SOUTHEND: Local business figures bare all for charity

Twenty-four leading Southend business women and men have brazenly revealed their naked ambition – to raise money for a leading local breast cancer charity. They shed their inhibitions – and their clothes – to pose naked for a 2011 calendar called Risqué Business, with all the profits going to Southend Hospital Charitable Foundation’s Bosom Pals [...]

GREAT WAKERING: Police want help to trace church vandals

Police are investigating an attack on an 11th century church in Great Wakering, which took place at some point on Thursday October 7th. Eight windows at St Nichols Church, New Road, were smashed with stones and conkers, causing approximately £3,000 worth of damage. Neighbourhood constable Pc Steve Thomas said: “You have to ask yourself what kind [...]

SOUTHEND: Police appeal following assault

Police in Southend are appealing for any information following an assault on a teenager. The incident happened on Monday 18th October 2010 at 3:30pm in the stairwell of Mirror Steps in Woodgrange Drive. PC Craig Davis said: “The suspect demanded the teenager’s bag but the victim ignored this and went to walk off but she [...]

LEIGH: Man suffers serious eye injury in pub attack

A vicious assault – by what’s thought to be a regular drinker at the Elms pub in Leigh – has left a man with a serious eye injury. At around 8.40pm last night (Thur, Oct 14th), the 38-year-old man was apparently “glassed” inside the pub on the London Road. The man was found collapsed outside [...]

OLYMPICS 2012: Hadleigh event pricing revealed

Organisers have revealed there will be two prices for tickets for Hadleigh’s Mountain Biking event at the 2012 Olympics. Tickets will be priced at £20 and £45 for the events, which takes place on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th August 2012. A new temporary Mountain Bike course will be created within Hadleigh Farm, and work [...]

League 2: Tilson & Brush unveiled at Lincoln

As Longpier.com exclusively revealed on our Twitter feed on Sunday, ex-Southend United boss Steve Tilson has been unveiled as the new Lincoln City manager.  His assistant at Roots Hall for so many years – Paul Brush – becomes his number two at Sincil Bank. Tilson, 44, was put on “gardening leave” by Blues’ chairman Ron [...]

AREA WIDE: What will happen to ‘Cycle Southend’?

There’s a question mark hanging over the long term future of ‘Cycle Southend‘, after the government confirmed it will be axing national umbrella body ‘Cycling England’. In the past two and a half years ‘Cycling England’ has provided funding for a whole range of bike schemes which have been administered by the Council’s ‘Cycle Southend’ [...]

SOUTHEND: Human rights activist to visit town

Nationally-respected human rights activist Doreen Lawrence OBE will launch Black History Month in Southend with a keynote speech this Friday (15th October). Mrs Lawrence’s son Stephen, 18, was murdered in a race attack in Eltham, south London in April 1993 and has since devoted her life to human rights and combating racial injustice. She will [...]

SOUTHEND: New university digs to open

The University of Essex’s new student accommodation in Southend will be officially opened at a special ceremony tomorrow (15 October). The 561-room University Square development is a vibrant new addition to the Southend skyline and offers high quality accommodation to students. The Chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Tim Melville-Ross has [...]

AREA WIDE: Busy period for Southend area police

Police in the Southend borough have been kept busy over the past couple of days, with a number of arrests for crimes across the area. – A man has been arrested following a police raid on a property in Albany Avenue in Westcliff in the early hours of Tuesday, October 12,. The man, a 39-year-old [...]

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