Leigh on Sea News - news

Keep Our Community Centre Open Demonstration in Leigh-on-sea

This week demonstrators gathered outside Leigh-on-sea Community Centre to peacefully protest against staff suspensions and the running of the Centre amid rumours of its potential closure.

Read More

Flexible working laws are changing from 6 April for British businesses. Here’s how to prepare.

Does your business employ people? If the answer is ‘yes’, you will need to change how you manage flexible working requests from your employees

Read More

Belton Way wall collapse after heavy rainfall

Southend Council have closed part of Belton Hills, off Marine Parade, Leigh-on-sea as engineers investigate the stability of the northern end of the cliffs after heavy rainfall.

Read More

Residents of Leigh-on-sea can win a prize if they successfully reduce their waste and recycle more!

Each week, crews in Southend collect around 645 tonnes of rubbish in black sacks. That’s the equivalent of 46 double-decker buses. But did you know that on average, 58% of the content of those black bags could have been recycled in the pink recycling sacks, blue paper and card box or even the food waste bin?

Read More

Rishi Sunak Visits Old-Leigh

The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak made a whistle stop tour of the Old town of Leigh-on-sea on Monday morning accompanied by Anna Firth local Southend MP to meet local businesses, fisherman and local residents with a visit also to the Osborne's Fisheries Processing Factory.

Read More

Debut Southend performance for internationally acclaimed university choir

An internationally acclaimed university choir from King’s College, London will perform at the Southchurch Plaza Centre on Friday 19 January 2024.

Read More

Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip puts Leigh-on-sea on the map

Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip visited Britain's Oldest Port Leigh-on-sea in their latest episode

Read More

Leigh-on-sea Businesses encouraged to enter The Best Festival Business Competition

Let your business take part in the Southend Best Festive Business Competition 2023.

Read More

Old Ship Pub In Leigh-on-sea to Open as Hotel

The former Ship Public House in New Road, Leigh-on-sea is to be converted into a 15 bedroomed boutique hotel with an expected opening date of summer 2024.

Read More

Possible New Shipwreck off Southend Pier found by local diver

Steve Ellis a popular local diver has stumbled across a possible unknown wreck whilst diving off Southend Pier

Read More

Leigh Businesses supporting The Gold Geese charity this September

Leigh-on-sea local shops and businesses are supporting The Gold Geese Charity this September to promote the awareness of childhood cancer

Read More

Catchment to Coast working in Leigh-on-sea

With the help of the community, the Environment Agency plan to implement measures over the next 3 years such as leaky dams at Belfairs Woods, water storage and re-use facilities in local allotments and extend the saltmarsh on Two Tree Island

Read More

Leigh-on-sea's Lollie The Elephant badly damaged

Lollie The Elephant standing in Leigh-on-sea Library Gardens has been deliberately vandalised so can no longer stay on the Herd In The City Trail.

Read More

Women and Girls to have say in Online Safety Map

A new online map that women and girls in Essex will be able to use to highlight areas they feel safe or unsafe has been launched in Essex.

Read More

Single Use Plastic Ban from 1st October 2023

From 1 October businesses must no longer supply, sell or offer certain single-use plastic items in England.

Read More

Music Playing Big Belly Bins Come to Southend

Veolia and Southend-on-Sea City Council have joined forces to tackle the issue of litter on the seafront with their newly launched “Just Bin It” campaign promoting a cleaner and more environmentally friendly Southend-on-Sea with talking bins and glow-in-the-dark signs.

Read More

Oxygen Takes Over Base Jump Site in Rayleigh

OXYGEN Indoor Activity Parks is coming to Rayleigh, Essex this summer taking over the Base Jump site that closed on June 5th

Read More

The Iconic Fives Records Issues closure warning

The Iconic "Five Records" in Leigh Broadway pleas for more local customers to keep it open.

Read More

Council announces extra support to help residents through cost-of-living crisis

A package of initiatives to continue to help local people through the cost-of-living crisis has been announced by the council, with a four-point plan focussed on helping those that need it most.

Read More

Illegal cigarettes and tobacco seized from Southend shops

Southend-on-Sea City Council’s Trading Standards Team in collaboration with Essex Police have carried out raids on retail premises in central Southend-on-Sea, seizing large quantities of illegal tobacco products.

Read More