Colchester's Mercury Theatre has announced the launch of their first festival for creative talent. The Mercury Creatives Festival, which will be held on Saturday, August 9, is the first of its kind ...

A NEW support service is launching in Essex for people affected by suicide. Mid and North East Essex Mind, in partnership with Suffolk Mind, will provide a free Bereaved by Suicide support service. In ...

A successful weekend of free, family-friendly activities took place in Colchester last weekend. The annual Festival of Fun was held on July 5 and 6 at Colchester Sports Park and Colchester Leisure ...

Resident doctors will go on strike for five continuous days later this month in their dispute with the Government over pay, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said. Announcing strike dates ...

Jim Goldie is “reasonably confident” American Affair will still make the Breeders’ Cup after he was forced to rule his stable star out of the Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes at York.

Sir Paul McCartney has paid tribute to his “dear friend” and “incredible” artist Sir Brian Clarke after his death aged 71.

Effigies of migrants in a boat have been placed on a loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, prompting condemnation and calls for the display to be removed ahead of the pyre being lit.

Christian Horner has been sacked as Red Bull team principal. Horner’s dismissal comes 17 months after he was accused by a female colleague of “inappropriate behaviour”. Horner was twice exonerated of ...

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art will comprise more than 200 objects including garments, accessories, jewellery and paintings.

Exhibition co-curator Christopher Riopelle, the Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, said: “More than any of his contemporaries, Renoir was committed to chronicling ...

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has cancelled the widening scheme planned for the A12 between Colchester and Chelmsford which is used by ...

The war started after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage. Most of the hostages have been released in earlier ceasefires. Israel’s offensive in ...