Jim Worsdale

Former Echo editor

Latest articles from Jim Worsdale

'Why have our beach huts been left to fall into disrepair?'

IT’LL be very clear and very obvious to regular Echo readers that after my many years being privileged and allowed to air my personal views here each and every week, I’m an oldie, long retired from challenging and thoroughly enjoyable working life and long a champion in print of our south-east Essex and especially my Southend birthplace.

JIM WORSDALE: Terror of Thames Estuary timebomb

IT’S a terrifying, utterly terrifying, thought that anMP has raised this week, reminding us of the explosives-filled sunken wreck of the RichardMontgomery in the Thames off Shoebury and questioning whether it might be a target for terrorists.

JIM WORSDALE: Foulness needs all our support

THE centenary anniversary of a very significant event in the history of south-east Essex seems to have slipped by with little or no public acknowledgement or attention. It was on July 13, in 1915, the Ministry of Defence took over Foulness Island.