Essex news

• Microsoft pulls out of UK's largest AI data centre

  18-10-2026 18:46 via BBC News
  
  Tech firm Nscale says it is still committed to building the site in Essex.
  
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• PC sacked for speeding 75 times in two months

  14-11-2026 16:01 via BBC News
  
  Jake Lay-Flurrie demonstrated "a repeated failure to follow the rules", says Essex chief constable.
  
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• Southend sign ex-Spurs defender McKnight

  14-11-2026 15:17 via BBC News
  
  Southend United sign former Tottenham defender Maxwell McKnight on a one-year contract with the option of a further year.
  
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• England boxer missed Worlds over sex-test mix-up

  14-11-2026 08:43 via BBC News
  
  George Francis was left “broken” after he was banned from competing at the Under-19 World Championships because his team did not organise a sex verification test to prove he is male.
  
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• Students worried about university staffing cuts

  14-11-2026 07:38 via BBC News
  
  The BBC speaks to students at one of Anglia Ruskin University's four campuses.
  
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• Town heals after asylum hotel protests but scars run deep

  14-11-2026 07:34 via BBC News
  
  Prosecutions against anti-asylum seeker protests come to a close and the Bell Hotel is up for sale.
  
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• Why do ram-raid attacks happen in clusters?

  14-11-2026 07:25 via BBC News
  
  High Street trading is difficult enough without added problems of theft and robbery, says a mayor.
  
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• University aims to save money with job cuts

  13-11-2026 13:42 via BBC News
  
  Drops in the number of foreign students are being blamed on new rules about family members.
  
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• Boy died from multiple injuries in Cyprus hotel fall

  13-11-2026 11:05 via BBC News
  
  An Essex coroner describes Jaxon Foster's death as "particularly tragic" as he opens an inquest.
  
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• Essex town becomes first to twin with Ukraine

  13-11-2026 09:01 via BBC News
  
  Burnham-on-Crouch is beginning a new relationship with the Ukrainian town of Yaremche.
  
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• Demolition plan for £2m 'white elephant' lagoon

  13-11-2026 07:55 via BBC News
  
  The Labour-led council is considering spending £800,000 to return the lagoon to a natural beach.
  
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• Air ambulance gusts left woman seriously injured

  13-11-2026 07:14 via BBC News
  
  A woman filming the air ambulance taking off was blown off her feet by its downwash, a report says.
  
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• Teen pianist says music helped him through cancer

  13-11-2026 07:03 via BBC News
  
  Felix is partially blind after having eye cancer and is studying music at Colchester Institute.
  
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• Derailed wagon was dragged through Barking station

  12-11-2026 15:09 via BBC News
  
  A derailed freight wagon was dragged for more than half a mile through an east London station.
  
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• Pedestrian seriously hurt by car running red light

  12-11-2026 10:57 via BBC News
  
  Essex Police is appealing for witnesses to the collision to come forward.
  
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• Watch: M25 workers' close call with stolen BMW

  12-11-2026 09:14 via BBC News
  
  A car smashes through a temporary motorway barrier, missing road workers by inches.
  
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• Multiple-vehicle crash causes M25 delays

  12-11-2026 09:04 via BBC News
  
  Police say six vehicles are involved in the early morning crash.
  
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• Nurse threatened to kill colleague, report finds

  12-11-2026 07:42 via BBC News
  
  Rupesh Patel said he would "hunt down" and "kill" his whole family, a panel says.
  
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• Reservoir water levels remain low despite hose ban

  12-11-2026 07:22 via BBC News
  
  Two lakes in Essex are at 37% of full capacity, a water company says.
  
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• Police hail new interim driving bans for suspects

  12-11-2026 07:18 via BBC News
  
  The bans are being imposed on suspected drug-drivers as a bail condition.
  
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• Monitoring team catches man looking at sex abuse

  11-11-2026 17:38 via BBC News
  
  Essex Police says a team works to ensure that registered sex offenders are not able to reoffend.
  
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• O'Sullivan and world champion Wu both lose

  11-11-2026 17:03 via BBC News
  
  Seven-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan suffers a 4-0 defeat by Shaun Murphy at the Champion of Champions tournament in Leicester.
  
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• Festival announces historic all-female headliners

  11-11-2026 16:42 via BBC News
  
  Organisers say the all-female headline acts announced as headliners is a "UK festival first".
  
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• Swimming pool in limbo as council rules out funds

  11-11-2026 13:53 via BBC News
  
  Campaigners want Southend-on-Sea City Council to save the facility at a primary school.
  
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• Southend boss Dyer to serve touchline ban

  11-11-2026 13:10 via BBC News
  
  Southend United manager Kieron Dyer and goalkeeping coach Anssi Jaakkola will serve touchline bans after they were sent off against Halifax Town.
  
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• Army medics practise warzone rescue operation

  11-11-2026 07:35 via BBC News
  
  Soldiers from Colchester demonstrate how they would patch up the wounded out in the field.
  
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• NHS trust improvements not good enough, MP says

  11-11-2026 07:33 via BBC News
  
  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is one of five getting extra support from the government.
  
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• Brand's £3k donation to victims' charity after rape

  11-11-2026 07:32 via BBC News
  
  A rape crisis centre says it received a donation in the disgraced entertainer's name in 2010.
  
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• Colchester beat Ipswich U21 on pens in EFL Trophy

  10-11-2026 23:17 via BBC News
  
  Brentford U21 and League One side Leicester City move into the knockout stages of the Jersey Mike's Trophy with vital victories.
  
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• Man in his 80s dies after car strikes pedestrians

  10-11-2026 18:32 via BBC News
  
  Police are appealing for any witnesses to contact them.
  
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