German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has ordered the country’s parliament to be dissolved and set new elections for February 23 in the wake of the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing ...

Soap supremo Sir Phil Redmond says that “courage has gone out of broadcasting” in recent years, and suggested that TV watchdog rules should be broken more often. TV writer Sir Phil, who created ...

A police probe has been launched after a woman reported she was sexually assaulted by two men in the Sunrooms2 nightclub.

A prison officer has been arrested after she was allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate. Footage of the guard and male prisoner was shared with prisoners at HMP Five Wells, Northamptonshire, the ...

The former world number one served a one-month ban after a positive test for the angina medication trimetazidine.

The victim reported being approached by two unknown men near Harry Ramsden’s, in Old Steine, around 3.30am on Saturday.

Essex Police's Stolen Vehicle Intelligence Unit (SVIU) have recovered £13.5 million of stolen vehicles and parts across 2024.

A Nasa spacecraft which made the closest-ever approach to the sun is safe and “operating normally”, the space agency said. On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the ...

FIREFIGHTERS work hard to put out a fire in the roof of a pub in Essex, with more crews requested due to the size of the blaze.

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo, despite vehement protests by the governing party’s politicians. The move further deepens the ...

Researchers called for the widespread adoption of services that allow patients to self-refer without a GP consultation.

A general election which marked the end of 14 years of successive Conservative governments, a series of shock health announcements from the royal family and riots across the country sparked by the ...