An eight-year-old boy has died after being shot in the head and face at a farm, with a man in his 60s under arrest on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. Emergency services were called at ...

The injured people included eight children who were seriously hurt, and two of them were in a life-threatening condition after inhaling smoke.

THE Dutch Quarter is one of the oldest parts of Colchester. Just off the High Street it mainly includes a series of core streets including Maidenburgh Street, West Stockwell Street, East Stockwell ...

A group of dads who all have children with special educational needs, are completely a 20km charity walk for charity.

Arnie Dawson, 21, will be jetting off to Texas on October 5 for a huge boxing match where he will be one of seven boxers fighting for the UK.

Pat McFadden again urged British nationals to leave Lebanon immediately, saying commercial flights were still available.

Pope Francis has demanded that sexually abusive clergy be judged and their bishops stop covering up their crimes as he ended a troubled visit to Belgium by responding to the outrage over the scandal ...

The animal rights group wrote to Sir Mark Rowley after police dogs were ‘burned’ and ‘hit with bricks’ during UK riots this summer.

Voters gave up on the Conservatives’ “bickering”, James Cleverly has said during his campaign to become the party’s leader. The shadow home secretary, who first became a minister during Theresa May’s ...

More than 100 Ukrainian drones have been shot down over Russia, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since the start of the ...

As autumn starts, there are so many walks that display the natural beauty in Colchester and the surrounding areas - here are five we picked out. Dedham Vale sits on the Essex and Suffolk border.

A former spy and his daughter, who were poisoned by the deadly nerve agent Novichok, will not give evidence at the Russian-state Salisbury poisonings inquiry over fears for their safety.