Well done to the guys and girls at Odeon Southend, and thanks for a lovely night… of queuing. Valentine’s night is notoriously busy for cinemas, and the premiere of the Simon Pegg / Nick Frost comedy “Paul”  just happened to fall on the same night. So, on a predictably busy night, some bright spark elected [...]

Do you own an iPhone, Android Smartphone, high-end Nokia or Windows Mobile phone? Then you can help to build-up a real-time map of Southend. Waze is a social GPS application that has a big following in the US, and is now over here. The idea is simple. Drive around with this app running on your [...]

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 [...]

According to reports in the Sun, former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is looking to buy herself a place at a seaside town in the UK.  Favourite locations include Bournemouth, Brighton, Blackpool and Morecambe Bay. Sadly, not a mention of our own Sunny Southend though. Pam, if you’re reading, and we know you’re an avid reader [...]

In probably the most pointless post we’ve ever made, we’ve been asked to alert our loyal readers that, err, it’s snowing. Yes – that’s right – we’ve had reported sightings of white stuff falling and settling on surfaces, in turn turning those surfaces a white, snowy colour. As a real insult to your intelligence, here’s [...]