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Leader targets swing voters in Kent and Essex while shadow chancellor makes vow on taxes and spending

Hill, who had a disastrous outing last time out at Brands Hatch, predictably converted his pole position into the race lead with his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, while new-for-this-weekend team-mate Bobby Thompson surged from fifth to third behind championship leader Ash Sutton’s Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford…

Ford Ride will have an impact on a few London and Essex roads and routes this weekend

Exclusive: Hundreds of asylum seekers have left or been moved out of RAF Wethersfield and the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ already this year as costs spiral

In thrall to a character who may not truly exist any more, the Labour leader kicked off his election campaign in Purfleet, says author Tim Burrows

The Observer had been to the quiet Essex village before, in 1965. What had changed, what changes lay in wait?

The Aurora Borealis has been spotted in Whitley Bay on the north east coast, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Wokingham in Berkshire.

Smile London & Essex has secured a new site three times bigger than its last one

Blur + Oasis x Sonic Youth = one hell of a racket if Thurston Moore's remix of Essex Dogs is anything to go by