Hamas says it will free Alexander Troufanov, Yair Horn and Sagui Dekel-Chen; Israel is set to release 369 Palestinian prisoners.

A grandfather who has donated tens of thousands of pounds to a cancer charity said fundraising helped him deal with the death ...

Foster carers will receive a 16% average increase in fees to match the rate of inflation, Essex County Council has said. The ...

Significant progress has been made on a cancer centre due to open at the end of the year, those behind it have said. The ...

Lord Dannatt says up to 40,000 UK troops would be needed for such a mission and "we just haven't got that number available".

After 10 years in the making, a long-awaited stand at a football club is set to officially open. Northampton Town Football ...

A councillor has been reported to police after he allegedly admitted to colleagues a historical sexual claim made against him ...

Lord Sugar himself lives in the county, in Chigwell, and based his Amstrad headquarters in Brentwood. Campbell, 47, who won ...

A new woodland highlighting the importance of stag beetles has been planted. Green-fingered volunteers took part in a tree ...

Campaigners are celebrating after a 120-year-old oak tree - which was due to be chopped down - earned a six-week reprieve.

A retired kitchen fitter who stabbed an 86-year-old widow to death regularly walked a dog past the scene of his crime for ...

A century after her first novel was published, an exhibition is set to show a "whole other side" to the colourful character ...