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  • Don't miss Monday's Echo...

    Four pages on the Blues' financial woes including the latest reaction to Steve Tilson's departure Find out about the 18-year-old who posed as a lord to defraud the bank he was working for Man accused of murdering a man outside Priory

  • Southend Moonlight Colourthon raises thousands

    HUNDREDS of fundraisers dressed in bright costumes and completed a night-time half-marathon in Southend to raise £142,000 for charity. More than 1,200 people set off from Chalkwell Park at 8pm on Saturday to walk or jog their way along a 13-mile route

  • Families enjoy Basfest

    TENS of thousands of revellers flocked to Gloucester Parkin Basildon this weekend for the county’s biggest free music festival. Families came out in force as the sunny weather helped make the 14th annual Basfest the most successful ever.

  • Tilson to leave Blues

    SOUTHEND United manager Steve Tilson has been placed on gardening leave by the club. Tilson, who has been in charge of Blues since November 2003, was told of the decision at a meeting earlier today. And Southend chairman Ron Martin admitted

  • Development blueprint for town out, so have your say

    RESIDENTS are being urged to have their say about the future of their town. Southend Council is asking for people’s views about its Southend central area action plan and development management policies. These will become part of the local development

  • Hero saves neighbour from house fire in Benfleet

    A HERO dragged his elderly neighbour to safety from her burning home in Benfleet. The actions of Graham Howett, 44, saved the 67-year-old woman’s life when the blaze broke out at her home in Malwood Avenue early on Sunday morning (July 4).

  • Dementia patient too confused to have X-rays, inquest is told

    A MAN who fractured his hip and wrist in a fall at a care home died at Southend Hospital, an inquest heard. Noel Allen, 79, of Rose Martha Court, in Leigh, was admitted to Southend Hospital on January 4, He was suffering from a fractured right wrist