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 [...]

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 [...]

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’ [...]

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 [...]

WESTCLIFF: New powers used to close brothel

New powers to close down brothels have been used for the first time in the UK – during a raid in Westcliff. UK Border Agency officials, along with a team from Essex Police and Southend Council, entered the property at 494a London Road in Westcliff on Thursday afternoon (7 Oct). One foreign national was arrested [...]

SOUTHEND: Youngsters prepare to grill politicians

Young people from Southend are gearing up to put their locally-elected representatives on the spot. Their inquisitive minds will be seeking answers to hot contemporary issues at a special Councillors’ Question Time tomorrow (Wed 13th). The event, arranged by Southend Youth Council, will take place on 10am at Civic Centre, Southend and is being staged [...]

YOUR VIEW: ‘The Only Way is Essex’

So did you see ITV2′s much hyped ‘The Only Way is Essex’?  Many of you have been getting in touch with longpier.com to add your thoughts about the show – and now you can start the debate right here. The ten part series – which started on Sunday night – has divided opinion so far.  [...]

SOUTHEND: Fringe Festival to change format

Southend’s annual Fringe Festival is to change dramatically next year, Longpier.com understands. The month-long festival – which has been running for two years – will no longer be spread out over June, but instead over “two or three weekends” throughout the year. The eclectic range of events ran alongside the bigger ‘Southend Festival’ – which [...]

VIDEO: Southend’s offering for London 2012

In the first of a regular weekend series, Longpier takes a look at videos, created in and around the Southend area. They could range from historical clips to the very latest videos, shot just hours ago. This week, we take a look at what Southend can offer the world’s best sporting teams when they descend [...]

SOUTHEND: Hospital appoints new Chief Executive

Southend University Hospital has announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive. Following an intensive selection process, the Trust’s board of governors approved the appointment of Jacqueline Totterdell as the successor to John Gilham, the Trust’s current chief executive, when he retires next March. Currently chief operating officer and deputy chief executive of The Hillingdon [...]

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