in a huge blow for the shopping centre after 28 years trading from the High Street. New home - Wilko is being turned into a new B&M (Image: Newsquest). It comes days ...

Plans for the 2025/26 draft budget, which were released by Southend Council yesterday, propose a council tax rise by the maximum allowed – 4.99 per cent.

Feb 10, 2025 · The Anglo restaurant will open within weeks at the former Oyster Wharf in Eastwood Road, Rayleigh, following its closure in August last year. Married couple Joanne and Mark Potton are behind the ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The warning, which stretches across much of the south of England lasts from 6am this morning (January 23) until 6am tomorrow morning. The European Storm Forecast Experiment, which issued the alert ...