This weekend, Old Leigh played host to the Leigh Folk Festival. although it was a swelteringly hot day on Sunday, the crowds turned out in force to watch a day of free live music, street theatre, dancing, concerts, comedy and a parade. If you’re interested, there’s a small selection of photos of the 2010 Leigh [...]

Another day, another iPhone launch! Queues started forming well before 6am outside the Southend o2 store for today’s launch of the Apple iPhone 4. At at 7am, the queue already numbers 50. Update: By 8am, queues continues to grow to at least 150. o2 staff came to inform those beyond a certain point, by our [...]

Live from the Freedom of Southend Parade, Southend High Street, 17 June 2010. The 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, back from their third tour of duty in Afganistan are currently marching down Southend High Street, being cheered by thousands of locals. The troops have just been inspected by the Mayor, the Deputy Colonel of [...]

Crowds are gathering in Southend High Street for this afternoon’s parade to welcome home soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglican Regiment, back from their third tour of duty in Afganistan. Crowds started gathering at around 11am, with many waving the Union Jack. The parade is expected to start at 1230. The scene from [...]

Today, the 15th of June 2010 marks a historic day for radio broadcasting, and it all happened here in Essex. Many Southenders will remember the birth of the first local radio station for Southend-on-Sea as Essex Radio, back in September 1981, broadcasting from Clifftown Road, but the first real radio station from Essex, was MZX, [...]

Locals in Leigh-on-Sea wondering what the commotion in the Eastwood Boulevard / Cavendish Gardens at the moment, note that two fire engines from Southend station are in attendance at a fire on waste ground off Nelson Road, next to the old Albany Laundry site. Smoke is billowing from what looks like a blue hut or [...]

Little Havens Children’s Hospice in Thundersley needs your vote  as it goes head to head with other Lottery-funded projects from across the UK in the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards 2010. The National Lottery Awards are an annual search to find the UK s favourite Lottery-funded projects, and Little Havens Children’s Hospice is one [...]