Oliver Grange, 24, will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court after admitting to murdering his mother in Clacton.

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Mental health nurse Sophie Gorden, who works at The Lakes in Colchester, was highly commended at the National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards.

Wormingford-based crisp company Fairfields Farm has won a string of accolades at the Business Awards UK and the Great British Food Awards.

A former Essex teaching assistant is stuck in the USA and facing huge medical bills as a rare illness leaves her paralysed from the neck down.

The red, black, and yellow striped reptile was seen outside a house on Grover Road.

Herts Police are upping patrols in an area after reports of a Rickmansworth house being egged over more than a month.

Trading standards has fined a Watford retailer operating a Nisa branded store for selling food “up to 18 days out of date”.

Residents remain divided on controversial boulders placed on The Green, Croxley Green, as a consultation deadline has been extended.

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