Essex Police is supporting a four‑week amnesty to remove specific types of blank‑firing guns from circulation. – The amnesty runs from 2 February to 27 February.
Weapons can be handed in anonymously at Grays, Southend, Chelmsford & Colchester Police Stations Counters.
National Highways’ Lower Thames Crossing, has a significant milestone for the project, are have begin the process of buying one of the world’s largest tunneling machines now under way – just days after funding for the scheme was announced in the budget last month.
From Sunday 14 December 2025, you’ll be able to pay as you go with a contactless card or device at another 50 National Rail stations across the South East. Including expanding to 20 new stations on the Greater Anglia network, across Hertfordshire and Essex, from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport, Chelmsford, Southend Victoria and Witham.
