Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is on track to make annual savings of £700k and 3.5k tonnes of CO2 through a range of pioneering energy and sustainability projects that aim to establish Southend as a Low Carbon City by 2020.
We can’t say that we weren’t warned and it finally happened this week. Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, announced that interest rates were to rise from 0.25% to 0.5%
I’ve long been a fan of the Grove. This quaint little restaurant perched at the top of Belton Way East has surely one of the best vantage points in Leigh. With its truly enviable location, grab a seat in their garden and you’ll be spoilt with a beautiful vista across, what I like to describe as, the Thames Riviera.
As I sat in my office in Leigh Broadway this week, I looked up to see a beautiful funeral pass by; the funeral director was walking ahead of the procession, and the hearse was beautifully valeted and full of flowers.
I was in the Broadway on Saturday and I came out of the Co-op with my Halloween balloons and my oat milk and saw that people were kind of milling around, holding shopping bags, staring at the road. Two people were having a spectacular argument in their cars, over a parking space. I mean, they were seriously effing and jeffing...
A massive congratulations to local talent Matt Linnen in his cover on last night's X factor of Alessia Cara's Scar To Your Beautiful.
Wait Until Dark, made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn in 1967, is often ranked as one of the top 100 scariest films of all time and this exciting new production reclaims it for the stage.
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London's Book Club are hosting a 90s Hocus Pocus themed party, with appearances from Art Macabre, a screening of the film, as well as face painting, 'Witches Brew' and classic 90s tunes.
The good people behind Hoppily have one sole purpose in life, to educate the masses about beer! Praise the Lord!
From October 29th, Southend Airport will be providing a new service allowing you to connect to 11 north American destinations.
On 27 December 1930 Norton Greenop passed away suddenly at his home in Leigh Road, after years of heart problems. He was 61 and had been a businessman in Leigh for 14 years.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council introduces Pepper, a state of the art child-size robot designed to help transform the way it delivers social care services to its local community.
Q: I employed a landscape gardener to do some work for me. He quoted £3,000 for the job and asked for £750 up front for materials and has not now returned to the job and is ignoring all contact. What can I do?
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