The Latest Breaking News from Harwich

With unique views, fascinating history and opportunities for wildlife-spotting, taking a small boat across a river or to an island can be a holiday highlight

Marten and her rapist boyfriend Gordon spent 53 days on the run with baby Victoria amid a nationwide search

Marten and her partner, Mark Gordon, took a long taxi ride through the night to evade authorities, an Old Bailey jury is told

When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children – mostly from Jewish families – would arrive in Britain via the same process.

Police confirm arrest of 31-year-old, after a mother left a family assessment centre with two infants on Tuesday

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a woman in Harwich.

Mum Nicola Frost was killed when her Suzuki car was hit near her Harwich home by a delivery driver who fell asleep at the wheel despite stopping for coffee loaded with sugar

The new rule comes into effect on November 1

Harwich memorial commemorates rescue of 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children from Nazi regime