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%ballot(1586) AMBITIOUS road improvement projects in Southend is nearing completition.

UP TO 300 college staff will strike tomorrow in a dispute over pay and pensions.

WITH all the roadworks, renovations and revamps taking place in Southend, it is easy to forget Warrior Square is undergoing a massive makeover too.

THOSE who worked and worshipped alongside a Leigh woman found murdered in Hong Kong have paid tribute to her compassion and selflessness.

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 21-year-old woman in Southend.

TWO cars were involved in a crash near to Chalkwell train station.

TWO homes in a village lost their phone lines for a fortnight after a school bus hit a telegraph pole.

BATTLE-HARDENED residents are steeling themselves for another fight to protect green belt land from development.

A DEVASTATED woman has appealed to thieves who used a small child to steal her late grandmother’s handbag to give it back.

ESSEX University students will be forced to pay £9,000 a year in tuition fees from 2012.

SEA water in Southend has been praised for its quality.

RESIDENTS can get help filling out their Census forms at a special stall.

SOUTHEND hospital’s chief executive prides herself on being hands on, and her new role certainly won’t change her.

A 16-YEAR-old girl was punched in the face in an unprovoked attack as she travelled on a bus.

PLANS to introduce pay and display parking to residential seafront roads in Southend have been put on hold, days after they were announced.

POLICE want to speak to this man in connection with a series of distressing phone calls received by a young woman.

A WOMAN shouted racist abuse at an elderly man as he walked down the street.

THE LEASE agreement for Southend airport has been given the final seal of approval from councillors.

DETECTIVES want to interview these men following a sex attack in Southend.

A MAN has been charged by police in Hong Kong with the murder of a woman from Leigh.