It can’t have escaped your notice, but the people of Essex are today voting in the General and Local Elections. We’ve checked in with a couple of polling stations in the Southend West constituency, and are told that turnout is good – higher than in previous elections. The scene at one polling station in Leigh-on-Sea [...]

Google has just rolled out an upgrade to their controversial mapping service. In the Summer of 2009, a special Google car, equipped with state of the art cameras, roamed around Southend taking pictures of our town. Those images are now live, and by typing an address into maps.google.co.uk , you’ll be able to see and [...]

Doing our bit for citizen jornalism, we’re just back from the scene of what seems to be a fairly major fire on London Road, Leigh-on-Sea. It seems that the blaze has hit the showroom of Mad Dogs & Englishmen at 1345 London Road, Leigh-on-Sea, and Just Bikes at 1339 London Road, Leigh-on-Sea. As of 19:55 [...]

Whale sited off Southend Pier – Believed to be connected to the northern bottle-nosed whale that sadly died on 21st January during an attempt to move the stricken creature from Battersea.