Chancellor tells Sky News social media companies have a moral duty to take down violent and harmful content as she says lessons need to be learned.

The Chancellor indicated the Government would consider the prospect of signing up to the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM).

FIREFIGHTERS have been called out to Benfleet to pump water out of a flooded basement. Crews attended Rayleigh Road at about 6.30am on Sunday and remain on the scene. Group manager for Essex County ...

FRAUDSTERS who illegally use disability Blue Badges to park have been labelled “disgusting” and warned they will be caught and hauled in ...

Options to increase capacity to 87,000 at the existing stadium or build a new ground which could hold 100,000 fans are on the table.

Havens hospices, St Luke's Hospice, and Farleigh Hospice have been recognised for their work in helping people nearing the end of their lives ...

A SCHOOL with more than 1,500 pupils is celebrating maintaining its “good” Ofsted rating after being inspected for the first time since five years. The Appleton School, in Croft Road, Benfleet, ...

More than 100,000 remain without power in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn. Additional engineers have been brought to the region from Great Britain to help NIE Networks with the task ...

EMERGENCY services are on the scene of an incident in Benfleet. Essex Fire Service has said five crews from Southend, Rayleigh Weir, Leigh, Witham and Harlow are "working to resolve an incident" on ...

President Alexander Lukashenko’s opponents are imprisoned or exiled abroad by his unrelenting crackdown on dissent and free speech.

On tonight’s episode (January 25) of The Masked Singer, Teeth, Snail and Bear were among those hoping to impress the judges and studio audience. In the end, it was Bear and Teeth who faced the bottom ...

Israeli authorities said the move was on hold until Hamas freed a hostage who they said was supposed to have been released.