Labour-led Basildon Council votes to bring back weekly black bin collections in spring 2025. An independent politician says e-scooter rides are a "complete menace". Charity Shelter calls for more ...

Basildon councillors proposed trimming back the number of local authorities in the county from 15, to five. The Labour leader at the council, Gavin Callaghan, said it was an opportunity to take ...

Tyler Kerry, a labourer from Basildon, Essex, was discovered on Friday morning at the bottom of the lift shaft in the hotel he was staying at in Antalya. Mr Kerry’s uncle, Alex Price ...

BATTLE lines have been drawn by campaigning residents as they vow to fight against potential plans for 17,000 homes on green belt land across Basildon. “Say No To Building On Our Green Belt ...

A HUGE garden store in Basildon has gone up for sale after the troubled home-improvement chain Homebase collapsed into administration. The stricken firm has set a deadline of the end of next ...

Newly-qualified and student midwives at Basildon Hospital will feature in a fly-on-the-wall TV series about life on the maternity unit. The Young Midwives of Essex is an eight-part hybrid ...

Basildon council has revealed potential plans to acquire 150 apartments in Taylor Wimpey’s controversial Knights Reach development in Stone, near Dartford, to address its “urgent need” for ...

Those living on the Knights Estate in Basildon, Essex turned up at council offices to protest having previously been told they would need to be moved. The 18-home estate was built using a material ...